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The story behind the Bulls' iconic player introductions

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Current Bulls PA announcer Tommy Edwards and his wife were at the Biograph movie theater, waiting for their picture to begin when he heard a song.

The background music being played before the movie was "Sirius" by The Alan Parsons Project. The first track on the band's sixth album that was released in 1982 caught Edwards' attention. To that point he had done introduced the Bulls' starting lineup to songs such as Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and the theme song from Miami Vice.

"They seemed to work OK but it just didn't really grab anybody," Edwards recalled. "So I'm listening to ('Sirius') and I'm kind of going through it in my head and I said, 'This could do it.