Magic Carpet Ride

Magic Carpet Ride is a rock and roll song from Earth. The song was written by the 20th century humans John Kay and Rushton Moreve of the band Steppenwolf, and released in 1968. After it's release the song became one of that band's most popular songs.

Approximately 95 years after the song's release, Zefram Cochrane insisted on playing the song as the warp ship Phoenix took off from Cochrane's base in Montana for his first test of the ship's warp drive. (TNG movie Star Trek: First Contact).