'A plutonium rock band generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all.
Regular concertgoers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet—or more frequently around a completely different planet.'
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 'Disaster Area'