The enduring legacy of 'Sirius,' the Chicago Bulls' entrance anthem - ESPN

By the time Luc Longley was sitting on the Chicago Bulls' bench inside the United Center during the pregame introductions, lights off around him, the crescendo of the crowd rising, Longley's pregame routine was almost complete.

There was just one more step.

Once the opening notes of «Sirius,» a 1982 song by British rock band The Alan Parsons Project, filled the United Center to kick off the most famous introduction in the league's history, Longley's pregame routine was complete.

By the time former Bulls public address announcer Ray Clay introduced Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman, and arrived at, «The man in the middle, from New Mexico, 7-2, Luc Longley,» Longley knew he was set.

«I used 'Sirius' to bring myself into the moment of the game, into the moment of competition to be that alter ego of a good basketball player that you can't live in all the time,» Longley told ESPN. «You have to adopt that camouflage, or whatever you want to call armor going into the game because if you wear it all the time, you're not very much fun to be around.

»So, my device became 'Sirius.' It wasn't that I didn't hear it. It was the opposite. I immersed in it, and that was the trigger for me to be a basketball player while I was on the Bulls."

Thirty years after the Bulls set a then-NBA record by going 72-10 in the regular season, which ignited their second three-peat of the Michael Jordan era, Sirius and Chicago's introductions have lasted the test of time. It's still iconic. It's still relevant. It's still memorable. And it has crossed generations.

The story of «Sirius» is also the story of how music helped build the energy of the Bulls in the 1990s.

To the players who heard it at least 41 times a season as a member of the Bulls and to