| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The story goes that Plant and Page met up with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Johns place in N.Y. after Led Zep had just finished a 14 state 23 night concert swing so after a brief dinner at a restaurant near Johns they all headed to his pad were they took acid smoked dope and drank heavily.It was about 3am and John had long since retired for the evening and Yoko being the bizarre one that She was offered Plant and Page some smack, well being the two party animals they were never turned down a good high, Of coarse said yes. They did I heard was a huge amount of Heroin and were buzzing like a hornet's nest when Yoko said that the heroin was laced with "Rat Poison" and it was intended for Paul McCartney and his wife Linda as you all know there was no love loss between the two couples since it was rummerd that Yoko was the sole person responsible for The Beatles undoing. Anyway Page tried desperately to wake up John, But he was out cold. Now this is the story as I heard from a source very,very close to Robert Plant about the writing of Stairway to Heaven. Plant and Page were both so freaked out about what Ono had told them that they began to pray to the only figure in the Lennon home that remotely resembled a God they could find witch happened to be a very large stature of Buddha! They were so certain the end was that night they both huddled around the stature and began chanting and filling the stomach of the Buddha statue with $100.00 dollar bills and asking for the key to The Stairway to Heaven and they wrote it all down for a last farewell to there family's, And a super classic was born! Of coarse there was no poison and Yoko to this day will still take credit for (as She put it provoking one of the greatest songs ever writing!Out of two guys who thought they had punched there last ticket! A trip Ha but that's how it all went down! A long night for Led Zeppelins front Men, Page and Plant,But all in all a good one indeed!! Dave |
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| Styx – Mr. Roboto Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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WWII Kilroy Was Here legends The Legends of "Kilroy Was Here" WWII Kilroy Was Here legends Horizontal Line There was one person who led or participated in every combat, training or occupation operation during WWII and the Korean War. This person could always be depended on. GI's began to consider him the "super GI." He was one who always got there first or who was always there when they left. I am, of course, referring to Kilroy Was Here. Somehow, this simple graffiti captured the imagination of GI's everywhere they went. The scribbled cartoon face and words showed up everywhere - worldwide. Stories (some even true) abound. Legend #1: This Legend of how "Kilroy was here" starts is with James J. Kilroy, a shipyard inspector during WWII. He chalked the words on bulkheads to show that he had been there and inspected the riveting in the newly constructed ship. To the troops in those ships, however, it was a complete mystery – all they knew for sure was that he had "been there first." As a joke, they began placing the graffiti wherever they (the US forces) landed or went, claiming it was already there when they arrived. Kilroy became the US super-GI who always got there first – wherever GI's went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places. It was said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arch de Triumphe, and scrawled in the dust on the moon. An outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill who were there for the Potsdam conference. The first person to use it was Stalin. He emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?" Trolley being delivered Click image for larger view Image thanks to Brian Fitzgerald (Kilroy grandson) WWII UDT (Under Water Demolition - later Navy Seals) divers swam ashore on Japanese held islands in the Pacific to prepare the beaches for the coming landings by US troops. They were sure to be the first GIs there! On more than one occasion, they reported seeing "Kilroy was here" scrawled on make shift signs or as graffiti on enemy pillboxes. They, in turn, often left similar signs for the next incoming GIs. The tradition continued in every US military theater of operations throughout and following WWII. Boston American, December 23, 1946 Click image for larger view Image thanks to Brian Fitzgerald (Kilroy grandson) In 1946 the Transit Company of America held a contest offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the "real" Kilroy. Almost forty men stepped forward to make that claim, but James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters to help prove his authenticity. James Kilroy won the prize of the trolley car which he gave it to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up in their front yard for a playhouse. |
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