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Just figured I'd share that my first time coming across this thread and reading people's interpretations of the lyrics to "White Room" the song happened to be playing on the radio.
I did for Jeff Wayne's War Of The World'sI hope you did it in a Richard Burton voice
The original Kilroy was here originated in ww2. My dad, who was a ww2 vet, told me about it. In ww2, a g.i. Named Kilroy would write “Kilroy was here” and draw a small cartoon figure head everywhere he went in the war. He apparently got around a lot. It quickly became a “thing” if you happened to spot one of his “tags”. My dad actually saw some of them. It has since entered the realm of urban legend, but that was the origin.I had to 'splain the concept behind Styx's Kilroy was Here album to my wife, and how it is an allegory to George Orwell's 1984. That made for a long tense car ride.
The original Kilroy was here originated in ww2. My dad, who was a ww2 vet, told me about it. In ww2, a g.i. Named Kilroy would write “Kilroy was here” and draw a small cartoon figure head everywhere he went in the war. He apparently got around a lot. It quickly became a “thing” if you happened to spot one of his “tags”. My dad actually saw some of them. It has since entered the realm of urban legend, but that was the origin.
Interesting how things get recycled and morph into totally different things. I remember tipper gore and her pmrc hearings before congress. Maybe there was even an older Kilroy was here before ww2.in the Styx story, Killroy, or Robert Orin Charles Killroy, was a Rock n Roller, jailed by the evil Dr. Righteous. The album as a whole was a dig at the PMRC for trying to force record companies and music groups to use Explicit Lyric labels. (which eventually succeeded)
Okay.
Somebody help me with ZZ Top's "Jesus Just Left Chicago" please. 30 years ago my school teacher was "splaining" songs and used American Pie. Then when we asked about Jesus Just Left Chicago we could tell he was BS-ing.