Rock 'n' Roll Changes the World
Posted by Fraser M on 7 August 2008 - 2:15pm.
After hearing the Marillion song 'Out of this World' about Donald Campbell's ill-fated attempt on the water speed record, underwater surveyor Bill Smith was inspired to discover the wreck of the Bluebird and to retreive the body of Campbell from Coniston Water.
Recently, the first pictures of the restored Bluebird have been released: http://snipurl.com/3cbvj
Any other interesting examples of where songs by popular beat combos have inspired events in the real world?
Charity singles are excluded!
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The sweets..
mighty Opus "Block buster" sadly failed in it's Titular attempt to prevent the release of Phil Collin's bio-pic of the leader fo the great train robbers.....
The Berlin Wall
I remember a contemporary report just before the Berlin Wall came down which claimed that the East German side was daubed with the huge slogan, 'A rush and a push and the land is ours.'
This was assumed to be a rallying cry by a suppressed young German poet, until someone pointed out that it had been lifted from The Smiths.
Surely
the work of David Hasselhoff was instrumental in the fall of the Berlin Wall?!
Nelson Mandela.
Free. Well done, Mr Dammers.