Listen To KEVIN DUBROW Singing SCORPIONS “Big City Nights”; One Of His Last Ever Recordings
Kevin DuBrow passed away in 2007 at the age of 52. Kevin was best known as the lead vocalist of
On this day in metal, January 10th, 1989 Metallica release “One”
The song is based on the idea of a soldier losing all of his limbs and jaw and unable to hear, speak, or see, set to a World War I backdrop.
I can’t remember anything
Can’t tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me
Now that the war is through with me
I’m waking up, I cannot see
That there’s not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh, please God, wake me
Partially based on the 1939 Dalton Trumbo novel, Johnny Got His Gun, One had started as a song James Hetfield had dreamt up, based on the notion of “just being a brain and nothing else,” before Cliff Burnstein suggested he read Trumbo’s book. The story of Joe Bonham, a good-looking, all-American boy encouraged to fight in World War I by his patriotic father, Bonham loses his legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose to a German shell. After coming to terms with his gruesome circumstances in hospital while surrounded by frankly horrified doctors and nurses, Bonham uses the only part of his physical being he is still able to control – his head – to tap out a message in Morse code: ‘Please kill me’. “James got a lot of input from that,” said drummer and co-writer Lars Ulrich.
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