right-wing rock songs // Richard Grant

[Mark Brawner]

The Great Quail responded to :

>>:How many other rock songs quote directly from Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
>> --(Xanadu, if that's rock?)

With:

> I assume you mean the Olivia Newton John stuff,

How funny: I took this rather as a slag on Rush.

Quail:

>but there's actually an epic Rush song from the late 1970s that uses
Coleridge's "Kublai Khan" poem much the same way Steve Harris and the
lads use "Rime."

Yuppers, and it's also called 'Xanadu.'  Dig out your 'A Farewell to
Kings' album from 1977.  There's probably some weed residue still in
there from when you used to clean your stash in the gatefold. :)