When I was a kid, music was made by superheroes. Many of them only appeared as stick figures in an arena but it was the music and the performance that made them larger than life. Albums were pressed on vinyl back then and there were usually added bonuses with the records – like full pull out posters, unreleased singles, liner notes from the band and lyrics so that you could sing along. To my parents, the rock stars were more than men, they were far more sinister. They were devil worshippers, blood-spitting antichrists and evil incarnate.
There were countless times I was sat down by my local pastor and he would speak to me about listening to bands like Black Sabbath, AC/DC, STYX, RUSH, and KISS.
Each band had something to do with the devil. I was told that KISS was an acronym for ‘KNIGHTS IN SATAN’S SERVICE’ and when I called him on the nonsense say on that none of the band has said this to be true, he countered with “Isn’t Satan the father of all lies and wasn’t it a KISS that betrayed Jesus?”
I couldn’t even listen to a Led Zeppelin album without being told that listening to it backwards would give you a secret satanic message. I tried it on “Stairway to Heaven” and it did have a satanic message that sounded like “Here’s to my sweet Satan.” I was also told that holding the album covert of Led Zeppelin IV to a mirror would create the face of Satan in the rocks.
This type of rumors about album covers was also said about the Beatles ‘Abbey Road’, The Eagles ‘Hotel California’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. The rumor about ‘Thriller’ was that the UPC code on the cover of ‘Thriller’ was actually Michael Jackson’s Telephone Number. People would use a California area code to try and call ‘Neverland Ranch’. What they got instead was a beauty salon.
The Eagles ‘Hotel California’ album and the ‘Abbey Road’ album were designed by a colleague of mine named John Kosh. The rumors about the albums, according to Kosh, are that on the ‘Hotel California’ album what you are seeing is the Beverly Hills Hotel.
However, the rumor is that standing on the balcony in one of the shots is Anton LaVey the black pope of the Church of Satan.
There is also another shot of the courtyard where we see a janitor that looks like he is asleep and propped up by a mop – the rumor is that the janitor was either a ghost or a dead man propped up for the shot.
The next album cover designed by Kosh was the ‘Abbey Road’ album. The album is notorious because it doesn’t have a title on it, and it appears that The Beatles are in a funeral precession from Lennon being the preacher, to Ringo Starr as the funeral director, Paul McCartney as the shoeless corpse and George Harrison as the grave digger. There is also the Volkswagen bug that has 28IF on the license plate meaning McCartney would have been 28 IF he didn’t die in a rumored care crash and was replaced by a body double. KOSH said that everything about the Paul is dead clues is pure coincidence, however he did tell me that he was told by record executives to neither confirm or deny the ‘Paul is dead’ rumor.
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Subject: SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE 
Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:21 pm
