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ROCK 'N' ROLL CREATION
Megaphone
released 1977
INCLUDES
Rock 'N' Roll Creation (Suite)
a. When There Was Darkness
b. Rock 'N' Roll Creation
c. The Answer Is Clear
Young, Smug And Famous
Death On A Stick
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This was Tap's final album for Megaphone. This was
literally the closest that Tap has ever had to a "contractual obligation
album."
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Except for the title track, the album is a collection
of unused (and exceptionally shoddy) material that didn't make it to any
of Tap's previous few albums.
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The working title, and the title under which the
album was referred in This Is Spinal Tap, was THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SPINAL
TAP.
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The version of "Rock And Roll Creation" that became
a hit, and later appeared on two compilations, is a series of three snippets
from the suite. The sound-effects intro is from part a; the verses up to
the middle-eight (from "When there was darkness..." to "...the forces that
created me") are from part b; and the rest of the song, starting at the
beginning of the middle-eight, is a condensed version of part c.
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In 1997, this album finally went gold. According
to Tap's website, "A splinter faction of the Egyptian Coptic church recently
ordered 495,000 copies of [the] record, laboring under the mistaken impression
that "Gospel" was a new, audible, book of the bible. Coptic Bishop "Mikey"
Husein, who had argued against the purchase, said recently, 'This cacophonous
blasphemy has set back the course of Eastern Christendom at least a thousand
years.'"
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Despite the troubles surrounding the album, Tap supported
it by embarking on the Death On A Stick Tour.
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The 1985 edition of Inside Spinal Tap suggested
that the release date of 1977 is incorrect, and that the album actually
dates from sometime around 1971; however, due to the history behind this
album and the issues with Megaphone, this theory is completely illogical.
ROCK 'N' ROLL CREATION - single version
(Tufnel / St. Hubbins)
When there was darkness and the void was king
and ruled the elements
When there was silence and the hush was almost
deafening
Out of the emptiness (salvation!)
Salvation!
Rhythm and light and sound
Twas the rock and roll creation
Twas a terrible big bang
Twas the ultimate mutation
Ying was searching for his yang
And he looked and he saw that it was good
When I'm alone beneath the stars and feeling insignificant
I turn within to see the forces that created
me...
I look to the stars and the answer is clear
I look in the mirror and see what I fear
Tis the rock and roll creation
Tis the accident reversed
Tis the rolling of the ocean and the rocking
of the earth
And I looked and I saw that it was good!
