I first heard this song on the old album rockin’ Y-95 and it stuck out like a sore thumb. That’s because it came out of a Zeppelin song. “What the heck was that and why is it playing”? I thought. After another listen, which followed a Scorpions song I realized there was no chorus.

Although initially shocked, the song grew on me. The strange humanoid voice and heavy synth was even mesmerizing to my long haired friends wearing AC/DC t-shirts. That was surprising because there weren’t any distorted Angus-like guitars.

I not sure where I caught the video in this pre-MTV era, but I did. Gary’s Bowie-esque look and expressionless face seemed to say “I am the future”. He must have had some impact on the music world with this one-hit-you-know-what because suddenly heavy rockers like Def Leppard and Rush were adding swishy synthesizer parts to their tunes. They did though, stick to the convention of including a chorus in their songs.