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Czech Prime Minister Influenced by AC/DC

The Obama administration's $2 trillion economic stimulus package might prove to be "the road to hell," the prime minister of the Czech Republic recently warned. When world leaders expressed surprise at his frank talk, the outspoken PM, Mirek Topolanek, revealed he's been consulting with a grown man in short pants and a schoolboy uniform: He'd just caught an AC/DC concert.

"Their cult song 'Highway to Hell' may have influenced me to use, in my very improvised speech, 'the road to hell,'" he told one newspaper. Hey, no need to apologize. We realize it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll.

The Czechs have a history of looking to rock music to explain the world. Some say the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989 was named after the Velvet Underground. After the fall of Communism, Vaclav Havel told his idol, Lou Reed, "Because of you, I am president." And Havel once asked another hero of his, the late Frank Zappa, to be a cultural consultant with the new government.

Well, for those who continue to rock, we salute you. Can we still call you "comrades"?

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Carlton W.Burgess

"Hells Bells" don"t hate the man, at least he has good taste in music, maybe our politicians could take lessons and get some well needed advise from the Rock-n-Roll world!!!!!

May 09 2009 at 11:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply