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Here's a lost hit from the band that was always changing corporation names: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." Just joking! If you don't understand why "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" shouldn't be on a lost hits blog, ask an adult.
Anyway, back in 1983, Jefferson Starship charted with the energetic rocker we're profiling in this entry: "Winds Of Change." The title was evocative of several other things that were going on at the time. It happened to be around the same time ABC aired the miniseries The Winds Of War. The title of the song and the miniseries both inspired a project I had at the time.
This was right when I started making up tasteless Sesame Street fanfic. At first, I came up with a storyline called "Sesame Street In Hell", in which all the characters were killed off pretty quickly. Then I came up with a new storyline called "The Winds Of Sesame Street." This storyline was much more elaborate, and it went on for at least a year. This was the one in which Big Bird's feathery tail was amputated and was found floating in outer space. Also in this storyline, Bert started a toilet paper factory. He-Man visited the show and was somehow chopped up into small pieces, prompting Gordon to put him back together with Scotch tape. Men At Work visited too, and they gave a concert where they used Grover's head as a drum.
I think I came up with the title for this storyline one windy day in early spring of that year when we were playing at the end of the street and found a pile of drywall someone had discarded. We used the drywall to draw pictures of Ernie and Bert on the street. We also wrote, "Mister Softee is a softhead," a reference to the ice cream truck that often came along.
Also around that time, a bratty neighborhood kid kept calling everyone an "Ernie-and-Bert-butt." I think he later went on to threaten to kill a local prosecutor and a judge.
