Fact #182170
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Issue No302 of DC Comics' magazine Our Army At War appears with its name changed for the first time to Sgt. Rock, recognising the fact that Rock has been the central character in the magazine for many years. The adventures of Sgt. Rock will inspire Andy Partridge to write his song Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me), released by XTC in 1980.
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Andy Partridge : Right, I'm standing up here and now, and saying this song embarrasses the shit out of me. Of all the tunes that I've written, that made it to tape, this makes me cringe the worse. It's not the music, that's solid enough. All the instruments in the track mesh nicely enough, but the lyrical sentiment, oh dear. It was supposed to be ironic, you know, nerdy comic fan imagines two dimensional hero can help him with his unsuccessful chat up technique. It did not work. It just came out limply crap. Virgin insisted it be included in this set, otherwise I'd gladly erase it from our history. We all make mistakes.
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