Re: Holy Starship Batman!

[Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E6D7143BF932A1575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

> The first paying passengers were the members of Led Zeppelin, who 
> hopped aboard in July 1973. At the time, they were the biggest band in 
> the world, and they celebrated in standard fashion. They painted their 
> name across the fuselage, snorted cocaine with rolled-up hundreds and 
> treated the master suite like a pay-by-the-hour motel. In Cole's 
> words, the jet became ''a floating gin palace.'' Zeppelin's drummer, 
> John Bonham, known as Bonzo, was the resident loon -- ''He once tried 
> to open the plane's door over Kansas City because he had to pee,'' 
> remembers Suzee Carnel, one of the flight attendants -- and John Paul 
> Jones, the band's bassist-keyboardist, acted as piano man, 
> entertaining the revolving cast of hangers-on with pub songs like 
> ''I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.''