Myth: 1980s English rock band, Killing Joke, took their name from the Alan Moore Batman graphic nove
Myth: 1980s English rock band, Killing Joke, took their name from the Alan Moore Batman graphic novel of the same name While that would be totaly cool from an 80s pop culture perspective, it’s actually false since Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland was published in 1988, and Killing Joke (the rock band) was formed about a decade prior (1978). When asked about the origin of the band name, Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke’s vocalist and keyboardist) once explained: “the killing joke is like when people watch something like Monty Python on the television and laugh, when really they’re laughing at themselves. It’s like a soldier in the first world war. He’s in the trench, he knows his life is gone and that within the next ten minutes he’s gonna be dead … and then suddenly he realises that some cunt back in Westminster’s got him sussed - ‘What am I doing this for? I don’t want to kill anyone, I’m just being controlled’. The band itself is still kickin’. Check their site: killingjoke.com. *Image used without permission from http://www.godsandalcoves.com/bands/killing-joke/gallery/ -- source link
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