
The book talks about a group of people who went camping in a place called Wesh Summer Camp.
The song is famous for having one of the most famous guitars riffs and was played in the rock history and has a story behind it : the song tells a true history that happened on December 4th, 1971, when Deep Purple arrived in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones called "Rolling truck Stones thing" ) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino.
On the eve of the recording session a concert of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention was made at the theater and the casino during the show, the fire started in the middle of the synthesizer solo of "King Kong" when someone in the audience fired a flare gun at the ceiling, which is mentioned in verse "some stupid with a flare gun".Omayra Sanchez was a girl victim of Ruiz's Nevado volcano during a(AN)eruption in Armero, Colombia in 1985. She spent three days in the middle of rubble with her legs trapped between her dead family. When the paramedics cames to the place, they said that would be impossible to remove her from there, because they had to amputate her legs and had no experts on the place. Omayara showed stronger until the last moment of her life.
The photographer Frank Fournier, took a picture of Omayara that runed the world, and had a controversy about the indifference of the Colombian Government with respect to victims of disasters.The photo was published months after the dead of the girl.
Many see this image the beginning of what we now call globalization, because her agony was experienced in real time by television cameras from around the world.