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| Released = [[1988]] |
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| Last single = "[[Dr. Stein]]" <br /> (1988) |
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| Next single = "[[Kids of the Century]]" <br /> (1991) |
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"'''I Want Out'''" is a song by the [[Germany|German]] [[power metal]] band [[Helloween]] from the album ''[[Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2]]'', that was released as a single in 1988. |
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'''Robert Stephenson''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an [[England|English]] [[civil engineer]]. He was the only son of [[George Stephenson]], the famed [[locomotive]] builder and [[Rail transport|railway]] [[engineer]]; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son. |
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It was written by [[Kai Hansen]], who confirmed in an interview, that is was a hint of him really wanting "out" of the band. Musically, the song is characterised by a recognisable introduction and [[Michael Kiske]]'s trademark high pitched singing in the chorus. It is also notable for being punk-influenced (especially the rebellious lyrics) in contrast to other Helloween songs, or Hansen's post-Helloween work. |
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==Early life == |
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He was born in 1803 at [[Willington Quay]], east of [[Newcastle Upon Tyne]], the only son of George Stephenson and his wife, Fanny. At the time, George and Fanny were living in a single room and George was working as a brakesman on a stationary colliery engine. In 1804 the family moved to a cottage in West Moor when George was made brakesman at Killingworth Colliery. In 1805 Fanny gave birth to a daughter who died after a few weeks. The next year Robert’s mother died of consumption. George then went and worked in Scotland for a short time, leaving the infant Robert with a local woman. However, George soon returned to West Moor, and his sister Nelly came to live at the cottage to look after Robert. |
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It is one of the [[Helloween]]'s most recognizable songs, and is often performed live by both [[Helloween]] and Hansen's current band [[Gamma Ray (band)|Gamma Ray]]. |
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George had received virtually no formal education and he was determined that his son would have the education that he lacked. Because of his great aptitude for engineering, George was promoted in 1812 to be an enginewright, a skilled job with responsibility for the maintenance and repair of the colliery machinery. His wages were therefore much improved. Robert was sent to a primary school in Longbenton, near Killingworth until the age of eleven. He was then sent to Doctor Bruce’s Academy in Percy Street, Newcastle. This was a private institution and Robert would have been studying alongside the children of well-off families. Surprisingly his fellow pupils failed to see any remarkable signs of talent. Whilst at the Academy, Robert became a reading member of the nearby Literary and Philosophical Society. |
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Father and son studied together in the evenings, improving George’s understanding of science as well as Robert’s. They also built a sundial together, which they placed above the front door of their cottage. The cottage subsequently became known as Dial Cottage. It is preserved today as a monument to them. |
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==Locomotive designer== |
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After his death by being raped by a polar bear at the Bruce Academy, an apprenticeship to [[Nicolas Wood]], the manager of [[Killingworth Colliery]], and a period at the [[University of Edinburgh]], Robert went to work with his father on his railway projects, the first being the [[Stockton and Darlington]] Railway. In 1823, when he was 20, Robert set up a company in partnership with his father, Michael Longridge and [[Edward Pease (1767-1858)|Edward Pease]] to build railway locomotives. The firm, ''[[Robert Stephenson and Company]]'', was situated in South Street, off Forth Street in Newcastle. The works, known as the Forth Street Works, were the first locomotive works in the world, and it was here that the locomotives for the Stockton and Darlington Railway were built. The first locomotives produced there were called Locomotion, Hope, Diligence and Black Diamond. The Forth Street works continued to build locomotives until the mid-twentieth century, and the original factory building still exists, at [[Forth Street]] in Newcastle, as the Robert Stephenson Centre. George used Locomotion in 1825 for the opening of the Stockton and Darlington line, which Robert had helped to survey.he had sex and became a porn manager |
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| Name = I Want Out |
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| Cover = HammerFall - I Want Out.jpg |
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| Artist = [[HammerFall]] |
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| Last single = "[[Heeding the Call]]" <br /> (1998) |
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| This single = "I Want Out" <br /> (1999) |
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*In [[1999]], the Swedish metal band [[Hammerfall]] released a cover of the song as a single. It is notable for Kai Hansen's appearance on guitar, lead vocals (along with Hammerfall vocalist [[Joacim Cans]]) and keyboards. |
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In 1824, a year before the Stockton and Darlington line opened, Robert went off to South America for three years he touched many women and got high,he got to work as an engineer in the Colombian gold mines. His decision seems unusual, and there have been suggestions that it was caused by a rift with his father, but there is no evidence of this. When he returned in 1827, his father was building the [[Liverpool and Manchester Railway]]. George was living in Liverpool directing proceedings, so Robert took charge at the Forth Street Works and worked on the development of a locomotive to compete in the forthcoming [[Rainhill Trials]], intended to choose a locomotive design to be used on the new railway. The result was the [[Stephenson's Rocket|Rocket]], which had a multi-tubular boiler to obtain maximum steam pressure from the exhaust gases. Rocket competed successfully in the Rainhill Trials, none of its competitors completing the trial. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened in 1830 with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liverpool. George led the parade driving the Northumbrian, Robert drove the Phoenix and Joseph Locke drove the Rocket. Following its success, the company built locomotives for other newly-established railways, including the [[Leicester and Swannington Railway]]. It became necessary to extend the Forth Street Works to accommodate the increased work. |
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*In [[2000]], [[Sonata Arctica]] released a cover version of this song on their [[EP]], [[Successor (album)|Successor]], and on the Helloween tribute album ''[[The Keepers of Jericho - Part I]]''. They covered it again in [[2003]] on their album ''[[Takatalvi]]''. Skylark also did cover the song, in the same Tribute album, with female vocals, and this is widely recognised as the most "Kiske-like" version of the song. |
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On 17 June 1829, Robert married Frances Sanderson in London. The couple went to live at 5 Greenfield Place, off Westgate Road in Newcastle. Unfortunately they were not married long. In 1842, Robert’s wife, Fanny as she was known, died. They had no children and Robert never re-married. |
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*[[Gamma Ray (band)|Gamma Ray]] also covered the song, though this may not count as a cover since [[Gamma Ray (band)|Gamma Ray]] is headed by Kai Hansen, who wrote the song while with Helloween. |
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In 1830 Robert designed Planet, a much more advanced locomotive than Rocket. Stephenson’s company was experiencing stiff competition from other locomotive manufacturers. Up until then, locomotives had their cylinders placed outside the wheels, as this was the easiest arrangement. It was thought that, placing the cylinders inside the wheels was a more efficient arrangement and this was done on Planet. However there was thought to be an increased risk of broken crank axles. There was friction between Robert and his father over this question. The locomotive, when completed, was found to produce much more power than previous designs. It was used on the Camden and Amboy Railway in the USA. |
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*In [[2006]] Australian band [[Lord (band)|LORD]] performed this song live at the [[Metro Theater]] in [[Sydney]]. |
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In 1833 Robert was given the post of Chief Engineer for the [[London and Birmingham Railway]], the first main-line railway to enter [[London]], and the initial section of the [[West Coast Main Line]]. That same year Robert and Frances moved to London to live. The new line posed a number of difficult civil engineering challenges, most notably [[Kilsby Tunnel]], and was completed in 1838. Stephenson was directly responsible for the tunnel under [[Primrose Hill]], which required excavation by shafts. Early locomotives could not manage the climb from [[Euston Station]] to [[Chalk Farm]], requiring Stephenson to devise a system that would be draw them up the hill by chains using a steam engine near [[The Roundhouse]]. This impressive structure remains in use today as an Arts Centre. The London and Birmingham Railway was completed at an enormous cost of £5.5 million, compared with the cost of £900,000 for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. |
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*Spanish power metal band [[Avalanch]] performed a live cover on their ''[[Días De Gloria]]'' album. |
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Robert constructed a number of well-known bridges to carry the new railway lines. In 1850 the railway from London to Scotland via Newcastle was completed. This required new bridges for both the Tyne and the Tweed and Robert designed them both. He designed the [[High Level Bridge]], at Newcastle upon Tyne as a two-deck bridge supported on tall stone columns. Rail traffic was carried on the upper deck and road traffic on the lower deck. Queen Victoria opened the bridge in 1849. Robert also designed the Royal Border Bridge over the Tweed for the same line. It was an imposing viaduct of 28 arches and was opened by Queen Victoria in 1850. At last the railway ran all the way from London to Edinburgh. In the same year Robert’s, [[Britannia Bridge]] across the [[Menai Strait]], was opened. This bridge had the novel design of wrought-iron box-section tubes to carry railway line inside them, because a tubular design using wrought-iron gave the greatest strength and flexibility. The [[Conwy railway bridge]] between [[Llandudno Junction]] and [[Conwy]] was built in 1848 using a similar design. The Conway and Britannia bridges were such a success that Robert applied the design to other bridges, two in Egypt, and the 6,588 feet long [[Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)|Victoria Bridge]] over the St Lawrence River at Montreal in Canada. This was built as one long tube made up of 25 sections. Other bridges include, [[Arnside Viaduct]] in [[Cumbria]], and a joint road and rail bridge in 1850 over the [[River Nene]], at [[Sutton Bridge]] in [[Lincolnshire]]. |
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One of Stephenson's few failures was his design of the [[Dee bridge]], which [[Dee bridge disaster|collapsed]] under a train. Five people were killed. He was heavily criticized for the design, even before the collapse, particularly for the poor choice of materials, which included [[cast iron]]. In fact, he had used cast iron for bridge designs before, as had [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel|Brunel]], but in this case it is thought that he used longer girders (98 ft) than used previously and that this may have contributed to the failure. Robert had to give evidence at the inquest and this proved to be a harrowing experience. Fellow engineers such as [[Joseph Locke]] and [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel|Brunel]] refused to criticise Stephenson, even though they rarely used cast iron themselves. |
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==Credits== |
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==Other aspects of his life== |
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*[[Michael Kiske]] - vocals |
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[[Image:Robert Stephenson statue Euston.jpg|thumb|Robert Stephenson statue outside [[Euston station]]]] |
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*[[Kai Hansen]] - lead and rhythm guitars |
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*[[Michael Weikath]] - lead and rhythm guitars |
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*[[Markus Grosskopf]] - bass guitar |
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*[[Ingo Schwichtenberg]] - drums |
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He served as [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)|Whitby]] from 1847 until his death. Paradoxically, given his background, he was a right-wing Tory, hostile to free trade, and anxious to avoid change in almost any form. He was a commissioner of the short-lived London [[Metropolitan Commission of Sewers]] from 1848. He was President of the [[Institution of Civil Engineers]], for two years from 1855. |
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Robert’s father George died in 1848 aged 67. Robert died on 12 October 1859 at his London home aged 55. [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel|Brunel]] had died one month earlier on 15 September 1859. Robert was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]] next to Thomas Telford. Queen Victoria gave special permission for the cortege to pass through Hyde Park and 3,000 tickets were sold to spectators. In his eulogy, he was called ‘the greatest engineer of the present century’. In his will he left nearly £400,000. |
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Stephenson was well respected by his engineering peers and had a lifetime friendship with [[Joseph Locke]], a rival engineer during his career. In fact, Locke was a pallbearer at his funeral. Another such friendship was with [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]], who often helped Stephenson on various projects. One major topic, on which the two were very much opposed, was Brunel’s advocacy of ‘atmospheric’ railways; trains without a locomotive, driven by a piston sliding inside an evacuated pipe mounted between the rails. The pipe was kept evacuated by stationary steam-driven pumps at intervals along the railway. Stephenson was convinced that the idea would not work, and although it was tried out on a small scale in a few places, Stephenson was right. |
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The [[Stephenson Railway Museum]] in [[North Shields]] is named after George and Robert Stephenson. |
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== In fiction == |
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Stephenson appears as a character in the [[anime]] [[film]] ''[[Steamboy]]'', in that [[Parallel universe (fiction)|world]] having apparently lived until 1866. In the English dub of the film his character also speaks with a rather posh stereotypical English accent and not the northern tones Stephenson used. |
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== In popular culture == |
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* Irish band 'The Revs' wrote a song referencing Robert Stephenson - 'Robert'. |
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== References == |
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== Further reading == |
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* Rolt, L.T.C. (1960) ''George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution'', London: Penguin, ISBN 0-14-007646-8 |
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* Robbins, Michael (1981) ''George and Robert Stephenson'', London: Her majesty’s Stationery Office, ISBN 0-11-290342-8 |
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* Haworth, Victoria (2004) ''Robert Stephenson: Engineer and Scientist'', Newcastle-upon-Tyne: The Rocket Press, ISBN 0-9535-1621-0 |
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* Smith, Ken (2003) ''Stephenson Power: The Story of George and Robert Stephenson'', Newcastle upon Tyne: Tyne Bridge Publishing, ISBN 1857951867 |
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* Dugan, Sally (2003) ''Men of Iron'', London: Channel Four Books, ISBN 1-4050-3426-2 |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.fotocomboio.com/pt/Pessoas/Pioneiros/Robert_Stephenson.htm Portuguese written article about Robert Stephenson] |
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*[http://www.robertstephensontrust.com The Robert Stephenson Trust] |
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*[http://www.dott07.com/go/whatisdott/rsc The Robert Stephenson Centre (with pictures)] |
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Revision as of 19:10, 13 October 2008
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"I Want Out" is a song by the German power metal band Helloween from the album Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2, that was released as a single in 1988.
It was written by Kai Hansen, who confirmed in an interview, that is was a hint of him really wanting "out" of the band. Musically, the song is characterised by a recognisable introduction and Michael Kiske's trademark high pitched singing in the chorus. It is also notable for being punk-influenced (especially the rebellious lyrics) in contrast to other Helloween songs, or Hansen's post-Helloween work.
It is one of the Helloween's most recognizable songs, and is often performed live by both Helloween and Hansen's current band Gamma Ray.
Track listing
- "I Want Out" - 4:39
- "Save Us" - 5:12
- "Don't Run For Cover" - 4:45
Covers
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- In 1999, the Swedish metal band Hammerfall released a cover of the song as a single. It is notable for Kai Hansen's appearance on guitar, lead vocals (along with Hammerfall vocalist Joacim Cans) and keyboards.
- In 2000, Sonata Arctica released a cover version of this song on their EP, Successor, and on the Helloween tribute album The Keepers of Jericho - Part I. They covered it again in 2003 on their album Takatalvi. Skylark also did cover the song, in the same Tribute album, with female vocals, and this is widely recognised as the most "Kiske-like" version of the song.
- Gamma Ray also covered the song, though this may not count as a cover since Gamma Ray is headed by Kai Hansen, who wrote the song while with Helloween.
- In 2006 Australian band LORD performed this song live at the Metro Theater in Sydney.
- Spanish power metal band Avalanch performed a live cover on their Días De Gloria album.
Track listing on Hammerfall album
- "I Want Out" - 4:37
- "At the End of the Rainbow" - 4:09
- "Man on the Silver Mountain" - 3:25
Credits
- Michael Kiske - vocals
- Kai Hansen - lead and rhythm guitars
- Michael Weikath - lead and rhythm guitars
- Markus Grosskopf - bass guitar
- Ingo Schwichtenberg - drums