In the "Dead Ringer" album, there is a single small notation:
"To the memory of Kenney Robb, a friend and a real front-line warrior"
The spelling is different, but it fits the video and it fits the lyric. Add to this mystery the fact that Steinman still uses "Kenny" as a character, as in his recent monologue "Dear Mama (Tomorrow We Learn to Die)," performed at the OTT/TDE concerts of 2006.
ETA: I wanted to add the monologue just to show this, and yes, it's not that new, but even so, a crappy copy-and-paste job, it is touching. Kudos to EvilNickname's site for this:
Quote:
Dear Mama,
The entire country is burning. You can see the flames like the inside of a mad jukebox. Lost children wander the streets, their heads rocking with dream lightning. Motorcycles reproduce in nocturnal alleys, groaning with greasy pleasure. And they've blown up the YWCA like a giant balloon, full of screaming, lovely, lonely girls.
And my best friend Kenny - you remember him, Mama, from Maple Drive, you know - he's been here a year. Yesterday he stepped on a mine and wasn't hurt. It's a miracle. But twelve hours later, he held his chest and he looked at me, and he said he felt a fluttering, which made him think of the birth of angels. Then a sudden awareness and a thrashing of wings. Then he was dead.
I cried a long time, Mama. I'm afraid of angels being born every minute. And Mama, tomorrow, we learn to die. And all around the world, it doesn't matter where we're going or whatever we do, 'cause we got one thing in common, it's true: we'll never let a night like tonight go to waste. And let me tell you something, neither will you. Neither will you.
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