Master of the Moon

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Ronnie James Dio regarding the choice of song title for the song "Master of the Moon". I do not think I could have summed this up better.

"I wrote that about a friend of mine who has a 15-year-old kid who has all these hormones coursing through his body and does not want to be told what to do. He has a bit of a rebellious nature. His parents tell him that he must do this or that. The lyrics are “Turn around and you can face the sun and we can make you be just like everyone.” He doesn’t want to be just like everyone. The operative line is “face the sun.” People think the sun is everything so the moon must suck. I called him ‘master of the moon’ because he is not doing what people think he should be doing. He is a master of crap, I guess."

For the remainder of the interview you can visit:

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Interviews04/RonnieJamesDio.htm