IT Anthems
Celebrating the music of the industry
Wednesday 4 April 2007, 11:55 AM
A Corporate Anthem for spooks!
The latest surprise from the world of corporate anthems is a stunner.
The US National Reconnasance Office, the spooks that run America's spy satellites, don't normally seek publicity. But a 40th anniversary can do strange things to a body. In 2000, the NRO created a soft-rock anthem, which a Freedom of Information request (actually a Mandatory Declassification Review request has only just released to the public.
It's a truly splendid piece of work, with stirring orchestrations, voice overs from various presidents, a corny key change, lots of historic film, and pictures of spook technology.
This link comes courtesy of the unbeatable spy network ZDNet's Rupert Goodwins - who tells me this film has the first official picture he has seen of a spy satellite.
And there's lots of rockets.
The US National Reconnasance Office, the spooks that run America's spy satellites, don't normally seek publicity. But a 40th anniversary can do strange things to a body. In 2000, the NRO created a soft-rock anthem, which a Freedom of Information request (actually a Mandatory Declassification Review request has only just released to the public.
It's a truly splendid piece of work, with stirring orchestrations, voice overs from various presidents, a corny key change, lots of historic film, and pictures of spook technology.
This link comes courtesy of the unbeatable spy network ZDNet's Rupert Goodwins - who tells me this film has the first official picture he has seen of a spy satellite.
And there's lots of rockets.
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