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>From: amdcad!tymix!nancyh@decwrl.DEC.COM (Nancy Holt)
>Date: 10 May 87 18:02:45 GMT
>Subject: Kate and Iron Maiden?
>Again, this is from Paul, not Nancy.
>
>Does anyone know why the KT logo appears not only on the Kate albums,
>but also on the cover of Somewhere in Time, by Iron Maiden?
>
>I have seen the logo on all of the Kate albums, and I am positive
>that this is what is on the Iron Maiden cover.  (Unless they
>just HAPPENED to make a T and a K connected together at the vertical
>stems.)  It is rather large and appears in a window on the front of the
>album.
>
>Definitely odd.
>
>-- Paul Holt

Not really, Paul. The confusion arises from the original meaning
of the symbol. Kate discovered the symbol in the early seventies,
she didn't make it up. It was originally an Arthurian monogram
for the Knights Templar (the Knights of the Round Table).
Kate says that it appears on old British tombstones and in church
stone carvings. Obviously, Kate liked the Englishness of it, and
the charm of its phonetics in relation to her own name.
But given the heavy metal obsession with macho heroics and
mediaeval warrior claptrap, it isn't at all surprising that
Iron Maiden might use the symbol, too, albeit with none of the
wit with which Kate uses it.

-- Andrew