bookofjoe: Disgraced German Minister of Defense Guttenberg transfers power while military band plays "Smoke On The Water"You couldn't make it up.
In one of the strangest events I've seen in some time, German Minister of Defence Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who resigned after it was discovered he'd plagiarized his 2006 doctoral thesis, handed over his office last week.
Wrote Michael Kimmelman in today's New York Times,"Mr. Guttenberg formally transferred power to a new defense minister on Thursday evening in a slightly weird torch-lit military ceremony in which the outgoing minister traditionally chooses the music.
"Mr. Guttenberg picked AC/DC.
"The head conductor of the military band said that request 'just totally breaks the mold of our music styles,' and substituted Deep Purple instead.
"The song was 'Smoke on the Water.'"
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