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True metalheads probably knew all this 30 years ago, but it was news to me. I didn't know Alan Cranston was responsible for Megadeth's name.

During the seemingly endless bus ride [after getting kicked out of Metallica and being handed a ticket for a four-day [!!!] bus ride back to LA], he [Mustaine] fumed for a while, and then decided to write some new lyrics. Since he didn’t have any paper, he wrote on the back of a handbill from Senator Alan Cranston. A message on the front of the card, which referred to the stockpiling of nuclear weapons read, “The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid.” After considerable thought, Mustaine decided the term megadeath would make a cool name for a metal band, especially if it was misspelled as Megadeth.

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