I've posted this song in the Music section but I wanted to post it here and get your opinon on my thoughts.

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4. Great article about the original inspiration and how it's taken on new meaning

https://www.lehighvalleynews.com/arts-culture/the-hooters-returning-to-quakertown-where-tragedy-inspired-one-of-its-biggest-hits

The Hooters arguably had its finest moment with its 1986 hit “Where Do The Children Go,” a haunting ballad that tells of children being led astray by “a deadly piper” between “the bright night and darkest day.”
In a phone call last week from Boston, where he was taking a few days off from the band’s current tour, The Hooters’ singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eric Bazilian again told how he was prompted to write the song “based on an article that Stephen Fried wrote for Philadelphia Magazine."


“The lyric opened up to include the theme of childhood loss of innocence. It’s a song with different meanings.”
The Hooters singer and songwriter Eric Bazilian, speaking about the song, "Where Do the Children Go"
The article was “about an unfortunate series of events where a number of kids had taken their own lives in the Quakertown area,” Bazilian said.

“The lyric opened up to include the theme of childhood loss of innocence. It’s a song with different meanings.”

The poignant story

Fried’s 1984 article, “Over the Edge” told the story of how the body of Michelle E. Qurashi, 16, was found near a rural road in Richland Township, outside of Quakertown, with a gunshot wound to the chest.


She had been despondent over the death of her boyfriend, Marc Landis, 17, who, along with another Quakertown Community High School student, Daniel Furdock, 16, jumped to their deaths Nov. 19, 1983, into an East Rockhill Township quarry.

In a prior interview, Bazilian said Fried’s story “broke our hearts. The song came from that article and talking about the shock and sadness that went with it.”

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