The song title is inspired by Ice Station Zebra, a 1963, Cold War era, thriller novel written by Scottish author, Alistair MacLean. Ice Station Zebra is also a 1968, suspense and espionage, film directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The screenplay by is loosely based upon MacLean’s 1963 novel. Both have parallels to real-life events that took place in 1959.

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