Johnny (The Marshall Plan)

Rock superstar from the 1980 song "The Marshall Plan" by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, off their seventh studio album, Cultösaurus Erectus.

When attending a rock show as a teen with his girlfriend Susie, he was deeply impacted when she ran off in the band's limousine. He became bitterly determined to achieve rock stardom as a way to get Susie back, but that didn't happen.

Lyrics

This is Don Kirshner
And tonight on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
A new phenomenon in the music world
With six million albums to his credit in just two short years
My good friend, here's Johnny!
Now Johnny became a legend in his time
Found it easier to live in pain
Half a hero in a hard-hearted game
Now it's showtime and he's caught up in the flow
He hates the rush but he needs the music so
Still he reaches out but Susie's disappeared
Well that's the way it goes at these rock and roll shows

The song title is a joke on the U.S.'s post WWII recovery plan for Europe and the popular brand of guitar amplifier, Marshall.