The Bard Of Barking is known for his stark protest songs, often performed ... It was immediately adopted by anti-war protesters. Imagine - John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux ...
Too often, hastily compiled collections of unfinished demos or songs the artists themselves deemed unfit for release end up in the ... elegant filigrees of piano and sedate percussion. The Vietnam war ...
Is it true that movies glamorize whatever they touch, no matter how horrific? And if a war movie isn’t to sound a warning against war, what purpose does it serve? Even if Truffaut’s wrong ...
One of The Clash’s earliest comments on their cousins over the Atlantic came on the band’s debut album, with the song ‘I’m So Bored of the U.S.A’. As the title suggests, the song takes a less than ...
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