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Chicago Seven

Chicago Seven
1970
alla chitarra Peter Green dei Fleetwood Mac

The title referred to several people arrested outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August 1968 for inciting riots. Originally eight people stood trial, all high profile activists - Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin from the hippie movement, the Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, political activists Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, and Tom Hayden (married to Jane Fonda . The trial began on 24 September 1969, but soon after the Judge, Julius Hoffman, ordered Bobby Seale to be bound and gagged for contempt of court. He was tried separately, and thus the eight became seven .

( da Vietnam War Song Project )

The lyrics suggested that large coverage of the Chicago Seven, as well as the "four dead in Ohio" - a reference to the Kent State shootings on 4 May 1970 - was because those involved were white: "nobody seems worried about all the black blood spilled". The song ended with a guitar solo with police siren sound-effects in the background.

( da Vietnam War Song Project )
Everybody is talking about Chicago Seven
(Continues)
Contributed by L. E. 2020/5/30 - 22:37
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The Highwayman

The Highwayman
Mannaggia la pupazza! C'era già!

Siccome ho passato la mattinata a comporre una pagina per questa canzone, almeno contribuisco quella che sarebbe stata l'introduzione... hai visto mai che ci sia qualche info aggiuntiva.

[1906]
Versi pubblicati sul semestrale scozzese “Blackwood's Magazine”, poi nella raccolta “Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems” pubblicata l’anno seguente

Molti artisti hanno messo in musica questa lunga poesia, anche in adattamenti e riduzioni. Fra di loro i compositori Deems Taylor (nel 1914) e C. Armstrong Gibbs (nel 1933) ma più recentemente questi versi di Noyes hanno interessato persino Phil Ochs (nel suo album I Ain't Marching Anymore del 1966, con una versione abbastanza fedele), Stevie Nicks dei Fleetwood Mac (nel suo album solista “Bella Donna” del 1981), Loreena McKennitt (nel 1997) ed Andy Irvine (nel 2000)

Un affascinante ed innominato bandito nell’Inghilterra... (Continues)
B.B. 2017/12/4 - 13:06




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