![]() ![]() Through out most of the ’60s the Beatles had remained aloof on matters of war, poverty and human rights (most likely due to their manager Brian Epstein’s tight control over their image). ![]() Whether inspired by Yoko Ono, Jerry Rubin or David Peel, John Lennon, upon his arrival in New York in 1971, suddenly got his radical on. Mick Jagger claimed to have been inspired by the Left Bank insurrections while writing “Street Fighting Man,” over an urgent, grinding guitar groove, courtesy of Keith Richards, that boldly declared the time was right for “a palace revolution.” By May student riots had erupted in Paris when twenty thousand protesters (a mix of high school and college kids, teachers and workers) marched at Sorbonne University, where they were met with tear gas and beaten with batons before being thrown into jail cells.īy month’s end the protests nearly ground General de Gaulle’s government to a halt. in Memphis, inner cities across America, from Newark to Watts burst into flames. She knew so much about the world, its inequality and poverty.”įollowing the Apassassination of Martin Luther King Jr. “Her version of ‘Joe Hill’ is simple and direct-no frills, very much like Joan, who was always completely comfortable with making us think and feel. “Joan’s fierce dedication to peace was incredibly powerful even at age eighteen,” recalled her old friend Betsy Siggins-Schmidt, founder of the Folk New England Archive. ![]()
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