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Okay, a Sunday fun day, just a few things. Here’s a deadpan Dylan parody from the UK, riffing on the famous film clip, now titled “21st Century Homesick Blues.”
On this date in 1969, John and Yoko recorded/filmed their infamous Montreal singing/bedding of “Give Peace a Chance,” you may have heard it too many times but this captures the entire scene with cameos by Tommy Smothers, Tim Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Petula Clark, and right out front several times our Crawdaddy founder Paul Williams.
Now flash to the present day: Give freedom a chance? Last night in Marseille, Springsteen still with his protest of Trumpism. corruption and treason.
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Tjeerd Royaards:
This meme is getting played out by now, but this was well done:
If I heard John and Yoko's "Give Peace a Chance" 20 times a day, I still would never get tired of it! — signed Unpaid Protestor of the 1960s and '70s AND TODAY!
John and Yoko’s Give Peace a Chance has a place in every generation’s lists unfortunately.