Since I mentioned these songs in my "My Radical History" post, here are some videos of them:
(I prefer this version by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, but embedding isn't enabled)
(I liked Joan Baez's slight aside in this performance, noting that not ALL young girls choose to go to young men...)
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I'm a big fan of Queen's music, but I feel they weren't always very politically astute, or necessarily nice people. For example, I read their official biography and initially bought their reason for playing Sun City in South Africa during the Musician's Union boycott of the apartheid regime, but insisting on mixed race audiences; however, I now understand that even that was probably much less helpful than they believed to the anti-apartheid cause, and probably did more harm than good.
Which note I feel obliged to put before playing the final tune:
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