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Spotlight on Dissident Americans
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A pop song celebrating Americans that aren't really considered heros, yet.
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A nobody with something to say. If you crossed sixties flower child, singer songwriter Donovan with (the only band that ever really mattered) The Clash, you mig
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Genre
Alternative • Other Alternative
Charts
Peak #648
Peak in subgenre #99
Author
The Man with No Name
Rights
1998, Jim Pera, all rights reserved.
Uploaded
November 24, 2006
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MP3 2.2 MB • 128 kbps • 2:23
Story behind the song
The song is about these people: Abbie Hoffman, who was one of the Chicago Seven of the late 1960s that was tried for allegedly inciting a riot by organizing a protest of the Vietnam War. He died, I believe, while on the run from the law, and at a very young age. Philip Agee used to be a C.I.A. agent. He wrote a book exposing some of the really dirty things they did. The jacket from his second book says that he's spent the rest of his life running from the C.I.A. Karen Silkwood was trying expose the unsafe working conditions at the nuclear power plant she worked at. She died in a mysterious car crash while going to see a reporter. Her body had been exposed to unprecidented levels of plutonium, a very unsafe radioactive material used in nuclear power plants. Dan Hicks is one of America's greatest rock and rollers, but he's kind of hard to get into. And most people have probably heard of Kurt Kobain.
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