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...songs Lennon wrote later on his own-Imagine and Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, Instant Karma and Give Peace a Chance and the gentle and unapologetic Watching the Wheels from the new album, or the gorgeous seasonal anthem, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), which he recorded with Ono in 1972-kept the standard high and his conscience fine-tuned. The political songs were all personal, the intimate songs all singular in their fierce insistence on making public all issues of the heart, on working some common moral out of private pain. Rock music is still benefitting from lessons that...
Then Bruce and the E Street Band tore into Springsteen's own anthem, Born to Run, making it clear that playing was the best thing to do. Guitarist Steve Van Zandt let the tears roll down his face, and Organist Danny Federici hit the board so hard he broke a key. By the second verse, the song turned into a challenge the audience was happy to accept: "I wanna know love is wild, I wanna know love is real," Springsteen yelled and they yelled back. By the end, it sounded like redemption John Lennon knew that sound...
...Reagan camp has remained studiously neutral. Vander Jagt was picked to give the keynote address at last summer's Detroit convention, but Michel was tapped to sing the National Anthem. Michel may have an edge because of his legislative skills; on the other hand Vander Jagt enjoys substantial loyalty among the 52 incoming freshmen, who are grateful for the advice and party funding they received through...
...management treats this patriotic interlude, prompted by the Iranian hostage situation, with the utmost seriousness. Charles Nedder, vice president for Lord and Taylor's New England stores, recently explained the practice thus: "We decided to add the anthem as a reaffirmation of our faith in America. We feel this is particularly valid in Boston, which, after all, is the genesis of liberty and democracy in America." He added that all 34 stores in the chain will play the national an them daily until the hostages are released...
...idolatry, exhibited on last year's Drums and Wires in songs like "Roads Girdle the Globe," metamorphosed in 1980 into full-scale battle hysteria; Black Sea is the best of the new war music. "Generals and Majors" overlays "Bridge Over the River Kwai"-style corps whistling on a bouncy anthem...