Word: blowin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inhabited -- Steppenwolf, Country Joe and the Fish, the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles going into their White Album phase and, above all, Bob Dylan, still. Dylan's music had a genius of portent: "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." Back in 1965 he had written, "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?" He was right...
...Chuck Berry might sing about School Days and Johnny B. Goode, but teens knew that his songs -- from the opening guitar riff through the four-on-the-floor chorus to the florid finale -- were siren calls to cut class and feel good. "You know my temperature risin', the jukebox blowin' a fuse,/ My heart beatin' rhythm and my soul keep a-singin' the blues./ Roll over Beethoven. Tell Tchaikovsky the news...
...sing," he said last week. "It is my philosophy to sing what the people want." So people attending a Chuck Berry concert will hear the '50s jukebox blowin' the familiar fuses. Those who see Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll will find a musician who charms and exasperates. Those who read The Autobiography will have a great time inside the perpetual-motion mind of rock's prime performer. The devil is alive and well. And onstage or on the page, he still makes motorvating music...
...thermometer on the bank across the street read 18 degrees and winds added a biting chill, but 4000 spectators still overflowed the square to sing and cheer through. "This Land is Your Land" and "Blowin' in the Wind...
When the American folk group Peter, Paul and Mary sang the 1960s anti-war classic, Blowin' in the Wind, at a concert in Jerusalem last week, the audience reacted with emotion. A crescendo of applause welled up as the trio reached the lines, "How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?" Mary Travers later said that she had been so choked up by the response she could hardly continue singing...