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...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...
...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...
...annual pageant. The program was about to end. Joan Baez walked onstage unannounced. As if she were lost in time, Baez driftingly began to sing Bob Dylan's anthem: "How many roads must a man walk down,/ Before you call him a man .../ The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,/ The answer is blowin' in the wind...
...conjuring song, in turn, becomes a signature, an act of self-definition. Blowin' in the Wind, of course, was only one of a thousand defining anthems...