Songs, ditties, orchestral manoeuvres, etc. which tell a story of the time.
Here’s my first contributions:
Brother Can You Spare a Dime - Bing Crosby
Bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover - Vera Lynn
I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die - Country Joe & The Fish
Trouble in the Fields - Nanci Griffith
Lives in the balance, by Jackson Brown
Aretha Franklin’s version of RESPECT.
Hawkwind - Days of the Underground
The Clash Tommy Gun.
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Forgot this one.
Billie Holiday-Strange fruit
Baddiel and Skinner - Three Lions ( Footballs Coming Home)
Tom Paxton - Vietnam Talkin’ Pot Luck Blues
Ride of the Valkyies:Apocalypse Now
Pink Floyd the Wall
Dylan-The Times They Are A-Changin’
Gaye-inner city blues
Creedence-fortunate son
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
Marvin Gaye Mercy Mercy Me
Fortunate Son - CCR
Twelfth Night
Sequences
Fact and fiction entire album
Gillan
Mutually Assured Destruction
Camel
West Berlin
Deep Purple
Child in time
Marillion Forgotten sons
Pink Floyd
The Wall in its entirety (I note already mentiobed)
Final cut in its entirety
Edgar Broughton
American soldier boy
Hurricane man
Arlo Guthrie
Alice’s restaurant
Black Sabbath
War pigs
Frankie goes to Hollywood
Two tribes
Beatles
Give peace a chance
They just keep coming!
Murder Most Foul - Bob Dylan
Billy Bragg ‘There’s Power in A Union’ for obvious reasons/timing and ‘Sexuality’ which is very much about AIDS when that was such a huge global anxiety.
Bruce
Maybe we could add Streets of Philadelphia (Springsteen) then?
We Didn’t Start The Fire - Billy Joel
American Idiot - Green Day
Between the Wars - Billy Bragg
This Land is My Land - Woody Guthrie
Pennsylvania 6500 - or anything by Glenn Miller
Lili Marlene - Marlene Dietrich
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Hayley
The Day the Music Died - Don Maclean
Almost enough material here for someone to create a:
Social History 101 Playlist
I was expecting there to be a mention of:
Music of the Spheres - Coldplay
Music of the Spheres - Mike Oldfield
Music of the Spheres - Ian Brown
Plus other renditions.
Apologies in advance.