The sphere references was a clumsy reference to the two hemispheres 
. No matter, thanks for the contribution 
Two Tribes - Frankie GTH
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Forever Young - Alphaville
War - Edwin Starr
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black - Nina Simone
Ohio - CSNY
Hamilton Miranda (entire score)
Assassins - Sondheim (entire score)
Joe le taxi: Vanessa Paradis
Part of the union: The Strawbs
Ghost town: The Specials
Spiders from Mars: David Bowie
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Strange Fruit Billie Holiday
Ku Klux Klan Steel Pulse
Never forget.
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Candle in the Wind - Elton John (both versions)
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Qualifies because you mentioned the influential John Peel 
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Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell (urban sprawl 
)
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Men at work: down under
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I Saw it on T. V. - John Fogerty
Sheep Farming in the Falklands/Crass
I Am A Wallet/McCarthy
Should The Bible Be Banned/McCarthy
Shipbuilding/Robert Wyatt/Elvis Costello
Just skimming the surface, but I’ll probably be banished or have posts redacted if I continue. So thought I’d play it safe and go back a few decades instead of listing current songs apropos of Middle Eastern genocide.
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Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
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Excellent material 
How about Dylan’s “Black Diamond Bay”?
(or “Hurricane”?)
Full Metal Jacket - Soundtrack
One that is still relevant now, but was absolutely of it’s time as well is:
What’s Going On: Marvin Gaye.
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Late to the party, only just come across this thread.
At the risk of being predictable;
Manhattan Project - Rush
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