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OT: Songs that reference historical events

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Great topic, Ozi! I was literally going to start a thread like this when the music threads died down a little.

The Michael, Andrew, and James of this song were Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney, the civil-rights workers who went down to Mississippi to register blacks to vote. This is a song whose dark music goes well with the dark lyrics.

 
I'd remembered this one being entirely about Idi Amin, but the Mighty Sparrow cites many late-70's dictators in it. I haven't heard it in 40 years, but I may just have to go out and get the album.

 
This is about the Battle of Culloden, which was one of the uprisings after England and Scotland were united. Deanta were a Norn Iron group who were only together for a few years; I think they all (or most) had day jobs. They made three albums, all of which are wonderful if you like that style of music.

 
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meyers7 said:
You get a like for MSB. Saw them open for Foreigner way back in the day. :D
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Well, much appreciated..sure beats a big red anti-like because its The Michael Stanley Band.:p
I have a couple of their albums and they're in rotation on the iPod.
Also, I have a couple CDs from the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and had heard about that particular song, but had forgotten.
Pretty sure they were a bunch of folks out of Eugene, OR... Univ of Oregon??
 
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From Wikipedia.....

"Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was first released on their 1972 Plastic Ono Band album with Elephant's Memory, Some Time in New York City. The song addresses the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 and is one of two on the album that addresses the contemporary Northern Ireland conflict, "The Luck of the Irish" being the other.

 
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I could fill this thread up with stuff from Steeleye Span, but I'll try to restrain myself. This is a song put together by Rick Kemp (bass and bass vocals). It's entirely traditional lyrics and snippets of poetry written by the subject, James Graham, Fifth (I think) Earl of Montrose, with some of the music traditional and some written by Rick and the band. Montrose was a Scottish general caught up in the crisis created by the same man becoming king of Scotland and England (the "historical accident"). This is pretty much a brief history of his whole life. My daughter was so taken with the song that she did a whole unit of home school on him and the era of the war.

 
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About the head on crash of two Locomotives as a publicity stunt outside West, Texas. They named the rural stretch of track the city of Crush just for the event

 
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