Author: Sheila Gallagher

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Response to the Kent State Massacre

– Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones

– Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones

– “Woodstock” — Joni Mitchel was not there, but she wrote about it ——- https://youtu.be/cRjQCvfcXn0

– “Woodstock” – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ——- https://youtu.be/HKdsRWhyH30

– Melanie performed at Woodstock and wrote about the experience —– https://youtu.be/IZ52lk9wjZI

– “Volunteers (Got the Revolution)” – Jefferson Airplane —— https://youtu.be/IsoqRvYqWDg

– I Feel Like I’m Fixin to Die – Country Joe MacDonald —— https://youtu.be/ylF9l665a6I

– The Star Spangled Banner – Jimi Hendrix ——  https://youtu.be/TKAwPA14Ni4

John Lennon’s commitment to peace and peaceful change took the form of a variety of ‘events’, including “Bed-ins,” with conceptual artist Yoko Ono. In a Montreal hotel room in 1969 Lennon recorded “Give Peace a Chance”

The song is often referred to as perhaps the first “heavy metal song”, though many would also give that honor to “Helter Skelter” on the Beatles 1968 White Album.

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Having spent several months in India studying Transcendental Meditation under the direction of the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles returned to London in April 1968. John Lennon’s song “Revolution” expressed his response to the social events that were unfolding. He chides those who uncritically embrace ‘ideological,’ socio-political solutions, while expressing his own ambiguity to ‘revolution’ – “you can count me out / in”.

Another Biblical perspective