Sam Cooke, one of the greatest voices of popular music, was inspired by Bob Dylan’s song “Blowin’ in the Wind” and how a white person could write so powerfully about racism. Cooke wrote “A Change is Gonna Come” after he and his friends were refused lodging in a ‘whites only’ motel in Louisiana. Cooke was risking his career in doing so.
Category: Music
MUSIC: “Masters of War” – Bob Dylan, 1963
Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” was written as an indictment of the ‘military industrial complex’.
MUSIC: “The Times They Are a-Changin’” – Bob Dylan, 1963
Bob Dylan was called the ‘conscience and voice of a generation.’ He put into song what people wanted to express but had not the words. The song “The Times They Are a-Changin’” would resound throughout the years of the 1960s.
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