Saw a video today suggesting a '70s anthem might be needed soon against oppression

[highplainsdem]

This had turned up as something YouTube recommended. It was posted a couple of days ago:

I've liked the videos I've seen from the Professor of Rock (Adam Reader), though I'll admit I haven't seen that many of them. He often has really interesting background, including interviews at times, about songs that have been important in rock history.

But this one ended in a way I hadn't expected.

After going through lots of interesting detail (which I already knew, but which will be new for many) about how Bowie's "Heroes" was recorded, he went off on a tangent I hadn't expected, right after talking about the effect Bowie'd had performing the song at the Berlin Wall in 1987, with some of the speakers turned so people in East Berlin could hear it more clearly.

Starting at about 19:40, Reader said that he's no psychic, but he's had a strong feeling, in his gut and his heart, that the "last chapter" for this song isn't done, and that it'll be needed in the near future as an anthem for fighting oppression and tyranny.

And that struck me because after Biden gave that national address condemning without naming Trump last week, I'd felt the same way, that it was pretty much the only song I wanted to hear then:

https://democraticunderground.com/100216218906


I was wondering how other DUers felt about this.

(And I'd better add that I have no idea what the political views of the Professor of Rock are. So it's possible Reader might see a Bowie song against oppression as something RWers could rally behind. Logically, no RWer should try to use anything Bowie wrote, but of course they aren't logical. So if anyone discovers Reader did NOT mean this as something liberals could use as an anthem, then I'm sorry, but I didn't know that.)


Heroes, the original video, and the live performance in Paris is 2002, probably the best performance of the song ever:

[FreepFryer]

1. Deflecting protest may be why the business destroyed the album as a concept. (Nt)

[highplainsdem]

2. Possibly.

[Hekate]

3. KnR to listen later

[highplainsdem]

4. Thanks! It's a long video, but very interesting.