Goalscrounger's 30 Day Music Challenge - Day 29 - Wednesday 13th May - A Song Inspired By A Historical Event

The Clash were upset that their label, CBS, made them release a song called "Remote Control" as a single, and came up with "Complete Control" as retaliation. So in the UK in 1977, The Clash released a single they didn't like followed by another one (this) that ridiculed the decision to release the previous one. From that point on, The Clash went to great measures to get control of how their music was distributed.
 
Could probably fill this with just Phil Ochs songs.

Phil Ochs - The Crucifixion

It’s a song about Christ-killing, how all America and even, especially, New York loves to create heroes to moralize to them and then kill them violently, bloodily and dig the death so much, every detail of the death. It’s a song about Jesus Christ. It’s called The Crucifixion. It’s a song about Kennedy. And maybe a song about Dylan.”
- Phil Ochs


 
Carlos Fandango said:
The Clash were upset that their label, CBS, made them release a song called "Remote Control" as a single, and came up with "Complete Control" as retaliation. So in the UK in 1977, The Clash released a single they didn't like followed by another one (this) that ridiculed the decision to release the previous one. From that point on, The Clash went to great measures to get control of how their music was distributed.
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Their best song ever IMO.
 
One Mr Goalscrounger himself should listen too and read about (if he hasnt already)

The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationists and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 30, 1962. Segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran, at the University of Mississippi (known affectionately as Ole Miss) at Oxford, Mississippi. Two civilians, one a French journalist, were killed during the night, and over 300 people were injured,[1] including one-third of the federal law enforcement personnel deployed

 
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Taken from the 1964 album "Times they are a changing".
I first heard this in 1974/75 from a cousin who was a bit of a hippy. Think this formed the way Ive thought ever since I heard it right up until today.

Dylan, I dont think there has been a more powerful wordsmith ever lived, they say the pen is mightier than the sword, this song slays right wing politics for me.

Only a Pawn in Their Game" is a song written by Bob Dylan about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963. Showing support for the African Americans during the American Civil Rights Movement.

 
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Like this version of Woodstock rather than Joni Mitchells.Probably the most historically famous music festival that ever happened and the film is great too.

 
Tom Paxton - Phil

About the suicide of Phil Ochs


Haven't played this in years and it almost brought me to tears playing it again. Have always been a massive Phil Ochs fan. He was already dead before I even found his music but its timeless.
 
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This song was inspired by the Notting Hill riots in west London on August 30, 1976. The carnival was a celebration of Caribbean culture, but it turned violent when police were attacked after arresting a pickpocket. Over 100 police officers were hospitalized along with about 60 crowd members
 
Though Joni didn't appear at Woodstock due to her manager thinking it was more important for her to appear on The d*ck Cavett Show , she penned this song after realizing that she missed out on playing this historical festiva
 
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