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Song links
Jan. 21st, 2009 12:44 pmIf, like me, you were too busy to watch the inauguration concerts when they were broadcast, here comes YouTube with some highlights:
This land is your land: Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen and just about everyone else.
Pride (in the name of love): U2, singing their song about Martin Luther King exactly where he held his speech.
The Rising: Bruce Springsteen. You know, I remember visiting the US for the first time when I was fourteen, in the middle of Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign, when a rather famous gaffe happened: the Reagan campaign tried to appropriate Born in the USA, evidently having no further knowledge of the lyrics than the refrain and ignoring that it went on "Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go". Springsteen was less than thrilled and forbade the use of his song. Having this moment - singing for a change of goverment he actually can believe in, with a song written as a tribute to 9/11 that was the antithesis of the way the Bush administration exploited that tragedy - must have been incredible for him.
This land is your land: Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen and just about everyone else.
Pride (in the name of love): U2, singing their song about Martin Luther King exactly where he held his speech.
The Rising: Bruce Springsteen. You know, I remember visiting the US for the first time when I was fourteen, in the middle of Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign, when a rather famous gaffe happened: the Reagan campaign tried to appropriate Born in the USA, evidently having no further knowledge of the lyrics than the refrain and ignoring that it went on "Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go". Springsteen was less than thrilled and forbade the use of his song. Having this moment - singing for a change of goverment he actually can believe in, with a song written as a tribute to 9/11 that was the antithesis of the way the Bush administration exploited that tragedy - must have been incredible for him.
