Irving wrote the first version of ‘God Bless America’ in an attempt to write the perfect peaceful song that would help unite the world and inspire men to live in…
From there other artists began using it as a protest tool, played at rallies, folk festivals, and other demonstrations, to make it clear to the world that oppression will not…
While anyone who has had their heart broken knows that in time it is possible to love again, the song provides a rational warning not to get too involved with…
The overall message of the song is about how the cities’ fortitude comes from diversity, and that no matter what happens we are unified as a whole. Regardless of where…
It gives young listeners hope that, although they may be from a bad area and the future looks bleak, there is a way to break out and follow your dreams.
Woodstock, for some reason, impressed me as being a modern miracle, like a modern day fishes-and-loaves story. For a herd of people that large to cooperate so well, it was…
He is stuck living the same night over and over again, hoping for something new, but nothing new ever happens. In many ways he is just like all the other…
Springsteen is an artist who writes for the workingman, the underdogs, and the underbelly of society. He writes to humanize the “freaks” one might ignore while walking down the street,…
Everyone needs a vacation sometimes, even rock legends in their prime living outlandish fantasies common folk couldn’t possibly dream up. Unfortunately (fortunately), the music never stops, so in 1975 when…
