I believe the lyrics reference the 1972 Munich Olympics when 11 Israeli were sot on the roof of their living quarters by 'Black September' Arab/Palestinian Guerillas. 'Arabs and Jews, boy too much for me'
In the same year, about the same time, Richard Nixon went to Peking (Bejing) China to broker a deal with eastern nations that included a staged withdrawal from Viet Nam 'Word from Peking'.
Lindesfarne's Fog on the Tyne was a number 1 ablum in the UK earlier that year.
I think it is actually the first socially and politically charged song that I can think of in the Genesis canon.
It references the horrors going on around the world and also the mindless celebrity hedonism 'the trouble was started by a young Errol Flynn' of the entertainments world, on TV and film, to that distracts the populace from bad news; all cast in a pastoral English flavoured piece of music (e.g. Composer, Ralph Vaughen Williams influence perhaps?)
Irish;
how about
Selling England by the Pound (Dancing Moonlit Night) ...that sounds a little socially and politically charged.....or even better yet Aisle of Plenty...their activisim was always quite subtle and understated (the English Way) back in the day.....
Irish;
how about
Selling England by the Pound (Dancing Moonlit Night) ...that sounds a little socially and politically charged.....or even better yet Aisle of Plenty...their activisim was always quite subtle and understated (the English Way) back in the day.....
I believe the lyrics reference the 1972 Munich Olympics when 11 Israeli were sot on the roof of their living quarters by 'Black September' Arab/Palestinian Guerillas. 'Arabs and Jews, boy too much for me' In the same year, about the same time, Richard Nixon went to Peking (Bejing) China to broker a deal with eastern nations that included a staged withdrawal from Viet Nam 'Word from Peking'.
Lindesfarne's Fog on the Tyne was a number 1 ablum in the UK earlier that year.
I think it is actually the first socially and politically charged song that I can think of in the Genesis canon. It references the horrors going on around the world and also the mindless celebrity hedonism 'the trouble was started by a young Errol Flynn' of the entertainments world, on TV and film, to that distracts the populace from bad news; all cast in a pastoral English flavoured piece of music (e.g. Composer, Ralph Vaughen Williams influence perhaps?)
Irish; how about Selling England by the Pound (Dancing Moonlit Night) ...that sounds a little socially and politically charged.....or even better yet Aisle of Plenty...their activisim was always quite subtle and understated (the English Way) back in the day.....
Irish; how about Selling England by the Pound (Dancing Moonlit Night) ...that sounds a little socially and politically charged.....or even better yet Aisle of Plenty...their activisim was always quite subtle and understated (the English Way) back in the day.....
Seems spot on. Political references had been present in earlier compositions, however. This piece was much more overt.
Seems spot on. Political references had been present in earlier compositions, however. This piece was much more overt.