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Music & Politics
At the dawn of the decade, after the murder of John Lennon and the election of Ronald Reagan, rock 'n' roll got its social conscience back. VH1 remembers the benefit concerts and politically minded artists like U2 who put their money where their mouths were. |
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Artist Interview |
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Fred Schneider
The B-52's frontman recalls how this Athens party band stayed true to its politics.
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Essential Albums |
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Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1980, Geffen)
Prog god Gabriel rallied the sound of the pop dispossessed - post-punk and world music - to take on Reagan's America, Botha's South Africa, and the rest of the globe.
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