Friday night music is: War & Peace

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/h6KYAVn8ons?si=opJpo_sAFG8X5GcI

Elton John I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
Not an obvious one, but as a nod to all those of my parents generation who were dragged away at 18, or 21 if you were apprenticed for 2 years, usually getting a "Dear John" a couple of weeks into basic training, then posted off in some cases, straight to wars or emergencies in the colonies

 

[Profpointy]

View: https://youtu.be/HON-9Z1Greo?feature=shared


Written by our Dimitri during the truly desperate times of the siege of Leningrad. He was a fireman at the time as his eyesight was too poor to be a soldier.

 

[Chris S]

The Skatalites - Guns of Navarone

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtESlTKBa4s

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I guess that's PTSD
"In The Emotional Battlefields, He's Fighting Wars In His Head
10 Long Years In The Saigon Swamps, Thinking He'd Rather Be Dead"

Frenzy
I See Red

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JdV2NdbE0I

 

[Chris S]

Dead Kennedys - Chemical Warfare

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBvI4pdh9U

 

[Beebo]

View: https://youtu.be/Aupn-91BNwU?si=FvsQcfThRHhHEShJ


I had forgotten this one until it popped up.
A song about Stalin’s appalling treatment of returning Russian soldiers, who were deemed to be too Westernised after meeting American soldiers in Berlin.

 

[Chris S]

Iggy & The Stooges - Search and Destroy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9km8qnbOY