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Protest songs have long been a part of politics.
Slaves sang of freedom in the American cotton fields.
Bob Dylan took to the recording studio to capture a decade's mood with The Times are a Changin'.
The Specials (above) told the UK what they thought of Margaret Thatcher with Ghost Town - and Phil Collins raged against homelessness with Another Day in Paradise.
Back in the day, it took weeks to turn a song into a hit, because of studio time, mastering, production and distribution. And with a whole list of people taking a cut of the profits along the way, it was never a good means to try to bring down capitalism.
What's more, it took months if not years for the song to be recognised as the one that really defined the times.
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Slaves sang of freedom in the American cotton fields.
Bob Dylan took to the recording studio to capture a decade's mood with The Times are a Changin'.
The Specials (above) told the UK what they thought of Margaret Thatcher with Ghost Town - and Phil Collins raged against homelessness with Another Day in Paradise.
Back in the day, it took weeks to turn a song into a hit, because of studio time, mastering, production and distribution. And with a whole list of people taking a cut of the profits along the way, it was never a good means to try to bring down capitalism.
What's more, it took months if not years for the song to be recognised as the one that really defined the times.
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