Fact #113789
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The tv pop music documentary, A Boy Called Donovan, is broadcast in the UK.Full article:
Donovan : I was offered a documentary about my lifestyle! Well they asked for it! For the first time a British TV audience saw beatniks smoking pot. The producers were not aware of the actual scenes they were filming and they papers spoke of near orgy in pot party on TV. Soon I became the first rock'n'roll drug bust of many, I was a threat to the establishment in this new freedom of the sixties.
in those days you couldn't say anything against the establishment, you couldn't say anything about freedom on media. I come from a generation who rose up as television was growing and as radio was growing and records became cheap, the 45 single and the youth had money in their pockets, it is easy to forget in the fifties that songs of freedom were considered anti-establishment and it's easier to forget that in the thirties and forties, the unions were actually attacked by police for demonstrating.
I come from this pedigree of singers of social issues and yet I arrived in pop music like Dylan did and Joan Baez did and as many artistes who came after us, who infused pop music with a message. And I'm leading up the sing a new song here, and when I say the new freedom of the sixties, it was the first time really, on radio and on record that these messages could be sung. And I recall the largest CND campaign, CND means Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, was set to start and end in Trafalgar Square, London and in the beginning I was part of this campaign and there was one particular singer that I met, a Canadian Indian American girl, Buffy St Marie. She wrote some heavy songs, she still writes, she wrote this originally about the Vietnam war but it means the same thing now. I had the good fortune to record it, it's called The Universal Soldier.
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in those days you couldn't say anything against the establishment, you couldn't say anything about freedom on media. I come from a generation who rose up as television was growing and as radio was growing and records became cheap, the 45 single and the youth had money in their pockets, it is easy to forget in the fifties that songs of freedom were considered anti-establishment and it's easier to forget that in the thirties and forties, the unions were actually attacked by police for demonstrating.
I come from this pedigree of singers of social issues and yet I arrived in pop music like Dylan did and Joan Baez did and as many artistes who came after us, who infused pop music with a message. And I'm leading up the sing a new song here, and when I say the new freedom of the sixties, it was the first time really, on radio and on record that these messages could be sung. And I recall the largest CND campaign, CND means Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, was set to start and end in Trafalgar Square, London and in the beginning I was part of this campaign and there was one particular singer that I met, a Canadian Indian American girl, Buffy St Marie. She wrote some heavy songs, she still writes, she wrote this originally about the Vietnam war but it means the same thing now. I had the good fortune to record it, it's called The Universal Soldier.
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