Fact #125481
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Joan Baez makes her UK singles chart debut with her version of the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome.
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Suzanne Vega : I remember being eight or nine years old and feeling this kind of climate of, oh, if we can just follow Joan Baez and sing We Shall Overcome then we shall overcome. Then all of a sudden the '70s came and it was, like, that really wasn't good enough. You can sing Blowin' In The Wind – and Blowin' In The Wind is a great song – but it doesn't save you from your political situation, so a kind of cynicism crept in, a feeling of futility.
(Source : interview with Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 5 October 1985)
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(Source : interview with Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 5 October 1985)