And whoever else was significant at the time…

Various artists:A ragbag?

My list for today

• Dylan, Cohen: The chroniclers, „poets of pessimism” – and perception

• Folk singer Joan Baez• Steppenwolf• Simon and Garfunkel• Britain’s The Who• Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair

Bob Dylan

• Hero of a generation, a little older than most

• Initially part of the American folk music revival

• Extremely ambitious• The Times They are a-changin’

– Archetypal protest song– Soon „out of date”– One of the anthems of the civil

rights and anti-war movements– https://www.youtube.com/watch

?v=QqvUz0HrNKY

• Like a rolling stone– https://www.youtube.com/watch

?v=H3Kt2v-PN9A

Come gather 'round peopleWherever you roamAnd admit that the watersAround you have grownAnd accept it that soonYou'll be drenched to the boneIf your time to you is worth savin'Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' who that it's namin'For the loser now will be later to winFor the times they are a-changin’

The Times They are A-changin’Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalledThere's a battle outside and it is ragin'It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathersThroughout the landAnd don't criticizeWhat you can't understandYour sons and your daughtersAre beyond your commandYour old road is rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your handFor the times they are a-changin‘

The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe order is rapidly fadin'And the first one now will later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'

Joan Baez• A first class folk singer

in her own right• Relationship with Dylan

remembered in Diamonds and Rust, 1975– With lyrics

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

• Heavy Metal Judas Priest’s cover from the 1970s– https://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=vLDazyvMMGw

Leonard Cohen

• From Montreal, Canada• Poet, writer, painter with a sole

guitar and a „droning voice”• „Portraits of a world dominated

by love and lust, rage and need, compassion and betrayal…”

• Bird on the Wire– https://www.youtube.com/watc

h?v=K8fT7rnRotY

• So Long, Marianne– https://www.youtube.com/watc

h?v=cZI6EdnvH-8

• Cseh Tamás, Sztevanovity Zorán,

• Kern András

Bird on the WireLike a bird on the wireLike a drunk in a midnight choirI have tried in my way to be free

Like a worm on a hookLike a knight from some old-fashioned bookI have saved all my ribbons for theeIf I, if I have been unkindI hope that you can just let it go byIf I, if I have been untrueI hope you know it was never to you

For like a baby, stillbornLike a beast with his hornI have torn everyone who reached out for meBut I swear by this songAnd by all that I have done wrongI will make it all up to thee

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutchHe said to me, "you must not ask for so much"And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened doorShe cried to me, "hey, why not ask for more?"Oh, like a bird on the wireLike a drunk in a midnight choirI have tried in my way to be free

Simon and Garfunkel

• Folk rock duo who also became counterculture icons

• Mrs. Robinson, from Bookends, 1968.– https://www.youtube.com

/watch?v=9C1BCAgu2I8

• Also included in cult film The Graduate , 1967 starring the very young Dustin Hoffman.– Get your maths going!

Mrs. RobinsonWe'd like to knowA little bit about youFor our files.We'd like to help you learnTo help yourself.Look around you. All you seeAre sympathetic eyes.Stroll around the groundsUntil you feel at home.

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,Jesus loves you more than you will know Wo wo woGod bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson,Heaven holds a place for those who pray Hey hey hey, hey hey hey

Hide it in a hiding placeWhere no one ever goes.Put it in you pantry with your cupcakes.It's a little secret,Just the Robinsons' affair.Most of all, you've got to hide itfrom the kids.

Coo coo ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson,Jesus loves you more than you will know Wo wo wo

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson,Heaven holds a place for those who pray Hey hey hey, hey hey hey

Sitting on a sofaOn a Sunday afternoon,Going to the candidates' debate,Laugh about it,Shout about it,When you've got to choose,Every way you look at it you lose.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?A nation turns its lonely eyes to you Ooo ooo ooo.

What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?"Joltin' Joe has left and gone away" Hey hey hey, hey hey hey

Steppenwolf• Rocketing to stardom, with their

debut album• Born to be Wild

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5_ekvfsGJY

– „heavy metal thunder”

• Pusher• "The Pusher" „makes a drug deal,

and the viewers see Peter Fonda stuffing dollar bills into his Stars & Stripes-clad fuel tank…”– https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=r5_ekvfsGJY

• Both songs part of cult film Easy Rider’s score

The Who from Britain

• Linked with the mod counterculture (fashion, music, scooters, etc. subculture), but also with auto-distructive art/pop art forms, hence: – the band’s guitar smashing antics

• Another signature song My Generation, 1965– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59

4WLzzb3JI• Quote from songmeanings.com:

„older people should not judge the youth according to their outdated standards, but let them live how they want to”. – Isn’t it familiar?

• The provocative cover of the Who’s Next? Album, 1971

My GenerationPeople try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generationThis is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away (Talkin' 'bout my generation)Don't try to dig what we all s-s-s-say (Talkin' 'bout my generation)I'm not trying to 'cause a big s-s-sensation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

My generationThis is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away (Talkin' 'bout my generation)And don't try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin' 'bout my generation)I'm not trying to 'cause a b-big s-s-sensation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generationThis is my generation, babyMy my my generation

People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)Just because we g-g-get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation) My generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)This is my generation, baby (Talkin' 'bout my generation) This is my generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)