Creedence Clearwater Revival
Fortunate Son (1969)
Some songs opposing the war in Vietnam risked being insipid and condescending. John Fogerty’s broadside looked through the eyes of a blue-collar GI. “Screaming inside” at the injustice of well-connected young men escaping the draft, Fogerty scrawled the lyrics in just 20 minutes and sang them like he was calling in an air strike. The initial inspiration was David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight and son-in-law of Richard Nixon, but it found an even more fitting target in George W Bush during the Iraq war
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The Guardian
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