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The song was a reaction to the varying difficult issues facing America in the late 1970s – the fallout from the Watergate scandal, the simultaneous double-digit inflation, unemployment, and prime interest rates (leading to the misery index), and the 1979–1981 Iran Hostage Crisis.
Heroes is a 1977 American drama film directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan [3] and starring Henry Winkler, Sally Field and Harrison Ford (in his first post-Star Wars role, but filmed before that movie's release). Winkler plays a Vietnam War vet with PTSD who sets about finding the men from his unit who had served in Vietnam.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 22, 2004, in a CBS television special hosted by John Travolta , who appeared in two films honored by the list, Saturday Night Fever and Grease .
This perfect patriotic song about America from Hamilton introduces not just Alexander Hamilton, but also often-unsung revolutionary heroes Hercules Mulligan, John Laurens and Marquis de Lafayette ...
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
According to biographer Nicholas Pegg, "Young Americans" presents a rapid lyric "sketching an Englishman's impressionist portrait of 20th century America". [11] Production team the Matrix noted "America" as "a bit like a teenager: brimming with energy and imagination, occasionally overstepping the mark, but always with a great sense of possibility". [12]
An original song, titled "Glory", performed by Common and John Legend, is a protest anthem, that refers to the 2014 Ferguson protests. [5] The song was released by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records on December 11, 2014 as a single , and peaked at number 49 on the US Billboard Hot 100 commercially, upon release. [ 6 ]
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