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Midnight Ride is the fifth studio album by American rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders. The album featured the U.S. top five single " Kicks " and also includes " (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone ," which became a U.S. Top 20 hit for The Monkees in 1967.
[1] The trio were intercepted by a British Army patrol in Lincoln. Prescott and Dawes escaped but Revere was returned to Lexington by the patrol and freed after questioning. By giving the minutemen advance warning of the British Army's actions, the ride played a crucial role in the Patriot victory in the subsequent battles at Lexington and Concord.
Samuel Prescott (August 19, 1751 – c. 1777) was an American physician and a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War.He is best known for his role in Paul Revere's "midnight ride" to warn the townspeople of Concord, Massachusetts, of the impending British army move to capture guns and gunpowder kept there at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Midnight Ride may refer to: Midnight Ride, a 1990 American action/thriller; Midnight Ride, an album by Paul Revere & the Raiders "Midnight Ride" (song), a 2024 song by Orville Peck, Kylie Minogue and Diplo; Paul Revere's Midnight Ride in 1775 at the beginning of the Revolutionary war
[5] Bruce Eder of AllMusic called it "a great song that managed to be cool and anti-drug." [6] In his 2009 book, Everybody Must Get Stoned, author R. U. Sirius named "Kicks" the number one rock song against drugs. [7] Sirius said, "With clear and concise lyrics by the famous Mann-Weil songwriting team, there's no cheese on rock's first anti ...
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The Paul Revere Capture Site marks the location where Sons of Liberty member Paul Revere was captured by a British Army patrol at around 1.30 AM on April 19, 1775, while on a midnight ride to alert nearby minutemen of the pending arrival of British troops.