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One week later, he performed the song at a benefit concert for the families of those killed in the riots, which took place at the Apollo Theater in New York. [1] [3] This performance was released on the 1998 John Lennon Anthology box set. [1] Classic Rock critic Rob Hughes rated "Attica State" as Lennon's 10th best political song. [4]
"This Place Hotel" (originally named "Heartbreak Hotel") is a 1980 song by the Jacksons, written by Michael Jackson. While his brothers did not sing background vocals, they were credited with playing percussion on the album while brother Tito contributed a guitar solo.
The concept for the Bernstein album Prison was for Jesse to do a raw live performance at the State Penitentiary Special Offenders unit in Monroe, Washington in 1991. Jesse went with his manager Barbara Buckland, Bruce Pavitt from Sub Pop Records, Grant Alden (then a writer for Rocket magazine and later the co-founder of No Depression magazine ...
The lyrics to "Born in a Prison" use prison as a metaphor for the constraints society places on individuals. [1] [2] To music critic Johnny Rogan, the song reiterates themes from Lennon's earlier song "Working Class Hero" and equates all of life to a prison sentence. [3]
Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago.Agreeing to a request by jail warden Winston Moore, King and his band performed for an audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men.
In 2022, the family of Lonnie Hamilton, a former inmate at Marcy prison, was awarded $1.5 million in damages after a court found the state failed to meet its duty of care to prevent Hamilton’s ...
1924 sound recording of The Prisoner's Song performed by Vernon Dalhart. "The Prisoner's Song" is a song copyrighted by Vernon Dalhart in 1924 in the name of Dalhart's cousin Guy Massey, who had sung it while staying at Dalhart's home and had in turn heard it from his brother Robert Massey, who may have heard it while serving time in prison.
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