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Carl E. Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Mon Jan 22 07:29:08 EST 1996


> Now I have a question pertaining to HW: There's a line in the song "Urban
> Guerilla", during the chorus: "We used up all of
> our magic powers trying to DO
> IT IN THE ROAD." Do you think this is a referrence to the Beatles song? It
> would seem to make sense: The hippy/peace stuff didn't work, and now they're
> talking about a more violent form of rebellion.

        That's always been my assumption.  The "White Album" was, what?
1968?  So 5 or 6 years before "Urban Guerilla" ('72? '73?) so the Beatles
song was probably reasonably fresh in people's minds the way well-known
songs from ~1990 would be today.

Cheers,
Carl



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