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Another Classics Shuffle, and this week's classic shuffle result is the
1975 protest-song
Hurricane, by American singer/song-writer
Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) has been in the news lately with his recent music tour in Asia, and he was born May 24, 1941
(aged 70 at present) in
Duluth,
Minnesota, U.S.A.. I am really not going to go into the trivia on him because he has whole books dedicated to his biographical history and musical contributions, so if you really want that sort of stuff you can always start with his
Wikipedia page
HERE. The song Hurricane was written by Bob Dyland, and co-written with
Jacques Levy, about the imprisonment of
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African American (and well-known middleweight boxer in the 1960's) who was falsely imprisoned in 1966 for a triple murder and who wasn't released from prison until 1985 after a number of re-trials that were eventually ruled in 1986 as having been "based on racism rather than reason and concealment rather than disclosure," although by that time Carter had already served around 19 years of his life behind bars. For more on that story, you can check out the 1999 motion picture
The Hurricane which is based on Carter's life-story. The song was released on Dylan's 1976 album Desire.
BobDylan-Hurricane by manon42
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