"American Pie" by Don McLean: Everything You Didn't Know
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The Beatles and the Summer of Love
In verse four, we find the chaos of the 60s in full force. The birds flew off to a fallout shelter eight miles high and fallen fast. This seems to be the summer of 69 when the youth generation gathered at Woodstock just weeks after Neil Armstrong became the very first human to walk on the moon. Flash forward a few months to the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont in December of 69 when drug use led to violence at the hands of the Hells Angels. As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clenched in fists of rage. No angel born in Hell could break that Satan's spell.
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