Father and Son is a popular song written and performed by English singer-songwriter Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam, after his conversion to Islam in 1977) on his 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman. As the title suggests, the song frames an exchange between a father...
We Will Not Go is a song by American composer, producer, singer, songwriter and social activist Josh Ralph, known professionally as J. Ralph. It was written and composed for the 2014 British documentary film Virunga, directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. The documentary focuses on the conservation work of rangers within Virunga...
Eve of Destruction is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1964. Several artists have recorded it, including The Turtles who recorded it at first in their first album It Ain’t Me Babe earlier in 1965 but released it as a single only in 1970. The most famous recording was...
War Pigs is a song by worldwide known English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It is the opening track of their second studio album Paranoid, released in 1970 and often regarded as one of the most quintessential and influential albums in heavy metal history. The album contains several of the...
Woke up this Morning is a song by English band Alabama 3 (also known as A3) from their 1997 album Exile on Coldharbour Lane. The song became famous as the theme song for the HBO TV show The Sopranos, but it was around long before the show and remained...
“The Nobodies” is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It is the third and final single from their fourth studio album, Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), released in 2001. Like several of the songs in the album, this was inspired...
People living with HIV accessing antiretroviral therapy As of March 2015, 15 million people living with HIV were accessing antiretroviral therapy, up from 13.6 million in June 2014. - 41% of all adults living with HIV were accessing treatment in 2014, up from 23% ...
Thomas Richard “Tom” Paxton is one of the most famous american folk singer and songwriter. Paxton’s songs can be emotionally affective and cover a wide range of topics, from the serious and profound to the lighthearted and comical, at the same time. His extraordinary narrative skills bring the...
Paul Frederic Simon is an American musician, actor and singer-songwriter. Simon’s fame, influence, and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote nearly all of the pair’s songs, including three that reached No. 1...
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a Ghanaian investigative journalist born in the late 1970s who specializes in print media and documentaries. He is famous for utilizing his anonymity as a tool in his investigation arsenal: just a few people have seen his face and his biography is still mostly...
When talking about music which “has been a tool for rebellion, revolution and political change” and “has been influential in political movements and protest“, Cálice, by Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil, should be in the top 10 of any chart. Francisco “Chico” Buarque de Hollanda and Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira are two of...
Brighter than a Thousand Suns is a song by Iron Maiden, included in their 2006 album A Matter Of Life And Death. This song is about the “Trinity“ experiment led 70 years ago, on the 16th of July in a, that brought the atomic bomb to life, also...
John Butler Trio are an Australian roots and jam band led by, and named after, guitarist and vocalist John Butler, an APRA and ARIA-award winning musician. His recordings and live performances have met with critical praise and have garnered several awards. Apart from their great musical skills,...
Iron Maiden are without any reasonable doubt one of the most influential band in music history. Born in London in 1975, they are still on the stage with fifteen studio albums and 30 years of career behind them. They are also one of the few world-famous band to be...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the first but still less known and most denied genocide of the 20th century. Just 21 countries in the world have recognised the bloody massacre of almost 1,5 million of Armenians in 1915 as “genocide”. Mostly because the Turkish...
