Neil Young recently told reporters, "I think that the time when music could change the world is past." But for longtime New York radio host Pete Fornatale, an album born in the social and political turmoil of 1968 still holds great potential. He joins us to talk about the Simon & Garfunkel classic "Bookends."
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Pete FornataleMusic and the Power to Change
At a press conference for his new Crosby Stills Nash & Young documentary, Neil Young told reporters that “the time when music could change the world is past.” It’s time for science and spirituality so save the planet, the 62-year-old songwriter added. Perhaps Young is on to something. Or perhaps ...
Simon, Garfunkel, and 'Bookends'
The classic Simon & Garfunkel album "Bookends" was released in 1968, an election year filled with social turmoil and an increasingly unpopular war. Forty years later, the political landscape in the United States is filled with the rhetoric of "change," some of it aimed at the war in Iraq. But ...