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On the other hand
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 Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:41 am Post subject: Pete Seeger is dead |
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Pete Seeger, the singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career championing folk music as both a vital heritage and a catalyst for social change, died Monday. He was 94 and lived in Beacon, N.Y.
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| Mr. Seeger was a prime mover in the folk revival that transformed popular music in the 1950s. As a member of the Weavers, he sang hits including Lead Belly’s “Goodnight, Irene” — which reached No. 1 — and “If I Had a Hammer,” which he wrote with the group’s Lee Hays. Another of Mr. Seeger’s songs, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,” became an antiwar standard. And in 1965, the Byrds had a No. 1 hit with a folk-rock version of “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” Mr. Seeger’s setting of a passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes. |
As one of the two or three central figure in that American folk revival, likely a pretty huge influence on popular music as we know it today. Where Have All The Flowers Gone is a haunting yet strangely catchy anti-war song.
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On the other hand
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happiness
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He just played some big event lately too.
What a legend. R.I.P. |
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