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Mark Nash's avatar

Fantastic piece, thank you! It’s astonishing that this was never released as a single

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david drayer's avatar

Set the scene: 1972. Harrisburg City Island (middle of the Susquehanna River). Strip races across the bridge, hundreds of people on the island selling and buying (16-year-old me well into my psychotropic period), war, riots, still in the Duck and Cover days, government announcing a shoot to kill order against looting...and this song is everywhere crossing every divide. The strange and unusual thing is none of us could figure out what Mick was singing. We got the message by osmosis. Ellen does it again, crossing the divide and linking past with present through music.

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