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Related Headlines • • • On the evening of February 21, 1989, veteran rocker Neil Young (b. 1945) and his band unleash a scorching new song, 'Rockin' in the Free World,' at Seattle's Paramount Theatre (911 Pine Street). In addition to boasting a powerful electric guitar-based tune, the song also features scathing lyrics aimed, in part, at the cynical policies of the new administration of President George H. Young, esteemed for his sometimes gentle and poetic folkie songs, is simultaneously admired for his occasional forays into political commentary in such hit tunes as 'Ohio,' which famously marked the May 4, 1970, shooting of anti-Vietnam War protesters by National Guard troops at Kent State University. The exact origins of 'Rockin' in the Free World' are, alas, shrouded in a minor bit of mystery. One story -- related in the 2002 book Shakey: Neil Young's Biography by Young's associate Jimmy McDonough -- asserted that the song was sparked while Young and his band, the Restless, were out on tour. McDonough wrote that Young and his guitar-player, Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro, were reading the newspaper and saw coverage from Iran of mourners torching American flags during the funeral procession for their deceased Supreme Leader, the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

That's when Sampedro -- thinking ahead to some upcoming European tour dates -- supposedly said: 'Whatever we do, we shouldn't go near the Mideast. It's probably better we just keep on rockin' in the free world' (McDonough). It was a catchy phrase that immediately sparked Young's keen songwriting instincts. Unlock Code Sniper Ghost Warrior.

Problem with that tale was that Khomeini actually died on June 3, 1989 -- four months after the Seattle show. In the decades, years, and months leading up to early 1989, East Berliners had suffered material and cultural deprivation in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. Their society was simmering with palpable resentment toward their government and somewhere between 100 and 200 defectors had been shot by soldiers as they attempted escapes to West Berlin. The last to die, Chris Gueffroy (1968-1989), was killed on February 6, 1989.

From there unrest in the streets accelerated, and ultimately led to the fall of the wall on November 9, 1989. Interestingly, the song wasted no time in leveling a snarling and sarcastic rebuke to the campaign pledge by newly inaugurated (on January 20, 1989) President Bush to help make America a 'kinder, gentler nation' than it had been during the preceding eight years of what many saw as the Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) administration's cowboy diplomacy and warring. (Perhaps the song was also a rebuke or response of sorts to the controversy that Young had raised in some circles during that earlier administration by expressing -- or appearing to express -- support for some of Reagan's policies.) Adding to the attack, Young's new song also served up another jab at Bush's inaugural-address rhetoric about the good people of America being 'a thousand points of light' that, through citizen volunteerism, would mitigate the societal ramifications of conservative trickle-down economic policies. In his blistering song Young sang. On September 30, 1989, Young performed 'Rocking in the Free World' for the whole world on NBC's Saturday Night Live television show. Then, on October 2nd, the tune was released on the album Freedom -- which included both studio and live versions of the song -- and it quickly took on a life of its own.