"Paul Hardcastle Paul Louis Hardcastle is a British composer, musician, producer, songwriter, radio presenter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his song ""19"", which went to number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1985. Born in Kensington in London in 1957, he is the son of Joyce (""née"" Everett, 1930–1991) and Louis Hardcastle (1915–2000). Hardcastle achieved some success with his early singles, including the 1984 electro-funk/freestyle/instrumental track, ""Rain Forest"", which along with the track ""Sound Chaser"", reached number two on the dance chart. ""Rain Forest"" also hit number five on the soul chart and number fifty-seven on the"
"war. A number of punk rock bands from the 1980s attacked Cold War era politics, such as Reagan's and Thatcher's nuclear deterrence brinkmanship. A small sampling includes The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Government Issue, Fear, Suicidal Tendencies, Toxic Reasons, Reagan Youth, etc. Noted punk compilation ""P.E.A.C.E."" included bands from around the world in an attempt to promote international peace. The Scars covered apocalyptic poem ""Your Attention Please"" by Peter Porter, a radio broadcast announcing nuclear war. Probably the most famous of the 1980s songs against increased confrontation between the Soviets and the Americans was Nena's ""99 Luftballons"", which described the events"
"the Pops weekly chart show. The theme tune was used from 3 April 1986 to 26 September 1991. Hardcastle has also recorded several synth jazz albums, alternating releases under the pseudonyms Kiss The Sky (with Jaki Graham) and The Jazzmasters, as well as under his real name Paul Hardcastle. Hardcastle married Dolores Baker in 1985, and they have three children, including Maxine (born April 1986) and Paul Jr. (born August 1990). Their son Ritchie Max Hardcastle (born 1997) is Chairman of the Romford Young Conservatives. Paul Hardcastle Paul Louis Hardcastle is a British composer, musician, producer, songwriter, radio presenter, and"
"recorded in French, Spanish, German and Japanese. The song received the Ivor Novello award for Best-selling single of 1985. The song's English-language release came in three different 12"" versions - ""Extended Version"", ""Destruction Mix"" and ""The Final Story"", all with an alternative cover design. Hardcastle was inspired to create the song after watching ""Vietnam Requiem"", and comparing his own life at 19 to those of the soldiers featured: ""...what struck me was how young the soldiers were: the documentary said their average age was 19. I was out having fun in pubs and clubs when I was 19, not being"
"a version of ""War"" as the title track of their EP ""War on 45"". War (The Temptations song) ""War"" is a counterculture-era soul song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label in 1969. Whitfield first produced the song – an obvious anti-Vietnam War protest – with The Temptations as the original vocalists. After Motown began receiving repeated requests to release ""War"" as a single, Whitfield re-recorded the song with Edwin Starr as the vocalist, with the label deciding to withhold the Temptations' version from single release so as not to alienate their more conservative fans. Starr's"
"of the world. Hardcastle produced different mixes of the song to help maintain interest in it. Although the song did not climb as high in the United States chart, Hardcastle claims ""it outsold everybody else for three weeks solid, it only reached number 15, because back then the chart was based on airplay as well as sales"". The song was held back in the US by some radio stations refusing to play it, feeling that the song took an anti-American stance, something Hardcastle denies, noting he ""had tons of letters from Vietnam vets thanking me for doing something for them""."
"War (The Temptations song) ""War"" is a counterculture-era soul song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label in 1969. Whitfield first produced the song – an obvious anti-Vietnam War protest – with The Temptations as the original vocalists. After Motown began receiving repeated requests to release ""War"" as a single, Whitfield re-recorded the song with Edwin Starr as the vocalist, with the label deciding to withhold the Temptations' version from single release so as not to alienate their more conservative fans. Starr's version of ""War"" was a number-one hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in"
"The War Song ""The War Song"" is a 1984 song by the British band Culture Club which features background vocals by Clare Torry. It was the lead single from the band's third album ""Waking Up with the House on Fire"". The song became the group's seventh top-five hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number two. In the U.S. the single peaked at #17 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and hit the top ten in many countries including Canada (#7), Ireland (#1), Italy (#3) and Australia (#2). While very popular at the time, it was not appreciated by some"
"narrative that made sense in two seconds"". Hardcastle wasn't optimistic about the song's chances in the charts. His previous two singles for independent labels had failed to make it into the UK's top 40 and the musical policy at Radio 1 was felt to be unsupportive of dance music. News interest in the song helped, with the tenth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War seeing Hardcastle interviewed by Alastair Stewart of ITN. Tony Blackburn, then breakfast DJ for Radio London was an early supporter of the song and it quickly reached number 1 in the UK and most"
"list. In 1986, the song won ""Best Single"" at the Brit Awards. Band member and co-writer Roland Orzabal argued that the song deserved to win the Ivor Novello International Hit of the Year award, claiming that the winner—""19"" by Paul Hardcastle—was not an actual song, but only a ""dialogue collage"". In 2015, 30 years after its release, the song was honoured at the annual BMI Awards in London for achieving 6 million radio airplays. ""Everybody Wants to Rule the World"" is regarded as the group's signature song, along with ""Shout"" (1984). ""Everybody Wants to Rule the World"" was banned for"
"fierce topical songs to back direct action."" A song composed for the march, ""The H-Bomb's Thunder"", set the words of a poem by novelist John Brunner to the tune of ""Miner's Lifeguard"": <poem> Men and women, stand together Do not heed the men of war Make your minds up now or never Ban the bomb for evermore.</poem> Folk singer Ewan MacColl was for some time one of the principal musical figures of the British nuclear disarmament movement. A former agitprop actor and playwright. MacColl, a prolific songwriter and committed leftist, some years earlier had penned ""The Ballad of Ho Chi"
"Between the Wars (EP) Between the Wars was an extended play released by Billy Bragg in 1985. It reached #15 on the UK Singles Chart. The title track was inspired by the UK miners' strike (1984–1985). The choice of other songs on the record was also relevant to the dispute - ""Which Side Are You On?"" is an updated version of the American pro-trade union song of the same title from the 1930s, whilst ""It Says Here"" is critical of the political bias of British newspapers, most of which opposed the strike. The proceeds from sales of the record were"
"protect the Motherland and its people while his girl will preserve their love. While the song is joyful and filled with the imagery of a fertile, blooming land, it also conveys the sense that the motherland is under threat. ""Katyusha"" gained fame during World War II as an inspiration to defend one's land from the enemy. Blanter wrote several other highly popular wartime songs. His 1945 song, ""The Enemy Burned Down His Home"", about a soldier who returns from the front to find his entire family dead, became controversial when the authorities deemed it too pessimistic and banned its performance;"
"the charts when the follow-up, ""Two Tribes"", was released in May 1984. The anti-conflict song was given an aggressively topical nuclear war slant. Featuring sirens, the unmistakable voice of Patrick Allen (who had voiced the British Government's actual nuclear warning ads, ""Protect and Survive"", two years earlier) and another innovative electronic backing, it went straight into the UK charts at Number One and stayed there for nine weeks (the first single to do so since John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's ""You're the One That I Want"" in 1978), with total sales exceeding 1.5 million copies and becoming one of the"
"Express (1997). The song is featured in the video games ""Guitar Hero World Tour"" and ""Rayman Legends"". It is also available as downloadable content to """" The Anthrax version is heard during the rock war in the 2017 film ""It"". Antisocial (song) ""Antisocial"" is a song by the French hard rock band Trust, from their album ""Répression"". The song was written by Bernie Bonvoisin and Norbert Krief. Unusually for a hard rock track, it was played on mainstream radio stations RTL and France Inter, helping the album sell over 800,000 copies in 1980. Evoking a dehumanised, individualistic and brutal society,"
"World War, while some bands, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Hawkwind, referenced political issues occasionally and in a more observational than engaged way, e.g. in songs like ""Revolution"", ""Street Fighting Man"", ""Salt of the Earth"" and ""Urban Guerrilla"". Notable punk rock bands, such as Crass, Conflict, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Refused, American Standards, Discharge, MDC, Aus-Rotten, Anti-Flag, and Leftover Crack have used political and sometimes controversial lyrics that attack the establishment, sexism, capitalism, racism, speciesism, colonialism, and other phenomena they see as sources of social problems. Since the late 1970s, punk rock has"
"and elsewhere, but the band had been unable to come up with an effective arrangement. This time, however, they did. Springsteen taped the words of the song to his arm, prefaced the song with a spoken admonition not to blindly trust the government, leaders or anything else, and then he and the band performed a rock rendition. Springsteen released the September 30, 1985 performance as a part of his 1986 box set, ""Live/1975–85"". ""War"" was chosen as the first single from the set, and it was again a big hit, reaching #8 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. The music"
"Chumbawamba recorded several versions of traditional English protest as ""English Rebel Songs 1381–1914"". Ewan MacColl became the leading writer of English protest songs in the 1950s, with pro-communist songs such as ""The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh"" and ""The Ballad of Stalin"", as well as volatile protest and topical songs concerning the nuclear threat to peace, most notably ""Against the Atom Bomb"". The leading voice of protest in Thatcherite Britain in the 1980s was Billy Bragg, whose style of protest song and grass-roots political activism was mostly reminiscent of those of Woody Guthrie. Sea shanties are a type of work"
"Two Tribes ""Two Tribes"" is an anti-war song by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records on 4 June 1984. The song was later included on the album ""Welcome to the Pleasuredome"". Presenting a nihilistic, gleeful lyric expressing enthusiasm for nuclear war, it juxtaposes a relentless pounding bass line and guitar riff inspired by American funk and R&B pop with influences of Russian classical music, in an opulent arrangement produced by Trevor Horn. Supported by a striking advertising campaign depicting the band as members of the Red Army and a wide range of remixes,"
"1970, and is not only the most successful and well-known record of his career, but it is also one of the most popular protest songs ever recorded. It was one of 161 songs on the Clear Channel no-play list after September 11, 2001. The song's power was reasserted when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band took their rendition into the U.S. Top 10 in 1986. It was also covered by Frankie Goes to Hollywood in 1984 and more recently by the Rock band Black Stone Cherry on its 2016 album ""Kentucky"". The Temptations' version of ""War"", featuring Paul Williams"
"and programmes in a series of vignettes, interrupted by visual effects simulating poor television reception and other similar faults. Life in One Day The third single from Howard Jones' 1985 album ""Dream Into Action"", ""Life in One Day"" was another uptempo number, which lyrically warned against wishing one's life away. It reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 19 on the United States ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The 12"" version featured a pair of remixes of the lead track which were more obviously different in structure from the original than was the norm on Jones' previous releases. Part"
"by nuclear fallout. The track includes spoken words describing the flash from a nuclear bomb. Sting released the song ""Russians"" in 1985 directly addressing Cold War tensions and the policy of ""Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)"". ""Russians"" was not only a humanized expression of the Cold War conflict, pitting the fate of actual people against political rhetoric, but expressed the deep misunderstanding of political forces in calculating ordinary people's aspirations to live in peace (""I hope the Russians love their children, too""). ""To Have and to Hold"" from the 1987 album Music for the Masses from Depeche Mode opens with an"
"in the United States Army Special Forces, which was one of the very few songs of the era to cast the military in a positive light and yet become a major hit. Merle Haggard & the Strangers's ""Okie from Muskogee"" (1969), despite being strongly nationalistic, was listed in PopMatters's July 2007 list of the top 65 protest songs because it is, as the webzine puts it, in fact a protest against changing social mores, alternative lifestyles, and, well, protests [...] In a time when protest songs filled the airwaves, it is ironic that Haggard scored his biggest hit protesting the"
"One (Metallica song) ""One"" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the third and final single from their fourth studio album, ""...And Justice for All"" (1988). Written by band members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, ""One"" is an anti-war song that portrays a World War I soldier who is severely wounded — arms and legs blown off by a landmine, blind and unable to speak or move — begging God to take his life as he feels constant pain. His only hope is to devise a way to communicate with the hospital staff. In"
"features on the Max Richter soundtrack of the film. It was also used in the films """" and ""Ex Machina"". Enola Gay (song) ""Enola Gay"" is an anti-war song by the British synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) and the only single from the band's 1980 album, ""Organisation"". The track addresses the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II. It was written by vocalist/bass guitarist Andy McCluskey. Along with 1986's ""If You Leave"", ""Enola Gay"" has been described as OMD's signature song. The single was an international success, selling"
"Thatcherite Britain in the 1980s was Billy Bragg, whose style of protest song and grass-roots political activism was mostly reminiscent of those of Woody Guthrie, however with themes that were relevant to the contemporary Briton. He summarized his stance in ""Between the Wars"" (1985), in which he sings: ""I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage."" Also in the 1980s the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood released a political pop protest song Two Tribes a relentless bass driven track depicting the futility and starkness of nuclear weapons and the Cold War. The"
"would be difficult to play a smaller subdivision of the beat. Hardcore punk lyrics often express anti-establishment, anti-militarist, anti-authoritarian, anti-violence, and pro-environmentalist sentiments, in addition to other typically left-wing, anarchist, or egalitarian political views. During the 1980s, the subculture often rejected what was perceived to be ""yuppie"" materialism and interventionist American foreign policy. Numerous hardcore punk bands have taken far left political stances such as anarchism or other varieties of socialism and in the 1980s expressed opposition to political leaders such as then US president Ronald Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Reagan's economic policies, sometimes dubbed ""Reaganomics"", and"
"saying, ""Mine is the last voice you will ever hear. Do not be alarmed,"" in a tone similar to that used by him in the PIFs. Rock band Jethro Tull recorded a song called ""Protect and Survive"" on the 1980 album ""A"", also criticising the initiative. The title of a song by the hardcore punk/D-beat band Discharge featured a play on words (""Protest and Survive""), a reference to E. P. Thompson's anti-nuclear manifesto (see below). Heavy metal band Wolfsbane's self-titled album contains a song called ""Protect and Survive."" The Scottish rock band Runrig released a song entitled ""Protect and Survive,"""
"Cantwell contends that ""Hag"" was ""the most sustained and closest-to-coherent political statement of his career...The world Hag portrays on ""Hag"" is one teetering on the brink. From atop some middle-American watchtower, Merle delivers a nearly despairing state of the union."" The album opens with the Ernest Tubb World War II era-hit ""Soldier's Last Letter,"" a song that took on a new relevance in 1971 with America's continued involvement in the Vietnam War. Haggard addresses social issues plaguing the country at home, such as street violence (""Jesus Take Hold"") and homelessness (""Sidewalks of Chicago""). The LP also contains some of Haggard's"
"was recorded in French by Peter, Paul & Mary in 1966 and by Esther & Abi Ofarim in 1967. In the United States, it was a major anti-war song by Joan Baez during the Vietnam War. The song is in the form of a letter written to the French President by a man who states that he is going to refuse his call to arms and desert, and explains his reasons for doing so. In the late 1970s, the song was covered by nuclear protesters in Brittany, as a direct apostrophe to the fierce pro-nuclear French president Giscard d'Estaing in"
"English Civil War (song) ""English Civil War"" is a song by English punk rock band The Clash, featured on their second album ""Give 'Em Enough Rope"", and released as a single on 23 February 1979. It reached number 25 in the UK Singles Chart and number 28 in the Irish Singles Chart. The song is derived from an American Civil War song, ""When Johnny Comes Marching Home"", written by Irish-born Massachusetts Unionist Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore. It was popular among both sides of the conflict. Having learnt the song at school, Joe Strummer suggested that the band should update it. Those"
"leader at the time was Konstantin Chernenko. Also in the background, communications from the Apollo–Soyuz mission can be heard. Russians (song) ""Russians"" is a song by Sting, from his debut solo album, ""The Dream of the Blue Turtles"", released in June 1985, and released as a single in November. The song is a commentary and plea that criticises the then-dominant Cold War foreign policy and doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD) by the United States and the Soviet Union. The song speaks to both sides (""there's no monopoly on common sense/On either side of the political fence"") as it describes"
"Enola Gay (song) ""Enola Gay"" is an anti-war song by the British synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) and the only single from the band's 1980 album, ""Organisation"". The track addresses the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II. It was written by vocalist/bass guitarist Andy McCluskey. Along with 1986's ""If You Leave"", ""Enola Gay"" has been described as OMD's signature song. The single was an international success, selling more than 5 million copies, while the track became an enduring hit. Typical of early OMD compositions, the track does"