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- From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
- Subject: Re: John Sinclair
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.230951.25619@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 23:09:51 GMT
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- dh3q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel U. Holbrook) writes:
-
- >I was just listening to a tape of some tunes off of a friend's John
- >Lennon CD, somne box set/big hits deal, and there is a song about
- >freeing some guy named, I believe, John Sinclair. Can anyone tell me
- >who he was and what the deal was? Thanks
-
- The song is from John's _Some Time In New York City_ album (not to be
- confused with _Live in New York_).
-
- It is protesting "Sinclair's imprisonment for ten years for possesion
- of a very small amount of marijuana" according to "Working Class Heroes"
- by Stannard & Tobler.
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- James Willer
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