Instant simulacra of dissent
Watching the advert for this album flicker limply across the television screen numerous times recently, I have cursed the general halfarsedness of it all. As it happens, Long Sunday agrees with me - quoting Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, who contributes a version of ‘Working Class Hero’:
When asked why they chose the song, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said, “We wanted to do ‘Working Class Hero’ because its themes of alienation, class, and social status really resonated with us. It’s such a raw, aggressive song — just that line: ‘you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see’ — we felt we could really sink our teeth into it. I hope we’ve done him justice.”
Yep. It’s all about doing justice to John Lennon [and other nostalgic memories of Real Social Change]. Glad we’ve got that in perspective.