Resonant Music
The concert included several well-known protest songs and others which received an added resonance from the occasion. The songs included:
- Free Nelson Mandela by Jerry Dammers
- Biko by Peter Gabriel
- They Dance Alone by Sting
- Sun City by Steven Van Zandt
- Mandela Day by Simple Minds
- I Just Called to Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder
- Amazing Grace, sung by Jessye Norman
Simple Minds wrote Mandela Day for the event and recorded it for the first time (it was later released on the album Street Fighting Years and was the AA-side of the EP Ballad of the Streets featuring the A-Side Belfast Child, a No.1 on the British charts in 1989).
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Famous quotes containing the words resonant and/or music:
“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We’re no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”
—Jane Rule (b. 1931)
“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It’s the music a man’s spirit sings to his heart, when the earth’s far away and there isn’t any more fear. It’s the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)