"It Came Out of the Sky" is a song the iconic American band Creedence Clearwater Revival which was published in the directory of your hard Willy and the Poor Boys (1969), which is considered by the specialized press as one of the most interesting musical works as contains a package of great songs that have marked the course of this band originally from El Cerrito .
Within the magnificent repertoire of this record found a rock and roll in the purest style Chuck Berry. This song is called "It Came Out of the Sky, a song fun but with a harsh critique of U.S. political power and was recorded during the autumn of 1969.
In it, John Fogerty download his talent as a composer to describe, under a special irony, apocalyptic story of a spatial object (something like suchas meteorite) that falls on land and cause different reactions in society. These are exploited by media and politicians to exaggerate by putting up the occasional spice of greed and paranoia.
So in point is mentioned in a hidden way Spiro Agnew, who was then at that time as vice president during the administration of the controversial President Nixon . He was also in those instances where a character was labeled as narrow-minded, harshly criticizing the liberal media and crossed out the anti-Vietnam Hippies "dirty Snob's" .
Now, why Fogerty put in your letter to "Spiro" (Spiro meat and made a speach about raising the Mars tax ") has a relationship with the legendary space race. Is that during the term of Nixon, Agnew also served on the National Aeronautics and Space Council where he had a very populist role after informing the people that they would do everything possible to go Mars based on the ideas of an aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun , who had a perfect plan to conquer the red planet .
So it was like a 4th of August 1969, von Braun under the support of the White House, presented their ideas, drawings of their ships space and all the technology necessary for a voyage through space, giving dates of departure for 1982. After hours and hours of speeches, exhibitions and discussions, the government and senior politicians decided to cancel the project because it required a lot of money. Obviously the time was used by Nixon and co. to manipulate information to the media and hide the occasional failure of government.
Another that appears to ring in this song is Mr. Ronald Reagan (specifically the phrase: "Ronnie the popular say's it Was a Communist plot" ), who in those years was the Governor California , and was widely criticized by his opponents for his veneer of "populist" and sale of "bread and circuses" to the masses, where the only thing that ruffled was the subject of communism, where he began to beat his league talking "fished "against the political ideal.
Like Reagan, Fogerty download all your heavy irony to the Vatican, the media and the false euphoria of the people who are moved by a story so stupid to follow behind the stealing and hiding information relevant to society. It would not be strange if someone compare with some events that occurred months ago in some parts of the world ... In this case all revolves around the meteorite that fell in a U.S. sector.
Anyway, another genius in the hands of John Fogerty and company, a classic piece of rock and roll which also contains a critique of the political system of his country under a cloud of furious guitars that call to hang out and think in your context ...
Enjoy!
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