Shesdifferent wrote:
I presume you meant not playing? or else you only like PG!

Great song, but should be played sparingly, and at the appropriate time (whatever that means, ha).

xkolibuul wrote:

I think you may be right. I've not heard this for way too long. I really must find my PG albums and give them a listen or two!
Once again, RP reminds me of records I used to love.

PG has made a lot of wonderful music since Biko, but it is still his masterpiece.

such a Powerful piece, also a lasting call for attention to the history of Apartheid; and yes, the lingering history of thickheaded racists

Shesdifferent wrote:
Then listen to a different station. It's a free world. And this song is fantastic :-)

Biko will play a role in the upcoming US presidential election.

Fact.

Biko will live for ever in our hearts!

This is a great song. Great message. It reminds me of bagepipes playing. Not played enough.

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

imklammer wrote:
Of this I have no doubt, I will have to check it out!

imklammer wrote:
Is there a link to it? I've never heard of it before... This version guts me enough, with the song of rejoicing at the beginning, and the dirge at the end. I cry every time, because every time, it brings home the point that humans are selfish, stupid, and greedy, and if they cared even one whit about their fellow man, they'd never take a life.

"Port Elizabeth
Weather Fine ..."
There are VERY few songs where the first words kind of burned themselves into my mind.

And although I do think that the possibility of really changing something through music is a thing that is very rare, i do think that "BIKO" DID something: I remember a lot of people where so emotionally grabbed by the song and the video thar they simply could not treat apartheid the way they did before ...

and how godlike is THIS:

THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE WATCHING NOW !

indeed, they were. and it was way before twitter/facebook and all those internet devices which now make the world SEE.
prophetic!

sbegf wrote:
This, Salisbury Hill, Games Without Frontiers and In Your Eyes while great songs were and probably still are clear channel classic rock staples in regular rotation all over the corporate nation at the same level as Bohemian Rhapsody, Mississippi Queen, Radar Love and other run into the ground regulars.

This version is good but the version by Manu Dibango on "Waka Africa" just blows it away.

this song for me was the watershed moment where Peter transcended the rock singer/songwriter category into the true artist with a conscience category...this was not a marketing driven moment but a one of sober reflection and a focusing of the small spot light he could wield...

PG himself is musically and lyrically a 10, Thank God he went solo. Enjoy the Supremes Phil, that;s as far as your artistic taste can take you

tapatia1072 wrote: "This song always gives me chills. An outstanding homage indeed. Too bad that so many refused to confront the evils of apartheid and divest from South Africa - including the Reagan administration and a number of multinational corporations."
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Was it all acceptable under Carter, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, etc.? Do you think they did not get Executive Briefings that gave them insight into what was going on in S.A.?

Anyway, great song.

Shesdifferent wrote:
Peter Gabriel is somewhat of an RP cross-over artist (as is Bowie), who's mainstream enough to appeal to moderates in the various RP tribes but is unlikely to do anything but annoy the tribe fanboys. Or maybe he's just overplayed, I donno.

sirdroseph wrote:
I think you would be hard pressed to find regular FM listener's who have ever heard of the PG song Biko, they would probably give a dear in the headlights look. Oversaturation is a stretch (only played here once every few months).