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Protest Songs: How sick will they get? asks Alan Smith

Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 24 September 1965

SING A SONG of protest — and you, too, could find yourself there in the charts. Suddenly a whole flood of these let's-put-the-world-right numbers has descended on the ears of the record-buying public. Some of them don't even want to put the world right — they just tell us things are in a heck of a mess, and that's that.

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