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Cool trivia. The keyboard/synth player on this, David Sancious, was the original keyboardist for Bruce Springsteens's original E Street Band. He is featured on Bruce's first two albums,and the occasional track on Born to Run. Check out his solo recordings.

You might deplore his politics, but his politics saved his life. Draftees had a higher mortality rate than "volunteers". I am close to his age, by a few years. He made his decision 48 years ago, and this is his sole anti-war song. And it's a love song.

Thanx for the posting. At the time, this was just a side project for the Move (who had actually recorded an earlier version). It exploded on the charts, and Jeff and Roy made their respective decisions to stay or go. As it turns out, Jeff's decision worked out well for him, and Roy drifted into o...

In the summer of 1976, I had a late night/early morning radio show at KUNM in Albuquerque called "The Suicide Machine". This is the kind of music I would play from 1 am to 6 am on Saturday mornings. Early Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Passport, Pink Floyd, Return to Forever, Tomita, Jeff Beck, and ...