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Anti-War Songs - The horrors of war and promoting peace

Featuring Radiohead, Metallica, U2 and John Lennon...

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Edwin Starr: 'War' – One of the most popular protest songs ever committed to plastic, the 1970 Motown smash hit is buoyed by the chorus “"War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!”. The track was aptly adopted by the anti-Vietnam War movement in the early 1970s.

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