OPLE it on away H40.. the people ing for nothing at they really own in; singing... the people es and brothers own women back home the people ato more and more stuff and that's when arted dropping us. as very miserable. I apart from the first f making it - the thrill first number one the first trip to first we had some sort ective like being as big s- moving forward e great thing, but ac attaining it was the big wn. I found I was havntinually to please the people I'd always then I was a child. si began to bring me reality. I began to that we are all oppressich is why I would like something about it, b I'm not sure where my Then I started, Rock and self was the basic tion to people of my age tuation. We needed ning loud and clear to through all the unfeelid repression that had coming down on us kids.
change were a bit conscious to with of being imitation cans. But we delved into asic and found that it alf white Country-andi and half black on and blues.
st of the songs came Europe and Africa and hey were coming back to iny of Dylan's best eame from Scotland, a or England. It was a cultural exchange bugh 1 must say the interesting songs to me ne orack ones Occause ere more simple. They I said Snake your arse, ur prick, which was an aton really.
id then there were the mainly expressing in they were in, They t express themselves inally so they had to say mang to them. few words what was And then vas the City blues and a that was about sex and lot of this was selfon but only in the last ars have they expressed jes completely Willi Power, like Edwin Starr ng War records. Before that many black singers were 'still labouring under that problem of God, it was often "God will save us..
But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are trigntenea or nually, they're repressed in that way thought 'Paul is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble Also when Yoko and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters — you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came people living in Aldershot. Öfficers.
Now workers are more friendly to us, so perhaps it's changing. It seems to me that the students are now halfawake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.
Convince That is why the basic need is for the students to get in with the workers and convince them that they are not talking onnererook Aco cour t's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking:
because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.
So the only thing is to talk to them directly, young workers. start with them because the know they're up against it. I'd like to incite people.to break the framework, to be disobe dient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
Students I think it wouldn't take much to get the youth here Teary colle. give them free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who repression in the universities.
It's already happening, though people have got to get together more. And the women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.
It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting ori certain areas for Yoko. She's a red hot liberationist and was quick to show me where! Was all Wills it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally.
inat's wny terested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
especially the We've got to a wonderful freecountry, they've got tellies school.
their own.
are being You'd have to next.
Aware break up the Like Marx said, cording to his need' filtrate the army too, oppressed.
your even though I'm always inliving wage.
We have to make the workers aware of the really BY GIVING YOU NO TIME INSTEAD OF IT ALL TILL THE PAIN IS SO BỊG YOU FEEL NOTHING AT ALL A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE THEY HURT YOU AT HOME AND THEY HIT YOU AT SCHOOL THEY HATE YOU IF YOU'RE CLEVER AND THEY DESPISE TILL YOU'RE SO * CRAZY YOU CAN'T FOLLOW THEIR FOOL RULES A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE WHEN THEY'VE TORTURED AND SCARED YOU FOR 20 ODD YEARS THEN THEY EXPECT YOU TO PICK A CAREER WHEN YOU CAN'T REALLY FUNCTION YOU'RE SO FULL A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE OF FEAR A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE KEEP YOU DOPED WITH RELIGION AND SEX AND TV AND YOU THINK YOU'RE SO CLEVER AND CLASSLESS BUT YOU'RE STILL * PEASANTS AS FAR AS I CAN AND FREE SEE A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE THERE'S ROOM AT THE TOP THEY ARE TELLING YOU STILL BUT FIRST YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO SMILE AS YOU KILL IF YOU WANT TO BE LIKE THE FOLKS ON THE HILL A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE YES, A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE IF YOU WANT TO BE A HERO WELL JUST FOLLOW ME IF YOU WANT TO BE A HERO WELL JUST FOLLOW ME BLOODY SUNDAY