Keep on Rockin' in the Free World 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 🇬🇷 🇪🇸 Just do it without America

“I don't like TV. Never have. It always sucks and there's nothing you can do about it. I was trying to get to the place where I would be when I did 'Rockin’ in the Free World' during my live show. To do that I had to ignore Saturday Night Live completely. I had to pretend I wasn’t there. I had a dressing room, a little place with an amp in it, in another part of the building. And I walked from there into Saturday Night Live—and then left. I developed a whole new technique for television. I had my trainer, and we just lifted weights and I did calisthenics to get my blood to the level it would be at after performing for an hour and twenty-five minutes—which is usually how long I’d be onstage by the time I did that song. To perform that song the way it’s supposed to be performed, you have to be at peak blood level. Everything has to be up, your machine has to be stoked. You can’t walk on cold and do that or you’re gonna look like a fuckin’ idiot. So that’s what I did. I tried to warm up and come on, like, y’know, not part of the show. Like they changed the channel for a minute.”

--Neil Young
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin'_in_the_Free_World

"AMERICA IS NO LONGER THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD..."

—Stephen Marche
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marche

... and in Canada, we are on a war footing
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-canada-...

For much of the 20th century and the Cold War, the President of the United States (POTUS) was called "the leader of the free world" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States

There's colours on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

Rockin' in the Free World is a song by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young, released on Young's seventeenth studio album Freedom in 1989. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin'_in_the_Free_World

The Free World is a propaganda term, primarily used during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991, to refer to the Western Bloc and aligned countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_World

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Taken on: January 1, 1989

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