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When Pop Went Political: Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

David Burke, Classic Pop, June 2018

IT WAS A PARTY staged to express solidarity with the world's most famous political prisoner, while concurrently expressing vehement opposition to an overtly racist system that had governed for decades. A perfect synthesis of pop and politics.

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