Jon Savage on song: Bobby Jameson rages against the Vietnam war

This garage-punk classic is a vehement statement against a war that, by early 1966, was spiralling out of controlA fanfare of slow, church organ chords – straight out of a horror film – resolves into a brutal Bo Diddley beat. A few blasts of harmonica carry the riff, and then a full-throated voice begins to testify. It's a stitch-up he's complaining about, and we're not talking pop-art clothes: "Senators the congress and the politician man, well they all got me in the mess I'm in/ Said I go...

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