VIDEO: 'Detroit '67' blends past, present

The video for "Detroit '67" has been instrumental in spreading Internet buzz about the song. It alternates archival footage -- assembly lines, picket lines, Tigers, Red Wings, rioting and dancing -- with sequences of Sam Roberts wandering through contemporary Detroit. "We wanted to draw visual links between the way things were and the way they are," he explains. "Like the train station, one of the most beautiful buildings you'll ever see, even in decay." The clip (which can be viewed a...

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