Jon Savage on song: The Zombies – Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)

Colin Blunstone's first band does a great job of capturing the anti-war sentiment of the 1960s in this extraordinary songListen to Butcher's TaleBetween the end of the first world war and the start of the second, there was a gap of 21 years. The second world war ended in 1945, and 20 years later – during 1965 – the US greatly increased its military involvement in Vietnam, a conscription war that haunted a generation of young Americans and slowly tore the country apart.In Britain there was no...

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