Old School Fridays: Social/Political Songs

I discovered this meme over at Malcolm's page. The rules are as follows:

This meme was developed by Marvalus View and Ms. Grapevine. The rules are simple:

1. Anyone can participate; any music genre
2. Old School is defined as music created before 1999
3. No offensive words allowed, please use edited radio version
4. Post a video of your favorite Old School song to take us back down memory lane
5. Add your name to the meme list so that others can check you out
6. Have fun & don't forget to leave comments for other participants.

This week's theme is Social/Political Songs.

Ok, so what song did I chose? This actually required some serious thought. I am a big fan of social/political songs. I am one of those people that still believe that music can change the world. There were the obvious ones, such as John Lennon's "Imagine" or Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" or Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind." But one of my favorite songs is one that was the brain child of Little Steven. Little Steven was better known as Miami Steve from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. When he decided to go solo he became Little Steven. He decided to release a song about the problems in South Africa and decided that instead of putting it out under his name he would ask his friends to perform on it. At the time his friends included some of the biggest names in the music business. So here it is, "Sun City" by Artists United Against Apartheid.