Pete Seeger
‘I ate acid for two months straight. It was the best time of my life’: Americana anarcho-punk Sunny War on booze, drugs and the KKK
She’s the finger-picking blueswoman whose life was changed by the punk band Crass – and went viral for busking while homeless. She talks about ghosts, her ‘smelly’ childhood and fighting the far right
Alexis Petridis
07, Mar, 2025 @9:00 AM
March on Washington: the day MLK – and Dylan and Baez – made hope and history rhyme
Sixty years ago, at the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King changed America. But there was more to the day than just his ‘I have a dream’ speech. There was music too
Charles Kaiser
28, Aug, 2023 @6:00 AM
Neil Diamond's teenage obsessions: 'The Brooklyn Dodgers betrayed me and broke my heart'
As his 80th birthday approaches, Neil Diamond reminisces about Pete Seeger, the Everly Brothers and how a baseball team’s desertion led him to the guitar
Interview by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
12, Nov, 2020 @2:30 PM
Civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome freed from copyright
The first verse of the song, which has come to symbolize the spirit of protest, is no longer under copyright after a New York verdict
Edward Helmore
12, Sep, 2017 @12:31 AM
Music makes me cry my eyes out – here’s a guide to the tracks of my tears | Simon Hattenstone
Songs that induce weeping do you good, a study suggests. As a man who knows all there is to know about the crying game, I could have told you that
Simon Hattenstone
13, Apr, 2017 @10:02 AM
Fred Hellerman obituary
Folk singer and songwriter who co-founded the Weavers
Derek Schofield
06, Sep, 2016 @11:55 AM
FBI snooped on singer Pete Seeger for 20 years
Bureau amassed a massive 1,800 page file on composer of classic songs over suspicions about his links to the Communist party
Vanessa Thorpe
20, Dec, 2015 @12:05 AM
The playlist: folk and world – Van Morrison, Peggy Seeger and Hindi Zahra
Celtic jazz from Van the Man, soulful funk from Morocco and revisiting Pete Seeger via Bruce Springsteen – all this and more in this month’s selection
Robin Denselow
09, Jun, 2015 @4:44 PM
Ronnie Gilbert obituary
Female vocalist with the Weavers, the folk group blacklisted by the FBI in the 1950s
Derek Schofield
08, Jun, 2015 @2:57 PM
Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and others: Songs of the Spanish Civil War review
This intriguing compilation focuses on music made by and for US soldiers who joined the fight against fascism in Spain, writes Robin Denselow
Robin Denselow
04, Dec, 2014 @11:15 PM
Letter: When Pete Seeger reduced a conservative audience to silence
Garth Prince writes: Pete Seeger's performance started as a singalong and ended as the most effective political statement I have ever seen
Garth Prince
20, Feb, 2014 @6:42 PM
Farewell, Pete Seeger
Ed Vulliamy and Rufus Wainwright salute the American folk singer Pete Seeger, one of the last heroes of a generation that still believed in change
Ed Vulliamy and Rufus Wainwright
02, Feb, 2014 @10:00 AM
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