In 1985, the protest group Artists United Against Apartheid which included Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and U2 took a less nuanced stance and pledged (in a song titled Sun City) not to play there.

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And (unintelligible) actually said, why you just write a song called "The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma"?

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They kicked off the session with the new song "Behind the Sun, " about the state of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

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Also picked out by the judges was our film where we uncovered the true and heart warming origins of the classic song Seasons in the Sun.

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Crow says she went to her doctor after forgetting the lyrics to her hit song "Soak Up the Sun" while performing.

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"The New Love Song, " the opening track from Joshua James' debut album The Sun Is Always Brighter, is misleading at first.

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The song incorporates a major theme of the film: following the direction of the sun, as well as your heart.

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We used to cover a science song - in fact, we still do - called "Why Does The Sun Shine, " which is from a bunch of science - the question of science songs that came out when we were kids with Tom Glazer - and I don't know if you're familiar with this record.

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But with "Tiny Cities, " Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon makes an argument not just for his own abilities as a song interpreter but for the underappreciated songwriting skill of Isaac Brock.

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The song's lazy banjo and junkyard rhythms effectively paint a portrait of hot workdays in the sun and Hooverville-inspired landscapes.

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