Tonight’s mystery artist wrote a song that criticized an American president yet later on came to be used as an anthem for American freedom.  Can you guess the song??

We’ll start with the president in the site; that would be George Bush Senior.  Wikipedia says: ‘Rockin’ In The Free World” written by Neal Young criticized the George H.W. Bush Administration,and the social problems of contemporary American life, directly referencing Bush's famous "thousand points of light" remark from his 1989 inaugural address and his 1988 presidential campaign promise for America to become a "kinder, gentler nation." The song was performed for the first time live in 1989. Despite this theme, the song became the de facto anthem of the collapse of communism, because of its repeated chorus of 'Keep on rockin' in the free world'.

Here is a great live version from "Farm Aid"

 

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