"Freedom" relaunched Neil Young's career, after a mostly unsuccessful decade. The album is opened with "Rockin' in the Free World".
According to Neil Young's biography Shakey, while on tour in the late '80s, Young and Frank "Poncho" Sampedro looked at photos in a newspaper of the Ayatollah Khomeini's body being carried to his grave. These images showed mourners burning American flags in the street, which incited fear in Poncho. Sampedro commented, "Whatever we do, we shouldn't go near the Mideast. It's probably better we just keep on rockin' in the free world". Young asked if Sampedro was using that for the basis of a song and when Sampedro said no, Young said that he would instead.
The lyrics criticize George H.W. Bush and make specific references to his administration and the social problems of late Twentieth Century America.
According to Neil Young's biography Shakey, while on tour in the late '80s, Young and Frank "Poncho" Sampedro looked at photos in a newspaper of the Ayatollah Khomeini's body being carried to his grave. These images showed mourners burning American flags in the street, which incited fear in Poncho. Sampedro commented, "Whatever we do, we shouldn't go near the Mideast. It's probably better we just keep on rockin' in the free world". Young asked if Sampedro was using that for the basis of a song and when Sampedro said no, Young said that he would instead.
The lyrics criticize George H.W. Bush and make specific references to his administration and the social problems of late Twentieth Century America.
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