Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young OHIO/COST OF FREEDOM - Atlantic 45-2740 ('70 VG+)
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CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG - OHIO / FIND THE COST OF FREEDOM - ATLANTIC 45-2740 (1970)
One of America's greatest all-time atrocities would have to be the "Kent State Killings". On May 4, 1970, the National Guard was called in to break up an anti-Vietnam protest that students had been carrying out, but things took a turn for the worse when the soldiers began firing tear gas and their rifles into the crowd, leaving four dead. Like the majority of others at the time, David Crosby was disgusted and horrified about what happened, and encouraged his bandmate in CSNY, Neil Young, to pen a song on the spot about what happened (after showing him the cover of Time magazine). The result was "Ohio", one of CSNY's greatest tracks. The rest of the band immediately congregated at a nearby studio and recorded Young's new composition, which mixed his anger and hostility towards then-president Richard Nixon for letting such a crime take place. The song was released as a single only one week after the killings (backed by another new CSNY track, "Find the Cost of Freedom") and proved to perfectly sum up the disgust that young America was feeling - the single climbed to number 14 on the charts and proved to be the last new song issued by CSN&Y until 1988.
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