Fascinating Fact #7: Street Fighting Man was inspired by the rising violence among student rioters on Pariss Left Bank -- the precursor to the famous May 1968 uprising. Mick Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Jann Wenner in Rolling Stone: Yeah, it was a direct inspiration, because by contrast, London was very quiet...It was a very strange time in France. But not only in France but also in America, because of the Vietnam War and these endless disruptions. ...I thought it was a very good thing at the time. There was all this violence going on. I mean, they almost toppled the government in France; DeGaulle went into this complete funk, as he had in the past, and he went and sort of locked himself in his house in the country. And so the government was almost inactive. And the French riot police were amazing.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 23:31:07 +0000
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