Panic in Detroit: The 1967 Riots!
See my current (8/24/2011) predictions for riots in Detroit:
http://marcboxbaum.com/2011/08/24/panic-in-detroit/
Hard times for the country back in '67!
. "Panic in Detroit" is a song written by David Bowie for the album Aladdin Sane in 1973. Bowie based it on friend Iggy Pop's descriptions of revolutionaries he had known as a youth in Michigan. It is also believed to have been written about the 1967 Detroit riots. Rolling Stone magazine called the track "a paranoid descendant of the Motor City's earlier masterpiece, Martha and the Vandellas' "Nowhere to Run"".
Musically "Panic in Detroit" has been described as a "Salsa variation on the Bo Diddley beat", and features prominent conga drums and female backing vocals. The lyrics namecheck Che Guevara and are also said to contain references to John Sinclair of the White Panther Party.
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See my current (8/24/2011) predictions for riots in Detroit:
http://marcboxbaum.com/2011/08/24/panic-in-detroit/
Hard times for the country back in ’67!
. “Panic in Detroit” is a song written by David Bowie for the album Aladdin Sane in 1973. Bowie based it on friend Iggy Pop’s descriptions of revolutionaries he had known as a youth in Michigan. It is also believed to have been written about the 1967 Detroit riots. Rolling Stone magazine called the track “a paranoid descendant of the Motor City’s earlier masterpiece, Martha and the Vandellas’ “Nowhere to Run””.
Musically “Panic in Detroit” has been described as a “Salsa variation on the Bo Diddley beat”, and features prominent conga drums and female backing vocals. The lyrics namecheck Che Guevara and are also said to contain references to John Sinclair of the White Panther Party.
Getting old and fat? http://bit.ly/bKZiex
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nice photo at 2.20 . peace moment or not ?
British musical genius. Two different urban revolts. Dozens of photographers. Thank you for making this.
I lived at the Parkside Projects on Conner . Watched national guard tanks and halftracks and trucks full of guards going up and down the street. Watched helicopters land at a nearby park. Went to the party store for some of the guys. I was 12 years old. I could see the smoke filling the sky from miles away.
I'm McNichols and Telegraph. My grandparents were Fenkell and Meyers, previous to their retirement years, lake front, Lake Huron. Before the Jeffries Freeway, we took 8mile, to "Old Gratiot", to the THUMB. My Grandma called my Ma, told her to gather all our shit, and meet at the cottage. We did. We relied upon Canadian radio, tv, and phone calls.
A lot of these pics are not from the '67 Detroit Revolt. Or from 1967.
who can credit the photo at 2:24?
thanks
Yesterday is today !
Grew up going to the Church of the Incarnation 10331 Dexter Ave. Detroit in the sixties. Lived in Dearborn. The boarded up church is still there on Google maps. I remember the riots and seeing a tank I was 9 years old.
OMG! when Federal Judge Kavanaugh is made a Superior Court Judge (for the rest of his life!), women will burn Washington D.C. to the ground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-0
the image at 1:45 had to have won an award. does anyone know this?
WHAT DO WE WANTWHEN DO WE WANTI want telephony and accurate with compliance consitantly
We went cruising down 8 mile to Gratiot Ave well after the curfew was imposed and went sight seeing of the devastation and first hand inhaling the blinding smoke along the way of all of the eastside of Detroit. It was a hot evening and we were tossing beers to National guardsmen in a jeep that pulled along side of us. When we finally headed to go back home we were pulled over by some belligerent Warren cops one block from 8 Mile Rd. and one block from my buddy Skip's house. We pulled an Eddie Haskell and weaseled our way out of getting hauled in to the jail~~Overall we had a fun and memorable time
Just another day in "the greatest country" on earth. This country has been coming apart at the seems since it was created through slavery and genocide.
some of these pictures are actually from the 1943 riot.
Panic in Detroit!
Great images. Loved the end comment,"actors. None".
it was a merely political matter:civil rights,racism,and,of course, they were against the war…
lived it … saw it… remember it…thank you.