In The Year 2525 was a one-hit-wonder from the Nebraska folk-rock duo of Denny Zager and Rick Evans, who imaginatively named their group Zager & Evans. Probably karmically appropriate for a song this anxious to dominate the radio in Was a spooky folk-Sci-Fi song about the threat of toxic technology. Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight champion of the world, was convicted of evading the draft and stripped of his title after refusing to join the military.Īnd while all of this was going on, the top song in the USA
Edward Kennedy, the man who was supposed to become the next president, plead guilty of leaving the scene of an automobile accident on Martha’s Vineyard and more or less killing a young woman. The Vietnam War raged on race riots set major cities on fire. The grooviest things were going on while society was disintegrating around us. It was really something live through the summer of 1969.
August 15 -18, hundreds of thousands of people converged on a farm in Upstate New York for the Woodstock Festival, An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music,tripping and dancing in the rain, giving my generation its defining moment.
On August 9 and 10, the Manson Family slaughtered eight people, including a pregnant movie star. It hit Number One just before the Apollo 11 moon landing, when on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. The song reflects the apprehension of the summer, but also the wonder of technology. The Year 2525 stayed at Number One for an astonishing six weeks in JulyĪnd August, longer than any other song that year, earning the distinction of being Temptations all had Number One hits in 1969, but a little ditty titled In