How Do Musicians in the 1960s Promote Their Music Though the Counterculture?
Question by Helpme…: How do musicians in the 1960s promote their music though the counterculture?
I mean “through”
Best answer:
Answer by spooky_eerie_spooky
Ha-that is funny.
I know nothing about music other than to listen to it. I did get into a world of trouble in high school for a paper/speech I gave to an assembly. The subject was drug addiction and I used Mick Jaggers poem “Mother’s little helper”-which later became a big hit of the many the Stones had.
If your not familiar it told of all the “MamaJunkies” addicted to Valium given to them after childbirth. My instructor at the time trusted me in the fact that I seldom needed notes to speak-so never really had any idea what I was going to say. I used some stats that said something to the effect that 80% of the teachers who were mothers as well were also addicts-more than likely true but that was not the time for such a discussion.
The poem is easy to find on any of the many, many sites for the Stones music-it could easily be shown-not the way I did it however-that he-Mick Jagger-was promoting the bands music with a counterculture that was a faucet of legal society. I had the lyrics memorized for years but age has caught up with me.
Kids are different today / I hear eve’ry mother say / Mother needs something today to calm her down / And though she’s not really ill / There’s a little yellow pill / She goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper / And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
still so funny after all these years
s_e_s
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