

Violence on the screens, pillage and burning,” Jagger told Rolling Stone. The entire album, Jagger said, was inspired by the times. “Gimme Shelter,” written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, was included on the 1969 Let It Bleed LP. It was a society facing imminent collapse, so I threw ‘anarchy’ into that mix, even though there weren’t that many anarchists running around at the time.” There would be trash everywhere, it felt like the downfall of Western civilization – we’re talking race riots, the National Front. They certainly had no money I had to bunk on the subway just to get to rehearsals. Young people were constantly being told that they had no future. The people running the country at that time were running it into the ground, with a pompous us-and-them attitude that Margaret Thatcher would come to exemplify. “Then there I was all of a sudden, a singer in a band. “The ideas in that song had been rattling around in my head for years, but I had never had an outlet,” Lydon explained in Mojo.

The school system has permanently put you down as a no-hoper. You feel repressed from your early life onwards. “It creates a real serious violence in you. “It is coming from the claustrophobia of endless dreary concrete housing estates,” John Lydon, also known as Johnny Rotten, told Los Angeles City Beat. “Anarchy in the U.K.,” the 1976 punk rock anthem by the Sex Pistols, depicts the civil unrest in Britain during the 1970s.
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“I got the imagery from an old movie called The Devil and Daniel Webster,” John Fogerty told Rolling Stone. Released in 1969, “Bad Moon Rising” was a Top 10 hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival.


This Top 11 Apocalypse Songs originally ran a few years ago - it’s been revamped and repurposed for 2020, when things seem … strange out there.
