People's Republic of Rock and Roll

Steven Maas (CUTR) maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu
Thu Oct 24 12:37:46 CDT 1996


On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Tom Stanton wrote:

> Ted Samsel wrote:
> >   Didn't this first show up in the late '60s with the Detroit scene
> > of the MC5 and the White Panthers?  Free John (somebody...)
> 
> Free John Sinclair!
> 
> Jailed for pot selling but was a set up as I recall. Huge
> Ann Arbor/Weatherman issue.

Lennon even wrote a song about him.  I believe it was on the, shall we
say, _interesting_ album Sometime in NYC. 





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