Nearly seventeen minutes long, it is his longest song and became his first to top a Billboard chart.
The words
The 1963 killing of John F. Kennedy is retold alongside a vast roll call of the music and films of the era.
The killing of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 is retold in close, haunting detail, as if the event had never finished happening. Midway, the song widens into a long request to a disc jockey, calling up songs, films and performers of the era, so the national tragedy and its soundtrack become tangled together. The tone is solemn and incantatory. Nearly seventeen minutes long, it unfolds slowly over piano and strings with almost no beat.
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The words
The 1963 killing of John F. Kennedy is retold alongside a vast roll call of the music and films of the era.
The killing of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 is retold in close, haunting detail, as if the event had never finished happening. Midway, the song widens into a long request to a disc jockey, calling up songs, films and performers of the era, so the national tragedy and its soundtrack become tangled together. The tone is solemn and incantatory. Nearly seventeen minutes long, it unfolds slowly over piano and strings with almost no beat.
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