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1969 OK, featuring Cronkite Satellite

from 1969 - album (2019) by HöFLICH

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I had so much fun writing this song "1969 OK", recording it, and making the crazy video that accompanies it. It is actually the first part of a three-song sequence that caps the album, more on that later. It is a very personal song for me as it is about the year of my birth, and kinda-sorta the title track of the album. It may not need explaining, but the reason that the album title and this song title are different is that the album title is a sneaky nod to a famous 30-year-old pop star, while the song title is a sneaky nod to the Stooges (obviously, the first song on their debut album - released in 1969 - is called "1969", and it opens with the line...).

I designed the structure to have a long, trippy instrumental section that was custom-built for collaboration. And so the story goes, I shared the song with my friend Cronkite Satellite - he loved the song and gave me some awesome guitar and keyboard material! Thanks a million Cronkite!!

The video has a lot of pictures from my childhood (but probably not many that were actually snapped in 1969). It also has some interesting symbolism - sometimes tied to other tracks on the album - and I got real lucky making it when some of the visual effects worked out spectacularly in peculiar ways that I could not have anticipated in advance. I was also lucky to get help with the track from some amazing musicians, to whom I will always be in debt. I hope you have as much fun with this song as I did!!

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I was born in the Sixties, I’ve got rock ‘n’ roll in my bones
My favourite singer is Bob Dylan, and I love the Rolling Stones
We had the greatest albums from the coolest bands
But the world was going crazy, things got out of hand
MC5 kicked out the jams, the Stooges said it’s okay
Johnny Cash played San Quentin, little Pete had his birthday
Back in the Spring of ‘69

I was born in the Sixties, I’ve got rock ‘n’ roll in my soul
Sixty-nine was a year for us to reckon and behold
The first two from Led Zeppelin, two more by Pink Floyd
Creedence put out three man, Brian Jones up and died
The Beatles played a rooftop, then gave peace a chance
A ballad for John & Yoko, Butch Cassidy & Sundance,
Back in the Spring of ‘69

I was born in the Sixties, rock ‘n’ roll was like pure gold
I was too late for the Fifties (that’s the Police – or so I’m told)
The Beatles crossed Abbey Road, in a Yellow Submarine
We heard from Elvis in Memphis, The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
Nixon in the White House, Manson on the road
Morrison in the jailhouse, Woodstock overload
Back in the Spring of ‘69

I was born in the Sixties, I’ve got rock ‘n’ roll on my brain
I take a journey through the past and feel it pumping in my veins
The Gap, Walmart, Wendy’s, the Internet cocoon
China fought the Russians, Armstrong walked the moon
The birth of Monty Python, the Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo
The death of Ho Chi Minh, and Eisenhauer too
Back in the Spring of ‘69
Back in the Spring of ‘69
Back in the Spring of ‘69

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from 1969 - album (2019), released December 6, 2019
Words, music, throat, guitar, feedback: Peter
Guitars, atmospherics, arrangement: Cronkite Satellite
Bass, drum programming, inspiration: Mike
Guitars: Benjie
Recorded & mixed by: Loong, Finding My Sound Productions

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HöFLICH Singapore

Peter Hoflich is a musician living in Singapore. He has sung in the rock bands MegalomaniA, the Hideous Motör-Apes, Reckless Hearts, Von Doom and The Sinisters, as well as the folk unit the Es with Athena Desai and Jae Lee. He also performs his own acoustic songs from time to time, and is trying a few experimental things in the home studio. ... more

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