For decades, U.K. artists have used punk, pop and hip-hop music to share their feelings about the late Queen Elizabeth II — and what her reign represented.
But the relationship between British pop and the late monarch has long been much more fraught.
" is a case in point, with the whimsical lyric,"Penny Lane, there is a fireman with an hourglass/And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen."The song, which the punk band released in tandem with the Queen's Silver Jubilee, equates the monarchy with a right-wing dictatorship., a professor of media and communications at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches a class on pop music history.
English rock band The Smiths in March 1984. From left: bassist Andy Rourke, lead singer and songwriter Morrissey , drummer Mike Joyce and guitarist and songwriter Johnny Marr.English rock band The Smiths in March 1984. From left: bassist Andy Rourke, lead singer and songwriter Morrissey , drummer Mike Joyce and guitarist and songwriter Johnny Marr.
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