The utopian idea of building a new society based only on freedom and love was greatly diffused across the world through music and television, planting the idea in every viewer’s head of the possibility of change. Revolution taps into this idea of personal revolt with the listener-addressed line: “You say you got a real solution”. By the time the song comes out, Lennon had witnessed and been inspired by the May ’68 Paris student riots, in addition to the presence of extremely violent images on TV covering the shameful disaster taking place in Vietnam. The Beatles support social change, but not when the means to get it are violent (“But when you talk about destruction/Don’t you know that you can count me
The utopian idea of building a new society based only on freedom and love was greatly diffused across the world through music and television, planting the idea in every viewer’s head of the possibility of change. Revolution taps into this idea of personal revolt with the listener-addressed line: “You say you got a real solution”. By the time the song comes out, Lennon had witnessed and been inspired by the May ’68 Paris student riots, in addition to the presence of extremely violent images on TV covering the shameful disaster taking place in Vietnam. The Beatles support social change, but not when the means to get it are violent (“But when you talk about destruction/Don’t you know that you can count me