STILL ROCKIN’ TO STOP NUKES

Sun and Wind and Rock 'n' Roll: A Three-Decade Journey
Clint Wilder, August 1, 2011 (Clean Edge)

"News item: Several months after a crippled nuclear reactor disaster that shocked the world and upended long-term global energy strategies, a group of prominent rock musicians have scheduled a historic benefit concert on August 7, 2011. Performers led by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Crosby Stills & Nash, the Doobie Brothers, and John Hall, under the banner Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE), plan to raise funds and awareness against nuclear power, and in favor of clean-energy sources like solar and wind."

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""That very same paragraph, with a different concert date, could have been written 32 years ago – simply substituting Three Mile Island for Fukushima as the nuclear disaster, and New York City’s Madison Square Garden for Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California as the concert venue. This same group of musicians (Browne, Raitt, Hall, and Graham Nash) formed MUSE and played what was actually a series of five concerts in New York in September 1979, with a subsequent record album (yes, on vinyl) and concert film release. They also helped lead a Sunday afternoon rally on the Battery Park Landfill in Manhattan attended by 200,000 people…"