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he Holocaust is so historically
cataclysmic that even song-
writers without a family link
to it have wrestled with the subject in
song throughout the rock era. (David
Axelrod, primarily a jazz composer-
producer, devoted an entire album to
it in 1993, Requiem: The Holocaust.)
Rock songs dealing with the
Holocaust could fill at least one
album. Here are the songs that
would appear on it:
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• "Never Again" by Remedy: The
Long Island rapper combed ancient
Jewish prayers, hip-hop rhythms, an
ominous melodic undercurrent and
vivid lyrics, creating the most dra-
matic, gut-wrenching portrait of the
Holocaust ever painted in song.
"Never again — shall we march like
sheep to the slaughter/Never again
— shall we sit and take orders,"
Remedy declares. From the 1998
compilation The Swarm: WU Tang
Presents the Killa Bees and Remedy's
2001 release The Genuine Article.
• "Lithuania" by Dan Bern: Hitler and
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men escorting Draiman on stage
and putting him in a "shower" that
began to spew gas. He explained
on the Web site Unearthed. com that
what we're talking about here isn't a
Jewish thing. It's a people thing. It's
the ultimate example 'dhow the
world deals with people who do not
fit in."
the Holocaust are a recurring theme in
Bern's music, but nothing is as cathar-
tic as "Lithuania." Long and angry, it
includes these lines: "I sometimes want
to dance on Hitler's grave and shout
out/Grouch° Marx, Lenny Bruce,
Leonard Cohen, Philip Roth, Bob
Dylan, Albert Einstein, Woody Allen,
Abby Hoffman, Leonard Bernstein,
Harry Houdini, Sandy Koufax!'" Bern
has not yet put the song on an album.
• "Crucifiction Lane" by Procol
Harum: Band lyricist Keith Reid says
this song sums up his feelings engen-
dered by the arrest of his father on
Kristallnacht, the disappearance of
his grandparents in Austria during
the war, and the subsequent anti-
Semitism he was subjected to in
school while growing up in England.
He viewed it as his obituary, the
story of man who was denied the
basic right to exist. From Procol
Harum's 1969 album A Salty Dog.
• "Attic" by Jill Sobule: The Denver-
born singer-songwriter conjures up
the ghost of Anne Frank when she
asks in a wistful, almost naïve tone:
"Would you have hidden me in your
attic?/That's the question I'd like to
know." The acoustic tune is fragile,
striking a delicate balance between a
pretty melody and a series of disturb-
ing questions. From Sobule's 1997
album Happy Town.
• "Dachau Blues" by Captain
Beefheart & His Magic Band:
Disjointed and atonal, musically grat-
ing to pop sensibilities, Beefheart, who
is not Jewish, croaks in a gruff voice,
"Dachau blues those poor Jews/Dachau
blues those poor Jews/One madman/six
million lose." From Beefheart's 1969
album Trout Fish Replica.
• "Deliver Me" by Sonia Dada: The
song the Chicago-based rock 'n' soul
band included on its self-titled 1992
debut is about a hard-luck African-
American asking God to "deliver me
from the pain and my confusion/
growing up in the city street in a
hopeless situation." Bandleader Dan
Pritzker originally wrote "Deliver Me"
after watching the PBS Frontline docu-
mentary Memory of the Camps in
1987. The song went, "God won't you
deliver me/from the pain and my con-
Joel's 1985 hit "Keeping the
Faith," sums up the nature of his
work in a song title.
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Classical Rocker
Keith Reid, the nonperforming
member of the British classical-
Billy Joel, left: "Keeping the Faith."
rock band Procol Harum who pro-
The tone of my work is very dark. ), vided the lyrics for the band's 10
Piano Man
albums from 1967 through 1977
and
a reunion album in 1991,
Billy Joel, whose resume lists more
In one of life's great ironies, Howard
bears
emotional scars that he traces
than thirty Top-40 hits from 1974
Joel was drafted in 1943, sent back ro
to
the
Holocaust.
through 1993, developed - resilience,
Europe, fought in Italy and was
"The tone of my work is very dark,
toughness and determination from his
among the troops who liberated
and
I think it's probably from my
father, a World War II refugee, who
Dachau, the infamous Nazi concentra-
background
in some subconscious
though absent much of Billy's life, was
tion camp in southern Germany.
way,says Reid. Best known for co-
an example of fortitude. (His mother,
"I had relatives that were in concen-
writing the international hit "A Whiter
Rosalind, who raised Billy as a single
tration camps —although not Dachau
Shade of Pale," Reid is the grandson of
parent, also served as an example of
— and some of them were put to death. Holocaust victims.
dogged determination.)
But at Dachau, it was terrible. We were
His father, a Viennese lawyer fluent in
Joel's grandparents and father,
too late to help," Howard Joel told
a
half
a dozen languages, was one of
Howard, barely got out of Germany in
Billboards Timothy White in 1994.
6,547
Jews arrested in Vienna during
1939, before the Nazis implemented
It's no coincidence that so many of
Kristallnacht, Nov. 9-10, 1938. The
their plan to exterminate the Jews of
Billy Joel's songs champion the under-
majority of Viennese Jews were sent to
Europe. The blows of losing their
dog. He has paid tribute to unemployed Dachau, then released several months
business and Nuremberg home, being
steelworkers in 'Allentown," disparaged
later after promising to leave the country.
forced to flee, and spending three
Vietnam
veterans
in
"Goodnight,
Reid's father, Irwin, fled to
years as refugees in Cuba may have
Saigon," and to Long Island fisherman
England
along with a younger broth-
caused the Joels to keep their Jewish
struggling to make a living in "The
er.
The
paternal
grandparents Keith
roots under wraps when the family
Downeaster Alexa," illuminating the
never
knew
vanished.
Their fate was
arrived in the United States in 1942.
dignity and resolve in each.
never determined.