“Working Class Hero” by Green Day

play music video

“Working Class Hero” by Green Day

	song info     “Working Class Hero” by Green Day (official video) is a punk rock song. The official video includes a discussion of Darfur.     Song Title: Working Class Hero (official video)     Artist: Green Day     Album: Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur     Genre: punk rock, rock, alternative rock     Composer: Copyright © 1970 John Lennon     Lead Vocals: Billie Joe Armstrong     Backing Vocals: Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool     Guitar: Billie Joe Armstrong     Bass Guitar: Mike Dirnt     Drums: Tré Cool     Percussion: Tré Cool     Producer: Green Day     Released: 1 May 2007     Label: Warner Bros., Amnesty International     Number of listens: 34145     Current rank: 72 (updated weekly)     Highest rank: 20 (play the video all the way through to register a vote for this song) Translations courtesy of Apple and Google.

    Summary quotation from Wikipedia:

    In 1973, US Representative Harley Orrin Staggers heard the song — which includes the lines “’Til you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules” and “But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see” — on WGTB and lodged a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The manager of the station, Ken Sleeman, faced a year in prison and a $10,000 fine, but defended his decision to play the song saying, “The People of Washington, DC are sophisticated enough to accept the occasional four-letter word in context, and not become sexually aroused, offended, or upset.” The charges were dropped. Other US radio stations, like Boston’s WBCN, banned the song for its use of the word “fucking”. In Australia, the album was released with the expletive removed from the song and the lyrics censored on the inner sleeve.

—from Wikipedia (the Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License applies to Wikipedia’s block of text and possible accompanying picture, along with any alterations, transformations, and/or building upon Wikipedia’s original text that ThisSideofSanity.com applied to this block of text)

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and U.S. Government Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 require that web sites provide transcripts of audio for the deaf.
We will be adding lyrics to all songs as fast as we can. Please be patient.

most recent comment

    Charlotte: I love Green Day.

    To submit a comment, use the form below:

    Please use the form (with the delay for a human to inspect it) because this website is attacked by more than 20 spam attempts per minute. The only way to keep you safe from the spam is by having human review.