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"Killing in the Name" is a song by the American rock band Rage Against the Machine, and appears on their 1992 self-titled debut album. It features heavy drop-D guitar riffs. The lyrics protest police brutality , inspired by the beating of Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles riots .
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971. Denied writing credit by Fox and Gimbel, Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart.
Howlin' Wolf recorded "Killing Floor" in Chicago in August 1964, which Chess Records released as a single. [2] According to blues guitarist and longtime Wolf associate Hubert Sumlin, the song uses the killing floor – the area of a slaughterhouse where animals are killed – as a metaphor or allegory for male-female relationships: "Down on the killing floor – that means a woman has you down ...
Joe DeVito, a 26-year-old songwriter from Yonkers, wrote a song about the killing of Brian Thompson. It has received hundreds of thousands of views. (Jack Ludkey (@highwaysnobbery) / The Independent)
The band performed the song as "Killing an Ahab" with lyrics inspired by Herman Melville on 2011's Reflections Tour. [13] During the band's 40th anniversary tour, the lyrics and title were changed back to "Killing an Arab". [14] The band performed the song as "Killing Another" to close out the final show on their tour in December 2022. [15]
It was released on November 6, 1992, by Epic Records, [7] four days after the release of the album's first single, "Killing in the Name". The album was based largely on the band's first commercial demo tape of the same name, completed 11 months prior to the album's release. The tape contained earlier recordings of seven of the ten songs.
"The Killing Moon" is a song by the English rock band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 20 January 1984 [ 2 ] as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Ocean Rain (1984). It is one of the band's highest-charting hits, reaching number 9 in the UK Singles Chart , and often cited as the band's greatest song.
On Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, 20-year-old J'oni Travis, whose rap name is "Lucc Bagz," pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the killing of Foster.