Rolling Thunder
2001 · Rhino RWF 1005 · USA
- Artist
- Paul Revere & The Raiders
- Title
- Rolling Thunder
- Release
- Ride to the Wall
- Year
- 2001
- Label
- Rhino # RWF 1005
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Rock · Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Post-2000s rock album, which featured an image of a soldier in Vietnam on the front cover, and which said that it was "dedicated to all the men and women who served in the Vietnam War". Released by the famous group Paul Revere & The Raiders, formed in 1958, Boise, Idaho, USA, originally led by Paul Revere (from 1958, until his death in 2014), but with a revolving line-up. Revere was born 7 January 1938 in Harvard, Nebraska, USA, and died 4 October 2014, in Garden Valley, Idaho, USA. The theme of the album was "Rolling Thunder", an organisation seeking accountability for prisoners of war (P.O.W.s) and missing in action (M.I.A.). Since 1987, Rolling Thunder held The First Amendment Demonstration Run, formerly called "Rolling Thunder Run to the Wall", a motorcycle rally on Memorial Sunday, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. There were an estimated 500,000 bikers for the Rolling Thunder ride to the National Mall in 2018. (1) (2) The title song "Ride to the Wall", was a patriotic tribute, which called the bikers the "Vietnam tribe", heading towards the memorial, from coast to coast. It paid tribute to the "veterans living and dead".The other song, "Rolling Thunder" is of course a…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs
Post-2000s rock album, which featured an image of a soldier in Vietnam on the front cover, and which said that it was "dedicated to all the men and women who served in the Vietnam War". Released by the famous group Paul Revere & The Raiders, formed in 1958, Boise, Idaho, USA, originally led by Paul Revere (from 1958, until his death in 2014), but with a revolving line-up. Revere was born 7 January 1938 in Harvard, Nebraska, USA, and died 4 October 2014, in Garden Valley, Idaho, USA. The theme of the album was "Rolling Thunder", an organisation seeking accountability for prisoners of war (P.O.W.s) and missing in action (M.I.A.). Since 1987, Rolling Thunder held The First Amendment Demonstration Run, formerly called "Rolling Thunder Run to the Wall", a motorcycle rally on Memorial Sunday, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. There were an estimated 500,000 bikers for the Rolling Thunder ride to the National Mall in 2018. (1) (2) The title song "Ride to the Wall", was a patriotic tribute, which called the bikers the "Vietnam tribe", heading towards the memorial, from coast to coast. It paid tribute to the "veterans living and dead".The other song, "Rolling Thunder" is of course a…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
American rock band formed 1958 in Boise, Idaho. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall · Mistreatment of Vet · Spitting Image · DMZ · Tet Offensive · P.O.W.