1969 : Herbie Mann, The Battle Hymn Of The Republic
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJT_acVUjV4
as mentioned in Hunter S Thompson’s The Battle of Aspen
His version of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” was American author Hunter S. Thompson’s campaign music in 1970 when he ran for sheriff of Pitkin County. It is also on the soundtrack to Wayne Ewing’s Breakfast With Hunter.
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played saxophones and clarinets (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music’s preeminent flautist during the 1960s.
Remembering the Turbulent Life of a ’Gonzo’ Writer
▻https://www.npr.org/2007/11/18/16339490/remembering-the-turbulent-life-of-a-gonzo-writer
des interviews audio
November 18, 2007 - Seymour, a young staffer at Rolling Stone who idolized Thompson, was supposed to meet Thompson at his airline gate, but Seymour missed him. Instead, he found Thompson sitting by himself on the floor in baggage claim. When Seymour extended his hand in greeting, Thompson demanded Seymour help him off the ground.
It was the beginning of a relationship that would last more than a decade. Seymour became Thompson’s assistant and was soon part of Thompson’s world — a world that included drugs, heavy drinking, rock stars, writers and artists. In a new book, Seymour and Jann Wenner, the founder, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, recount the turbulent life of the journalism pioneer best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Their work, Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, is an oral biography that features interviews with Thompson’s inner circle, including his ex-wife, his son, actors Johnny Depp and Jack Nicholson and old friends. Wenner and Seymour also trace how Thompson grew from a reactionary “Gonzo” journalist — using a style of writing where he injected himself into the story — to a writer who defined his generation.
▻https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic
The “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, also known as “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” or “Glory, Glory Hallelujah” outside of the United States, is a popular American patriotic song written by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe.
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