His concert at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in May last year featured a lengthy onstage broadside against Donald Trump, and his long history of political activism and recording songs that speak truth to power includes an entire album of tracks made popular by one of the masters of the protest song,

The Vietnam War was a tragic and stressful time in the world, particularly for American soldiers, veterans, and the families they left behind. As a result of the very polarizing war, a lot of protest music debuted during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Across the last 30 years of Venezuelan history, music has served as a series of emotional lifeboats. In a nation defined by turbulent decades of staggering collapse, different songs have arrived at pivotal moments to keep the collective spirit afloat.