What is a song you know that references a (near) accident, a (near) catastrophe, a historical event, etc? See comments for examples: "We almost Lost Detroit" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 8 months ago

What is a song you know that references a (near) accident, a (near) catastrophe, a historical event, etc? See comments for examples: "We almost Lost Detroit" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 8 months ago

Gil Scott Heron - We almost Lost Detroit - YouTube

We Almost Lost Detroit

We Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader’s Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America’s first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown.

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Spoken word and rap pioneer Gil Scott-Heron has a song titled “We Almost Lost Detroit”, dealing with the same issue.

HexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 8 months ago

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