Patriotic Amercians will of course forget, but Pete Seeger came to Australia 1963

banned from performing in America as a flow on from the McCarthy era. Paul Robeson similarly had come here earlier to sing to the workers outside the Sydney Opera house. Land of freedom right!? I attended, as an 18-19 year old, receptions and performances, just before the Beatles arrived here.

But then Came Bob Dylan!
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