Blog: Idolator

I contributed a few blurbs to Spin 's October feature "Strange Bedfellows," which detailed the odd nexus where rock music and politics convene. One entry was about the first copyright-snubbing cut-up artist Dickie Goodman and his 1973 assemblage "Soul President Number One." In it, the first "soul" president is elected, quotes Barry White and the Temptations, and appoints Superfly to head of the FBI. Here's Dickie's skewed take on the 1980 presidential campaign: I mused then that—were Barack [...]