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Ye Nuns
Song of the Day: After yesterday's songs about the beatified Joan of Arc, another Catholic and military connection, but with a twist – a cover band performing a new song written specially for them by a member of the band they cover
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Joni Mitchell in the early 1970s
Song of the Day: After two previous colourful entries, let's enter the vividly depicted world of the Canadian singer-songwriter, here taking us from Los Angeles to Paris and back on a journey of street and field scenes that capture big issues old and new.
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An original single cover for Street Fighting Man (1968)
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Fast Fuse by Kasabian, a track that also quickly fires up passions, and is highly influential – recorded 50 years ago during an unprecedented period of demonstrations and riots
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Grace Slick with Jefferson Airplane
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Frightened Rabbit, it was simply too tempting to follow down this particular hole in this wondrous psychedelic number written and sung by Grace Slick
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Malcolm Browne's photograph of a self-immolating monk protesting against the killing of Buddhists by a US-backed Vietnamese regime in 1963
Song of the Day: With the Trump regime, a North Korean conflict, and much more besides, it's time to unleash the ultimate song of defiance, still raging against foreign policy and the corruption of power
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The Monks in 1965
Song of the Day: From the humorous anger of Lou Reed, we dip into a lost classic by influential garage and punk pioneers – five GIs stationed in Germany who shaved their heads
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The Temptations
Song of the Day: Written by two of Motown's greatest songwriters in 1970 in the shadow of Nixon and the Vietnam War, it remains equally relevant during today's troubling political and social uncertainty
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