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Pop, love, war and politics Pop, love, war and politics: These words work together – a bit like north, south, east and west. They pretty much sum it up, really... life, existence and the whole nine yards. Pop has an insatiable appetite – for itself, too. In a musical sense it can be any genre – music sells itself and everything else, including love, war and politics. Love is a good place to start – its logic: we crave trust, respect, compassion and empathy; the things we need for love to work. Politics: To create order, there must be a leader. The leader must have power to maintain order. Too much power, and sometimes the wrong answer is... war. Not just in the political sphere, but everywhere: sibling rivalry, husband against wife, employee against employer, country against country, religion against religion, ego against ego. At the end of the day, most of us want it, and some of us work towards it, peace, that is – maybe a song can change the world. John Lennon sure had a good