Edit for headphones, April 2022. A song from the 1970 album "Zero She Flies" (label: "Collectors' Choice Music", catalogue number CCM-767). This song was released as a single in March 6, 1970, but it didn't chart. Maybe "Let It Be", released that same day, was too much competition. Or maybe "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "Knock, Knock Who's There", "All Kinds of Everything", "Spirit in the Sky", "Gimme Dat Ding", "Travelin' Band" or the Moody Blues' "Question". Tough times for a musician.
It is stated that the subject of this song is the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan (of Palestinian origin), who wrote in his diary that he wished Kennedy dead because, in Sirhan's opinion, he favored Israel too much.
ELECTRIC LOS ANGELES SUNSET
(Al Stewart)
shots split the night, the bullet lodged in his brain
he must have died instantlY he felt no pain
a crowd quickly gathered to the feast of the gun
waiting for the ambulance and cops to come
hmmm, sirens wail in the concrete
hmmm, electric los angeles sunset, the sunset, the sunset ohhh
headlight lit the faces by the tabernacle door
gazing at the bloodstains on the damp sidewalk
as the crowd turned to go, a man was heard to say
ah, he must have had it comin' to him anyway
hmmm, blood wagon rolls through the dragnet
hmmm, electric los angeles sunset, the sunset, the sunset ohhh
cadillacs roll through the smoggy perfume
the buildings 'r choking on oxygen fumes
evangelists praying in rented rooms in the afternoon
which way do the signposts read
african eyes in the sunrise
the gates of the city are rusted over and mouldering
the violence of the evening decays into the night
while shadows press like moths against the neon light
movie queues diffuse into the cinerama haze
while libertines read pornozines in street cafes
hmmm, the madman swings in the pulpit
hmmm, electric los angeles sunset, the sunset, the sunset ohhh
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