Sun City (1985)
Sun City is a 1985 protest song written by Steven Van Zandt, produced by Van Zandt and Arthur Baker and recorded by Artists United Against Apartheid to convey opposition to the South African policy of apartheid. The song declared that all the artists involved would refuse to perform at Sun City, a resort which was located within the bantustan of Bophuthatswana, one of a number of internationally unrecognized states created by the South African government to forcibly relocate its black population.[1]
Key Lyrics
Relocation to phony homelands
Separation of families i can't understand
23 million can't vote because they're black
We're stabbing our brothers and sisters in the back
We're gonna say
Ain't gonna play sun city
Our government tells us we're doing all we can
Constructive engagement is ronald reagan's plan
Meanwhile people are dying and giving up hope
Well this quiet diplomacy ain't nothing but a joke
We're gonna say
Ain't gonna play sun city
I ain't gonna play no no
