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Privilege (Set Me Free)
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Wikipedia article
"'Privilege (Set Me Free)'" is a song by the Patti Smith Group and released as the second single from their 1978 album 'Easter'. The original version of the song was titled "Free Me" and was written by Mel London and Mike Leander for the 1967 film 'Privilege'. Patti spoke sections of Psalm 23 over the instrumental bridge among other lyrical additions.
Liner notes
The following is quoted from the album:
:the title track from the john hayman-peter watkins production of the film privilege. a movie that
:merged the rock martyr (paul jones) with all the images of the sixties...the cross..
:the christ..the whip and the lashes that served to veil velvet weeping balls-the eyes
:of jean shrimpton.
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