interview-Renowned music journalist on ”Anthem We Love”

Steve Baltin looks at 29 iconic songs and shares the stories of how they came to be written, how they were received and why they became anthems. Steve explains that anthem have two characteristics: they are "timelessness" and "universality". We talk about two examples: Barry Manila's "Could It Be Magic", Earth Wing & Fire's "September", Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Save the World", and Linda Ronstadt's "Skylark". The book also features Don McLean's "American Pie", "God only knows" by the Beach Boys, Toto's "Africa", Janis Ian's "At Seventeen", Th eTemptations' "My Girl", CSN&Y "Our House", The 5th Dimension's "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In' and more!