Song

For What It’s Worth: BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD

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+ scoll down for 2022 version by Stevie Nicks

Single:
For What It’s Worth entered the Australian singles chart* on 1 April 1967 and peaked at #98.

Songwriter:
Stephen Stills

Producers:
Charles Greene, Brian Stone

Record label of Australian release:
Atlantic

*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.

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BONUS TRACK BELOW: 2022 version by Stevie Nicks

Wikipedia:
Buffalo Springfield was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles by Canadian musicians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin and American musicians Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. The group, widely known for the song For What It’s Worth, released three albums and several singles from 1966 to 1968. Their music combined elements of folk music and country music with British Invasion and psychedelic rock influences. Like contemporary band the Byrds, they were key to the early development of folk rock. The band took their name from a steamroller parked outside a house.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Springfield

Songfacts:
Written by Buffalo Springfield guitarist Stephen Stills, For What It’s Worth was not about anti-war gatherings, but rather youth gatherings protesting anti-loitering laws, and the closing of the West Hollywood nightclub Pandora’s Box. Stills was not there when they closed the club, but had heard about it from his bandmates.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/buffalo-springfield/for-what-its-worth

Lyrics:
There′s something happening here
But what it is ain’t exactly clear
There′s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
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BONUS TRACK
Version released in September 2022 by Stevie Nicks

Stevie: “I am so excited to release my new song .. For What It’s Worth .. written by Stephen Stills in 1966. It meant something to me then, and it means something to me now.“
Explaining her decision to cover the song: “I always wanted to interpret it through the eyes of a woman – and it seems like today, in the times we live in, it has a lot to say.“

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