摘要：called his sentiments facile. Some artists were discouraged from writing political-ly charged songs by their managers – an exemplary case being the initial rejection by Tamla Motown's Berry Gordy of Mar-vin Gaye's "What's Going On." Gordy told Marvin Gaye that he was "ridiculous" when Gaye proposed a protest record, whilst musical director Maurice King gave The Temptations a lesson in Hitsville's politics of caution; "Do not get caught up in tell-ing people about politics, religion, how to spend money or who to make love to, be-cause you'll lose your fanbase". Other artists also struggled with their political identities. The FBI held extended files on many famous musicians, with artists such as John Lennon, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs viewed as threats to national security throughout the 1960s and 70s. COINTEL-PRO (the covert branch of the FBI) which, since 1956, had been surveilling, infiltrat-ing, harassing,
