- Harsher in Hindsight: 1984's "Drag It Down" laments an old statue being pulled down, as "The new books said he wasn't such a great man after all". The sentiment of that verse lands very differently in the 2020s, after the death of George Floyd, with Edward Colston's statue hurled into Bristol harbour and several statues and monuments associated with racism removed in the USA.
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