“The assassinations were in much more poor taste than our band. We actually respect the Kennedy family… When JFK was assassinated, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, when RFK was assassinated, the American Dream was assassinated… our name is actually homage to the American Dream.” – Dead Kennedys’ guitarist East Bay Ray on the band’s name.

After the tragic death of saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, his friend poet Ted Joans began writing “Bird Lives” all over New York City. The campaign took a life of its own, and BIRD LIVES can still occasionally be found scrawled on sidewalks, walls and bathroom stalls.

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