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"Political statements in heavy metal became common during the late Eighties, as evidenced by Metallica&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Disposable Heroes,&amp;quot; Megadeth&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Peace Sells&amp;quot; and Living Colour&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Cult of Personality.&amp;quot; Living Colour&amp;apos;s Vernon Reid wanted the latter&amp;apos;s lyrics to focus on the mass appeal of certain world leaders. As the guitarist said, &amp;quot;I was thinking about how Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were all very handsome. They had very profound things to say, and I just thought it was really weird that these are cats that are very important politically/socially, but they also look like matinee idols.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Cult&amp;quot; not only features&amp;#xA0;a Zeppelin-esque guitar riff played by Reid,&amp;#xA0;but it also has the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, uttering the final quote in the song."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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