Everyone's favorite pock rocker, Bryan Adams, yesterday played a benefit concert in Karachi, Pakistan, the proceeds of which will go to help rebuild schools destroyed in the recent earthquake. According to the article, Adams "moved the audience with 'Summer of 69,'" and so I thought it appropriate to compare Pakistan's tumultuous summer of 1969 with some of the events detailed in Adams' song.

In Bryan Adams' summer of '69, he got his first real six-string, which he bought at a five and dime.

In Pakistan's summer of '69, American diplomats attempted to leverage a sharp decline in Sino-Soviet relations by secretly contacting the Chinese, by way of Pakistan.

In Bryan Adams' summer of '69, he and some guys from school had a band and they tried real hard.

In Pakistan's summer of '69, the government declined to renew the United States' lease on the Peshawar military facility in response to a lack of US support during the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War.

In Bryan Adams' summer of '69, Jimmy quit and Jody got married.

In Pakistan's summer of '69, widespread riots led to the transfer of power from Ayub Khan to General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, who declared himself preisdent and "chief martial law administrator." By 1969, Pakistan had been under martial law for 11 years.


Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, left, and Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan, right, both of whom wished that summer could have last forever.

Analogcabin @ 10:21 AM
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