They Can't Take Away Our Music

They Can't Take Away Our Music

Infobox Single
Name = They Can't Take Away Our Music


Caption =
Artist = Eric Burdon & War
from Album = The Black Man's Burdon
B-side = Home Cookin'
Released = 1971
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1970
Genre = R&B, funk, soul
Length = 4:53 (single), 6:45 (album)
Label = MGM
Writer = Richard Warner
Producer = Jerry Goldstein
Certification =
Chart position = #50 in US Billboard Hot 100.
Last single = "Paint it Black" (1971)
This single = "They Can't Take Away Our Music" (1971)
Next single = "Magic Mountain" (1976)

They Can't Take Away Our Music is a song performed by Eric Burdon & War in 1970. It was released as a single in 1971. This was their last single before they split in the same year. It charted #50 on the US charts and #35 on the Canadian chart.

It was covered a few times. But the most successful version was done by Donna Summer in 1994.


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