# Sympathy for the Devil and some enigmatic lyrics

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**Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sympathy-for-the-devil-and-some-enigmatic-lyrics/1015915/5 "2025-03-21T16:07:16Z")

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> [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/3230):
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> Prior to the Iranian Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan it was en vogue for British hippies to travel overland by bus from Paris to the Far East, sampling the exotic delights along the way, a la Rush’s “A Passage to Bangkok”. I assume Mick’s troubadors were of that stock.

Yeah in my younger days of traveling solo to various hippy filled parts of the world there was a generational thing where the older generation were identified by have stories of traveling in Afghanistan and Iran.

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