I remember in the sixties seeing the songwriter ,Jackson C Frank stop in the middle of one of his songs to ask the twenty or so people attending his gig at a London folk club (Bunjies I think) what the hell they had done to end the Biafran war , which was raging at the time . It was like an inquisition from the stage , his eyes glared around at the audience . After a long silence somebody spoke up to say that he had written a poem about the war. "A poem, hmm I guess that's something" Jackson said contemptuously before getting back into his set. Everybody in that audience would probably have been just as opposed to war as the singer was - perhaps as an American Jackson C Frank wouldn't have been aware of that . The whole incident was really more embarrassing than anything.