Time For Truth

Album: In The City (1977)
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Songfacts®:

  • Running to around 3 minutes 10 seconds, this is a typical Jam anti-authoritarian rant taking a swipe at the police in particular. Although it does not mention it overtly, the song contains a clear reference to the murder of Liddle Towers in the last verse:

    Bring forward those six pigs
    We wanna see them swing so high


    This shameful incident was also covered by Tom Robinson with the thoughtful "Blue Murder" and by Angelic Upstarts with the more direct "The Murder Of Liddle Towers."

    The earlier reference to "Uncle Jimmy" alludes to James Callaghan, who served as Prime Minister from April 1976 to May 1979. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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