{"id":3619122,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3619122/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-18T13:43:51-08:00","show":65967,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65967/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Zombie","track_id":"b9edfc20-247c-498c-95df-0bfa504f3484","recording_id":"cf8ec9dd-2a0d-4042-94e2-1b5fb11d62d1","artist":"Fela Kuti","artist_ids":["6514cffa-fbe0-4965-ad88-e998ead8a82a"],"album":"The Complete Works of Fela Anikulapo Kuti","release_id":"d54d0d24-c3ba-435f-9ae9-60d2574c3027","release_group_id":"fb6a6f9e-6dcf-42fe-a603-6e463cf65b67","labels":["Wrasse Records"],"label_ids":["3a33c6f4-b06e-4d23-8ebf-ba3d2c9edab3"],"release_date":"2010-11-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"\"Zombie\" gave the youth of Africa \"a handy concept that dramatized the intellectual shallowness of the military dictatorships rampaging the continent.\"\n\nIt is clear to anyone who knows anything about the man and his music what inspired this song. On February 18, 1977, Fela's residence was sacked by nearly a thousand Nigerian soldiers. \"Residents - including Fela - and guests were brutally beaten and bayoneted and scores ended up with broken heads, legs, backs, shoulders, arms, and ribs; women were sexually assaulted; Fela's ailing mother... was tossed from a second-floor window; and the house itself was razed.\"\n\nWhen Fela performed this song the following year in Accra, the capital of neighboring Ghana, riots broke out, and he was deported and banned from the country.: https://www.treblezine.com/treble-100-no-51-fela-kuti-zombie/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}