Denny Zager of www.zagerguitar.com Early performance of Zager and Evans. Denny doesn't have this video on his web site but I do! "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" is a #1 hit song from 1969 by the Lincoln, Nebraska duo Zager and Evans which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the six weeks commencing July 12, 1969 and also reached number one in the UK the following month,reaching #1 on 26 August 1969 for 3 weeks. Zager and Evans were a Lincoln, Nebraska rock-pop duo of the late 1960s and early 1970s named after its two members, Denny Zager and Rick Evans, who met at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Artists Dave Trupp and Mark Dalton backed up the duo. The song describes a nightmarish vision of the future as man's technological inventions gradually dehumanize him. The overriding theme is of a world doomed by its passive acquiescence to and overdependence on its own overdone technologies. The song also references examples of technologies that were not fully developed but were known to the public in 1969, such as robots, as well as future technology that would come into existence long after being prophesied in the song, the science of test tube babies and genetic selection by parents of their future children. Such a concept had been explored in a few science fiction novels but had not yet been mentioned in the mainstream media until "In The Year 2525" was released in 1969. It opens with the words "In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find...". Subsequent verses pick up the story at 1010-year intervals from 2525 to 6565. Disturbing predictions are given for each selected year. In the year 3535, for example, all of a person's actions, words and thoughts will be preprogrammed into a daily pill. The final dated chronological verse is, "In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if Man is gonna be alive. He's taken everything this old Earth can give, and he ain't put back nothing, whoa-whoa...," making specific the underlying environmental message of the song. Denny Zager nowadays has his own Guitar Instruction website on : www.zagerguitar.com He and his son Dennis Jr. also designed & set up his own brand of beautiful and easy to play guitars until he somewhat retired in 2008 from doing that but he says that new beginner guitars will now be awailable in music stores as of June '09. Also he has inexpensive guitar lessons for about $8/mos (if a person signs for a year) on his website. Their excellent fingerstyle lessons and I am currently doing those. LYRICS: In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive they may find In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies Everything you think, do and say Is in the pill you took today In the year 4545 Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you In the year 5555 Your arms hanging limp at your sides Your legs got nothing to do Some machine's doing that for you In the year 6565 Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa-oh In the year 7510 If God's a-comin' He oughta make it by then Maybe He'll look around Himself and say Guess it's time for the judgment day In the year 8510 God is gonna shake His mighty head He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been Or tear it down and start again, whoa-oh In the year 9595 I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything this old Earth can give And he ain't put back nothin', whoa-oh Now it's been ten thousand years Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now man's reign is through But through eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only yesterday In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find In the year 3535 {fade} LYRICS

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