They Say It's Your Birthday | 40 years later, "The White Album" still resonates
McElroy’s twin brother and bandmate, Brian McElroy, mentioned the sentiment the first track on the album engendered among those with no sense of irony. “After ‘Back in the U.S.S.R,’ everybody suddenly thought they were commies,” Bruce McElroy said. “But in fact, that was a song that Mike Love from the Beach Boys helped them with. What’s more American and apple pie than that?”
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