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Political correctness is incorrect!
I first heard this song a few years ago, not at the time it was released - it was not a hit single in the UK and was never played live. On first hearing, I took Alvin Lee's lyrics to be mocking the left, because the song is about those hippies who were saying they wanted to change the world, but were doing nothing to create the change. As TYA were hippies themselves, it is hard to work out whether or not he was being ironic. I spent quite a lot of time trying to find out Alvin Lee's politics and have never arrived at a conclusion. There are a number of assumptions made about him that seem unreliable.
Back in 1974, Ringo Starr, age 34, had a #1 hit with his remake of the song "Your Sixteen"
You come on like a dream, peaches and cream
Lips like strawberry wine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful
And you're mine. (mine, all mine)
As far as I know, he still performs the song on his concert tours