A Change Is Gonna Come has come to America." A duet of the song by Bettye LaVette and Jon Bon Jovi was included in . In Washington DC, in the days leading up to the Inauguration of Barack Obama, this song could be heard played constantly in the city centre. In 2004, Patti LaBelle performed the song on the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert to a standing ovation. Julian Casablancas, lead singer of popular rock band The Strokes, has cited "A Change Is Gonna Come" as his favorite song of all time. In 2009, Aaron Neville, along with the Mt. Zion Mass Choir, released a
Julian Temple Band Julian Temple Band Julian Temple Band is an alternative rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand, fronted by Californian/New Zealand singer-songwriter Julian Temple. They formed in February, 2004 as a surf-rock inspired project after post-graduate work at the University of Otago. The band has independently recorded and released six albums; "In Sea" (2006), "Quiet Earth" (2009), "Balance Escapes" (2010), "Upsidedownbackwards" (2012), "Ceiling in the Sky" (2015), and "Antarctica" (2018). Within a week of its release, "Upsidedownbackwards" debuted on the New Zealand Artists Albums Chart and quickly climbed to number 7 over five weeks. With their fifth album "Ceiling in the Sky",