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Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, was an activist group founded in 1979
1979 in music

See also:* :Category:Musical groups established in 1979* :Category:Record labels established in 1979* 1979 in music ...
 by Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne

Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
, Graham Nash
Graham Nash

Graham William Nash is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash ....
, Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
, and John Hall of Orleans
Orleans (band)

Orleans is an American pop-rock band best known for its hits "Dance With Me " , "Still The One " on the album Waking and Dreaming and "Love Takes Time " ....
. The group advocated against the use of nuclear energy
Anti-nuclear

The anti-nuclear movement is a loosely-linked international new social movements opposed to the use of nuclear technology. The chief focus of the movement is opposition to nuclear power , but also includes other issues such as:...
, forming shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident
Three Mile Island accident

The Three Mile Island accident of 1979 was a partial core nuclear meltdown in Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
 in March 1979. MUSE organized a series of five No Nukes concerts held at Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
 in New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in September 1979. On September 23, 1979, almost 200,000 people attended a large rally staged by MUSE on the then-empty north end of the Battery Park City landfill
Landfill

File:Wysypisko.jpgFile:Landfill face.JPGFile:Landfill.jpg A landfill, also known as a dump , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of list of solid waste treatment technologies....
 in New York.

Other musicians performing at the concerts included Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, James Taylor
James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
, Carly Simon
Carly Simon

Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
, Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan is an American singer known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire ", also sang a modernized theme song for the hit children's TV show, Reading Rainbow in the show's later years....
, The Doobie Brothers
The Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
, Jesse Colin Young
Jesse Colin Young

Jesse Colin Young is an United States singer / songwriter / folksinger. His career began in 1960s Greenwich Village and he released two solo albums before forming The Youngbloods....
, Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron is an United States poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson ....
, Tom Petty
Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....
, Poco
Poco

Poco is an United States country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968....
 and others.






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Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, was an activist group founded in 1979
1979 in music

See also:* :Category:Musical groups established in 1979* :Category:Record labels established in 1979* 1979 in music ...
 by Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne

Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
, Graham Nash
Graham Nash

Graham William Nash is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash ....
, Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
, and John Hall of Orleans
Orleans (band)

Orleans is an American pop-rock band best known for its hits "Dance With Me " , "Still The One " on the album Waking and Dreaming and "Love Takes Time " ....
. The group advocated against the use of nuclear energy
Anti-nuclear

The anti-nuclear movement is a loosely-linked international new social movements opposed to the use of nuclear technology. The chief focus of the movement is opposition to nuclear power , but also includes other issues such as:...
, forming shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident
Three Mile Island accident

The Three Mile Island accident of 1979 was a partial core nuclear meltdown in Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
 in March 1979. MUSE organized a series of five No Nukes concerts held at Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
 in New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in September 1979. On September 23, 1979, almost 200,000 people attended a large rally staged by MUSE on the then-empty north end of the Battery Park City landfill
Landfill

File:Wysypisko.jpgFile:Landfill face.JPGFile:Landfill.jpg A landfill, also known as a dump , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of list of solid waste treatment technologies....
 in New York.

Other musicians performing at the concerts included Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, James Taylor
James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
, Carly Simon
Carly Simon

Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
, Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan is an American singer known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire ", also sang a modernized theme song for the hit children's TV show, Reading Rainbow in the show's later years....
, The Doobie Brothers
The Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
, Jesse Colin Young
Jesse Colin Young

Jesse Colin Young is an United States singer / songwriter / folksinger. His career began in 1960s Greenwich Village and he released two solo albums before forming The Youngbloods....
, Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron is an United States poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson ....
, Tom Petty
Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....
, Poco
Poco

Poco is an United States country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968....
 and others. The album No Nukes
No Nukes (album)

No Nukes: The Muse Concerts For a Non-Nuclear Future was a 1979 triple album live album that contained selections from the September 1979 Madison Square Garden concerts by the Musicians United for Safe Energy collective, with Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall being the key organizers of the event and guiding forces...
, and a film, also titled No Nukes
No Nukes (film)

No Nukes is a 1980 in film documentary film and concert film that contained selections from the September 1979 Madison Square Garden concerts by the Musicians United for Safe Energy collective, with Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall being the key organizers of the event and guiding forces behind the film....
, were both released in 1980 to document the performances. A full No Nukes concert featuring Browne and Crosby, Stills & Nash was also filmed near the beach in Ventura, California
Ventura, California

San Buenaventura, commonly referred to as Ventura, is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States, incorporated in 1866. Ventura has a population of 106,744....
, at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, but none of that footage made it into the final cut.

In the 2006 midterm elections
United States general elections, 2006

The 2006 United States midterm elections were held on Tuesday, November 7 2006. All United States House of Representatives seats and one third of the United States Senate seats were contested in this election, as well as 36 state Governor#United States, many State legislature , four territorial legislatures and many state and local races....
, Hall was elected to the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
 from New York's 19th congressional district
New York's 19th congressional district

United States House of Representative, New York District 19 is located in the southern part of the New York in the USA. District 19 is north of New York City and is composed of parts of Dutchess County, New York, Orange County, New York, Rockland County, New York, and Westchester County, New York, in addition to the entirety of Putnam County...
, on a platform that included intensive investment in alternative energy
Alternative energy

Alternative energy is an umbrella term that refers to any source of usable energy intended to replace fuel sources without the undesired consequences of the replaced fuels....
.

In 2007, Raitt, Nash, and Browne, as part of the No Nukes group
No Nukes group

Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and Jackson Browne are part of the No Nukes group which is against the expansion of nuclear power. In 2007 they recorded a music video of a new version of the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth "....
, recorded a music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 of the Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina , and is most famous for the song "For What It's Worth "....
 song "For What It's Worth
For What It's Worth

"For What It's Worth" is a song written by Stephen Stills. It was performed by Buffalo Springfield and released as a single in January 1967; it was later added to the re-release of their first album, Buffalo Springfield . The single peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
".

External links

  • about the group from the New York Daily News
    New York Daily News

    The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703,137, as of March 30, 2008....