“My first introduction to Sam Cooke’s Civil Rights Era classic was hearing it 30 years ago, attached to the iconic Spike Lee film Malcolm X,” Smith says. “Because ‘A Change is Gonna Come ...

To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles picks ten of his favourite pivotal protest songs.

Sam Cooke had an impressive thirty American Top 40 hits between 1957 and 1964, then a further three after his death, including the civil rights anthem 'A Change Is Gonna Come'. His tally in ...