Complex sentence: "Why?" is a plea for racial tolerance and was written by guitarist Lynval Golding in response to a violent racist attack he had suffered in July 1980 outside the Moonlight Club in West Hampstead in London which had left him hospitalised with broken ribs.
Split into simpler sentences: Why? was written by guitarist Lynval Golding and is a plea for racial tolerance. It was written in response to a violent racist attack on Golding the previous summer outside the Moonlight Club in West Hampstead in London which had left him hospitalised with broken ribs.