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Cuando los ángeles lloran

Cuando los ángeles lloran
QUANDO GLI ANGELI PIANGONO
(Continues)
Contributed by Maria Pia 2010/2/20 - 19:37
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Smisurata preghiera

Smisurata preghiera
Makroll su Gabbieri a Kabul in s'Afganistan.

Arrogu liau de s'arrumanzu de Àlvaro Mutis
"Unu bellu Mòrriri" de su 1989 e
torrau a prentai po is: Editzionis Einaudi,
Cannaca po is busciacas, 1992 e 1997, Turinu.

Po ndi sciri de prus apitzus de Àlvaro Mutis cracai innoi e brintai in sa poisia de cust’òmini mannu.
Makroll, su Gabbieri, arremonat a sa pàgini 131 de su lìbburu.
(Continues)
2010/2/20 - 18:33
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La Cantagranda

La Cantagranda
Chanson italienne – La Cantagranda – Ivan Della Mea – 2000

L'insertion de « Grandchant » dans les CCG est due essentiellement à deux strophes au caractère clairement antimilitariste (et, dans une moindre mesure, aussi à la présence dans cette très longue chanson – dix neuf minutes et trois secondes – d'une allusion à la mort de Giuseppe Pinelli (Ces strophes sont en gras). Pour le reste, à propos de ces très vaste chanson (dont le texte est ins&éré pour la première fois sur le net) je reprends un article publié le 22 juillet 2005.

Ivan Della Mea est des mêmes années que Guccini et que De André. Lui aussi de 1940, année de guerre; il est né un seize octobre, curieusement le même jour que ma mère (qui il y a quelques jours, l'a écouté pour la première fois de sa vie...) On me dit qu'il n'est pas très bien et qu'il n'a pas seulement mal à sa tocante; il serait cependant trop facile d'accrocher... (Continues)
GRANDCHANT
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/20 - 16:40
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My Country

My Country
[1985]
Album "No Rest for the Wicked"
Tell all the people who believe what they read in the press
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:56
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51st State

51st State
[1986]
Album "The Ghost of Cain"
Look out of your windows, watch the skies
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:43
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Better Than Them

Better Than Them
[1985]
Album "No Rest for the Wicked"
This is our town, this is Friday night
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:37
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The Power Is Yours

The Power Is Yours
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Let's get this situation sorted out!
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:20
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Take No Heroes

Take No Heroes
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Somebody told me today
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:14
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Kick Over The Statues

Kick Over The Statues
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
At the end of an era
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:05
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It Can Be Done

It Can Be Done
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Russia sparked the fires in 1917
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:00
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D.I.Y.

D.I.Y.
[2005]
Album "Restless Soul"
Warmongers, kill yourselves
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 10:20
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Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense
Riguardo al testo, la voce di HAL non è presente sulla registrazione finale, poiché Stanley Kubrick non diede a Waters il permesso di usarla.

Se pensate bene, tempo prima (nel 1970 circa, i Pink Floyd ancora "interi"), Waters e compagni non permisero a Stanley Kubrick di usare le musiche di Atom Heart Mother per Arancia Meccanica... Che Kubrick si sia arrabbiato con Waters? Ma dopo tutto, era una musica troppo solenne per un film così violento...
Luca 2010/2/19 - 14:29
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Green Grow The Rushes

Green Grow The Rushes
[1985]
Album "Fables of the Reconstruction"

Una canzone che con Flowers of Guatemala e Welcome To The Occupation costituisce una sorta di trilogia sulla politica statunitense verso i paesi del centro e sud America negli anni 80, in particolare rispetto alla questione dell'immigrazione, solo apparentemente contrastata con la forza (e con grande spargimento di sangue) ma tollerata, quando non incentivata, a seconda delle esigenze del mercato, che sempre predilige la manodopera a basso costo ("some surplus, cheaper hands") - in maggioranza clandestini ("Pay for your freedom, find another gate") sfruttati, ricattati, minacciati - per massimizzare i propri profitti ("The amber waves of gain")...

Il titolo si riferisce probabilmente alla canzone popolare religiosa di origine ebraica "Green Grow The Rushes, Ho", un brano molto noto nel mondo anglofono. Alcune fonti ritengono che gli immigrati... (Continues)
The wheelbarrow's fallen
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 13:07
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I Want to Be President

I Want to Be President
[2004]
We got arms
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 11:58
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Free World

Free World
[1989]
Album "Kite"

Una canzone dedicata alla vita della gente comune in Inghilterra negli anni del thatcherismo...
I thought of you when they closed down the school
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 11:26
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San Quentin

San Quentin
"Nonno" Cash ci manca ogni giorno... inarrivabile. Questa è pura poesia.
Alberto 2010/2/18 - 18:58
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Sólo le pido a Dios

Sólo le pido a Dios
La nuova guerra delle Falkland
La posta in gioco è il petrolio

Una società britannica inizia le ricerche di altri giacimenti e il governo argentino limita la navigazione verso le isole

di Omero Ciai, da La Repubblica

Sott'acqua, intorno all'arcipelago delle Falkland/Malvinas, ci sarebbero, secondo uno studio della Geological Society of London, 60 miliardi di barili di greggio. Un tesoro difficile da sottrarre all'Oceano ma che, visti i costi crescenti del petrolio, diventa ogni giorno più appetitoso. Tant'è vero che una impresa britannica, Desire Petroleum, ha annunciato l'avvio delle ricerche nell'area a nord delle isole dove spera di estrarre nei prossimi anni fino a 3 miliardi di barili di oro nero. L'interesse di Desire e di altre aziende del Regno Unito a caccia di idrocarburi per far girare il mondo nei prossimi decenni ha riaperto in Argentina la ferita della contesa sulla Falkland/Malvinas... (Continues)
Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 14:46
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Old England

Old England
[1985]
Album "This Is the Sea"

"Old England" is a criticism of Thatcherism, blaming Margaret Thatcher's economic policies for what The Waterboys perceived to be an increase in desperation amongst the young and poor in the England of that time, and a rise in drug addiction, specifically to heroin. The refrain, Old England is dying is a quote from James Joyce, and the lines You're asking what makes me sigh now / What it is makes me shudder so are from W.B. Yeats' poem, Mad as the Mist and Snow.
(en.wikipedia)
Man looks up on a yellow sky
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 14:22
Song Itineraries: Miss Maggie Thatcher
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Pax Americana

Pax Americana
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Bloody confrontations from
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:44
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Freedom is Humanity

[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Tolerance is key to dismantling oppression
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:43
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Forgotten Genocide

Forgotten Genocide
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
A trail of blood from sea to sea
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:41
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Murder is Murder

Murder is Murder
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Murder is murder
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:39
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Money, Power and Lies

Money, Power and Lies
They break into our houses
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:35
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Rich man's War, Poor Man's Struggle

[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Sign off your life, pack up your bags
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:29
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The Unknown War Criminal

[2005]
Testo trovato su archive.org
He likes the tales and legends,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:18
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Some Misgivings

[2005]
Testo trovato su archive.org

"About life after the bomb drops."
My name is Harry, Dick or Tom.
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:12
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The Spun Us Another War, Ma

[2003]
Scritta un mese dopo l'invasione americana dell'Iraq nel marzo 2003.
They spun us another war, ma
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 12:52
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Standing On the Moon

Standing On the Moon
[1989]
Album "Built to Last"
Words by Robert Hunter
Music by Jerry Garcia
Standing on the moon
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 12:37
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U.S. Blues

U.S. Blues
[1974]
Album "Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel"
Words by Robert Hunter
Music by Jerry Garcia
Red and white
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 11:20
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Throwing Stones

Throwing Stones
[1982]
Album "In the Dark" (1987)
Words by John Perry Barlow
Music by Bob Weir

Il brano è incluso pure nella compilation "Greenpeace: Rainbow Warriors" uscita nel 1989 per commemorare l'attentato subito da Greenpeace nel 1985, quando i servizi segreti francesi affondarono la nave ammiraglia del movimento, la "Rainbow Warrior", mentre si trovava alla fonda nel porto neozelandese di Auckland. Nell'attentato morì il fotografo Fernando Pereira, attivista di Greenpeace.
Picture a bright blue ball, just spinning, spinnin free,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 11:02
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Caporetto '17

Caporetto '17
Chanson italienne – Caporetto '17 – Ivan Della Mea – 1973

Juste deux petites remarques : la première concerne le mot : « Hostie » (in italiano : ostia) qui dans un usage ancien – dans les deux langues – signifie : victime sacrificielle – j'ai préféré garder le mot tel quel (et non victime); la seconde, c'est de renvoyer pour le commentaire à Judith à Caporetto.

Ce Badoglio quand même..., dit Lucien l'âne en raclant le sol de colère rentrée. C'est un peu le Pétain italien... La vieille baderne qui avait conquis sa « gloire » sur la peau des autres, qui ordonna mille massacres, s'en courut dès qu'il le put, servit sous le régime et qu'on rappela en sauveur de la nation.... Le Saint Pierre de la chanson a bien raison... et Tonio encore plus, mieux vaut encore s'en aller au diable.... que fréquenter ces gens-là.

Ainsi Parlaient Marco Valdo M.I. et Lucien Lane
CAPORETTO 1917
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/17 - 21:46
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Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)

Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)
[2004]
Lyrics & Music by Saul Williams and Zack de la Rocha
Album: Saul Williams

Once the audience has been introduced to the central character, Saul Williams, the artist, and this central character has dealt with the current state of hip hop, he makes an open call to the youth of America, transcending hip hop and speaking to larger social issues:
"This is a call out to all the youth in the ghettos, suburbs, villages, townships: to all the kids who download this song for free. By any means. To all the kids short on loot but high on dreams. To all the kids watching TV like, yo, I wish that was me...I hear you. To all the people within the sound of my voice...".
Here, Williams again targets a large audience that transcends the hip hop community. He speaks to the youth of the world. He discusses the "state of affairs, likening the situation to Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar:
"Brutus... (Continues)
This is a call out to all the youth..
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/17 - 21:13
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Streets of Sorrow

Streets of Sorrow
[1988]
Lyrics & Music by Terry Woods and Shane MacGowan
Album: If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Vedi anche un articolo di Silvia Morosi

Divided into two parts, the first ("Streets of Sorrow") written and sung by Woods, describing the pain and sadness on the streets of Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles , the song is told from the point of view of someone who is leaving the place due to the increasing violence and conflict and who vows never to return "to see more sorrow, nor to see more young men slain".

The second part of the song ("Birmingham Six") written and sung by MacGowan, is a demonstration of support to the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four and the view that they were the victims of a miscarriage of justice and that their confessions had been extracted by torture at the hands of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, claiming "there were six men in Birmingham,... (Continues)
Oh farewell you streets of sorrow
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/17 - 17:30
Song Itineraries: Conflicts in Ireland

L'homme en pain d'épice

L'homme en pain d'épice
L'homme en pain d'épice

L'homme en pain d'épice– Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Cycle du Cahier ligné – 89

L'homme en pain d'épice est la huitante-neuvième chanson du Cycle du Cahier ligné, constitué d'éléments tirés du Quaderno a Cancelli de Carlo Levi.

Comme tu le verras ou l'entendras, Lucien mon ami l'âne, la rêverie du prisonnier solitaire est comme un voyage autour de sa chambre, ce qui somme toute pourrait être le titre du Cycle du Cahier ligné, s'il n'existait déjà sous ce titre de Voyage autour de ma chambre, une sorte de longue nouvelle ou de roman d'un prisonnier. C'était au temps où l'Italie allait seulement devenir elle-même... Il était sous-titré, dans certaines éditions, ce qui pour nous a de l'importance : Expédition nocturne autour de ma chambre. Et la canzone d'aujourd'hui a comme titre « L'homme en pain d'épice » et commence par la description d'une simple chambre, une pièce... (Continues)
Je contemple cette pièce dépouillée,
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/17 - 16:40
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Days Of Decision

Days Of Decision
17 febbraio 2010
GIORNI DI DECIDERE
(Continues)
2010/2/17 - 16:18
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Ballate della violenza [Ballata della piccola e della grande violenza]

Ballate della violenza [Ballata della piccola e della grande violenza]
Version française – LA GRANDE ET LA PETITE VIOLENCE – Marco Valdo M.I.– 2010
Chanson italienne – La grande e la piccola violenza – Ivan Della Mea – 1962

« […] Entre 1957 et 1960, viennent au jour les ballades de LA GRANDE ET LA PETITE VIOLENCE. C'est ce moment où Ivan Della Mea …, puise impétueusement dans les souvenirs et les images taillées dans l'irruption féroce de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, fouettées par la furie guerrière et par les blessures post-bellum, donne une marque précise à son engagement politique et artistique.
Au travers des aventures familiales (« la petite violence ») – où le père, brigadier fasciste, revit ses moments d'exaltation et ceux de déconfiture... jusqu'à sa mort – il réussit à construire une fresque magistrale qui recueille globalement le climat, à la fois tragique et effervescent, de la période dictatoriale et de celle post-résitancielle de la restauration.... (Continues)
LA GRANDE ET LA PETITE VIOLENCE
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/17 - 15:02
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World Peace

World Peace
[1989]
Album "Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop"
World peace.. or world TALK?!
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/17 - 14:07
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Who Protects Us From You?

Who Protects Us From You?
[1989]
Album "Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop"
(Fy-ah! Come down fas'...)
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/17 - 14:03
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Stop the Violence

Stop the Violence
[1988]
Album "By All Means Necessary"
Worldwide BDP are the freshest!
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/17 - 13:56
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Mentioned In Dispatches

Mentioned In Dispatches
[1985]
Album "The Painted Word"
He got no ribbons, no decorations
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/17 - 13:34
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King and Country

King and Country
[1980]
Do you always clean your medals on a wet weekend?
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/17 - 13:28
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Back To Vietnam

Back To Vietnam
[1985]
Album "The Painted Word"
He wakes up screaming
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/17 - 13:24
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How I Learned To Love The Bomb

How I Learned To Love The Bomb
[1994]
Album "How I Learned To Love The Bomb"
Well there's no more sleepless nights for me
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/17 - 12:57

Acéphale

Acéphale
Si aggiunga che Marco Rovelli ha eseguito (non sappiamo se la prima volta in assoluto, ma sicuramente una delle prime) questa canzone al CPA Firenze Sud il 13 febbraio scorso, in occasione della presentazione del suo libro "Servi" e di un concerto che ha tenuto assieme a Davide Giromini, Lara Vecoli e i Kobayashi. Permangono ancora alcune incertezze sul "parez-vous" della canzone, che Marco Rovelli intende come "preparatevi" (in francese standard vuol dire invece: "ornatevi, adornatevi", cfr. il nome della parure).
CCG/AWS Staff 2010/2/17 - 01:40
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Le gorille

Le gorille
Die deutsche Fassung von Franz Josef Degenhardt

Come segnalato da Christoph Gerhard, fa parte dell'album Junge Paare auf Bänken (= "Les amoureux des bancs publics"), interamente composto di traduzioni da Brassens effettuate da Degenhardt. Una versione con qualche excursus nell'attualità tedesca ("als die Pershing zwo bei Heilbronn explodierte", ancora più decisamente contro la guerra...[CCG/AWS Staff]
VORSICHT GORILLA
(Continues)
Contributed by CCG/AWS Staff 2010/2/17 - 01:26
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You Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red

You Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red
[1986?]
Nell'LP "Swords into Plowshares", Folk Tradition.
Interpretata anche da Faith Petric e Mark Ross nel disco collettivo "Rebel Voices: Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World"
When I was just a little thing I used to love parades
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/16 - 14:59
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Clinton Got A Blowjob

Clinton Got A Blowjob
Vabbè, una canzone divertente in cui si vorrebbe far passare Clinton, confrontandolo col perfido George W. Bush, come un presidente tanto "pacifista" da essersi interessato solo ai bocchini della Lewinsky... Trascura Schwartz di ricordare le nefandezze compiute da Clinton in Somalia, l'assordante silenzio sul genocidio in Rwanda, gli ingiustificati bombardamenti su insediamenti civili in Sudan, la guerra contro la Yugoslavia (con i bombardamenti su convogli di profughi, la distruzione del palazzo delle TV serba e dell'ambasciata cinese), i continui raid aerei e l'embargo feroce che causarono decine di migliaia di morti in Iraq tra la prima e la seconda guerra del Golfo, l'intensificazione del blocco contro il regime cubano...

Tuttavia, vi è di certo che Clinton subì un procedimento di impeachment a causa di un pompino, mentre quei gran figli di puttana di Bush e Blair, con tutte le loro... (Continues)
George Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/16 - 14:25
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Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis

Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis
[2004]
Keep your Jesus off my penis
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/16 - 13:45
Song Itineraries: Antiwar Anticlerical
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Unplayed Piano

Unplayed Piano
[2005]
Scritta da Damien Rice e Lisa Hannigan a sostegno della campagna per la liberazione della dissidente birmana Aung San Suu Kyi, sequestrata in casa sua dalla dittatura militare praticamente dal 1990...
Come and see me
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/16 - 13:05
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(Something Inside) So Strong

(Something Inside) So Strong
[1987]

Una canzone contro l'apartheid che Labi Siffre scrisse dopo essere rimasto sconvolto da un documentario in cui veniva mostrato un soldato del regime sudafricano che sparava a freddo su un bambino di colore...
Canzone scritta nel 1984 e poi inclusa nell'album intitolato "So Strong" del 1987.

La canzone fu ripresa con grande successo da Kenny Rogers nel 1989.
(Bernart Bartleby)
The higher you build your barriers
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/16 - 12:45
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Sullivan

Sullivan
[1993]
Lyrics & Music by James "Jimmy" P. Newquist
Album: Ignore The Ants [1995]

The song tells the true story of five siblings, the Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, who died aboard the USS "Juneau" in WW2.
Lyrically, it focuses on Mrs. Sullivan's communication both with her sons and the military. Caroline's Spine singer and main songwriter Jimmy Newquist wrote the song after reading the war documentary Hollywood Goes to War. Regarding his inspiration, he remarked:
"Coming from a big family, the story of five brothers really struck home with me. . . I saw a news clipping with a photo of Mrs. Sullivan holding a banner with five gold stars - one for each of her dead sons. It's a really sad story with incredible loyalty and courage."
Newquist later noted, "The song was an act of love. . . I sleep well at night knowing that I brought attention to something that shouldn't be forgotten."... (Continues)
It's not hard to reach back to the day underneath that Iowa sun
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/16 - 12:13




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