Înteleg de la radio că azi ar fi fost ziua lui. Chiar dacă generatia mea a crescut mai degrabă cu ”slagărul” francez sau italian, chiar dacă muzica anglo-saxonă a pătruns greu în România înainte de 1989 (iar după 1989 eram deja trecuti de prima tinerete) n-ai cum să nu recunosti un mare artist atunci când îl asculti.

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  1. Intradevar, o voce de exceptie a unei trupe care a lansat nenumarate piese ramase in memoria „colectiva” ca hituri (nu-mi place sa folosesc cuvantul asta).

    Imi place ca foarte multe piese (nu numai ale Queen, ci si ale altor trupe din aceeasi generatie) transmit un mesaj puternic celor care au capacitatea de a-l intelege.

  2. „These days are all gone now but some things remain
    When I look and I find no change”

    …una dintre preferatele mele, din categoria mai lente. Dintre cele mai energice, ma bine-dispune intotdeauna „Don’t Stop Me Now”. Il consider artistul cu cea mai complexa voce si interpretare scenica, printre singurii care a incercat un mix opera-rock. Contemporanii carora le mai acord atentie sunt Robbie Williams – face un show fabulos cu mult fler si carisma si celor de la Coldplay – o trupa britanica care m-au fermacat cu versurile lor.

    O duminica placuta!

  3. MOGULULE MUZICAL
    FACI O AFIRMATIE BIZARA . GENERATIA NOASTRA A INTRODUS IN Rock and roll IN ROMANIA. FACI O NEDREPTATE ISTORICA CEAURILOR BUCURESTIENE. ACEASTA MUZICA A FOST PORT DRAPELUL UNEI ADEVATATE GENERATII. Rock and roll SI PURTATUL BLUE JEANS AU INSEMNAT SFARSITUL COMUNISMULUI
    In July 1954, Elvis Presley recorded the regional hit „That’s All Right (Mama)” at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio in Memphis.[60] Two months earlier in May 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded „Rock Around the Clock”. Although only a minor hit when first released, when used in the opening sequence of the movie Blackboard Jungle, a year later, it really set the rock and roll boom in motion. The song became one of the biggest hits in history, and frenzied teens flocked to see Haley and the Comets perform it, causing riots in some cities. „Rock Around the Clock” was a breakthrough for both the group and for all of rock and roll music. If everything that came before laid the groundwork, „Clock” introduced the music to a global audience.
    ESTE MOMENTUL SA CERI SCUZE. GENERATIA NOASTRA ASCULTA MUZICA AMERICANA LA EUROPA LIBERA IN TIMP PARINTII ASCULTAU STIRI.
    INCHEI CU O MENTIUNE PENTRU UN EROU CARE A MURIT PENTRU NOI LIBERTATE SI ROCK
    The first anti-communist DJ: Cornel Chiriac.
    No other figure was more influential for my generation than the legendary music presenter Cornel Chiriac. A perpetual rebel, Chiriac and his radio music show „Metronom” had been hugely popular in Romania even before his defection in 1969. But once Chiriac joined Radio Free Europe, „Metronom” achieved cult status.

    I remember that the streets in many Romanian cities were deserted on Sunday afternoons – that’s when „Metronom” was aired. A whole generation of young Romanians looked forward to staying home, glued to their shortwave sets, to hear this:

    „Cornel Chiriac salutes you and invites you to enjoy the album of a band that is about to disappear…”

    Like the unknown band he was presenting, Chiriac, too, would soon disappear. He was stabbed to death in March 1975 in a parking lot in Munich, leading to whispers that the dreaded communist secret police, the Securitate, was behind his death.

    The regime feared him. His shows were never about music alone. They were about liberty, oppression, politics, dictatorship – and music. Perhaps he had become too popular and influential among Romanian youths.

    In the days after Chiriac’s death, my friends and I discreetly wore black bands on the lapels of our school uniforms. When asked whether someone close had died, we would all reply, „Yes, a very good friend.” Many Romanian youths made the same gesture. While other RFE journalists had been targeted or even killed by the Securitate, it was Chiriac’s death that hit closest to home – for he was one of us.
    No other figure was more influential for my generation than the legendary music presenter Cornel Chiriac. A perpetual rebel, Chiriac and his radio music show „Metronom” had been hugely popular in Romania even before his defection in 1969. But once Chiriac joined Radio Free Europe, „Metronom” achieved cult status.

    I remember that the streets in many Romanian cities were deserted on Sunday afternoons – that’s when „Metronom” was aired. A whole generation of young Romanians looked forward to staying home, glued to their shortwave sets, to hear this:

    „Cornel Chiriac salutes you and invites you to enjoy the album of a band that is about to disappear…”

    Like the unknown band he was presenting, Chiriac, too, would soon disappear. He was stabbed to death in March 1975 in a parking lot in Munich, leading to whispers that the dreaded communist secret police, the Securitate, was behind his death.

    The regime feared him. His shows were never about music alone. They were about liberty, oppression, politics, dictatorship – and music. Perhaps he had become too popular and influential among Romanian youths.

    In the days after Chiriac’s death, my friends and I discreetly wore black bands on the lapels of our school uniforms. When asked whether someone close had died, we would all reply, „Yes, a very good friend.” Many Romanian youths made the same gesture. While other RFE journalists had been targeted or even killed by the Securitate, it was Chiriac’s death that hit closest to home – for he was one of us.
    Chiriac provided a flash of light and levity in the drab spirituals dungeons of communist Romania. Rather than stick to the scripts provided by Ceausescu’s regime, Chiriac played the latest rock n’ roll music straight from America or the UK. He gave young people an opportunity to dream outside the context of the commutopia.

    FINAL : MOGULULE AI DAT-O IN BALTA DAR TE IERTAM PENTRU CA ESTI AL NOSTRU , O ULTIMA SPERANTA,


  4. Va multumesc si pentru acest moment de aducere aminte de la …Lume Adunate.
    Eu V-as propune o auditie a Bohemian Rapsody integral.
    Va doresc O Saptamana Frumoasa !

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