Re: Η ιστορία πίσω από το τραγούδι
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Bob Dylan- Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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Η ζωή της.“Sweet Black Angel” (sometimes known as “Black Angel”) is a song by the Rolling Stones, included on their 1972 album Exile on Main St. It was also released on a single as the B-side to "Tumbling Dice" prior to the album.
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “Sweet Black Angel” is one of the few outright political songs written by the Rolling Stones. A country-blues ballad, it is about civil rights activist Angela Davis, who was facing murder charges at the time.[1] Steve Kurutz writes in his review:
Having never heard of Angela Davis, a listener could easily overlook the political lyrics and get lost in the circular acoustic plucking or the washboard rhythm that propels the song so well. Yet, by knowing the case history one realizes how deft and clever Mick's lyrics could be, even if he hides behind his best backwoods diction and garbled annunciation [sic] obscure[s] the point.
Davis is not mentioned by name in the lyrics:
Well de gal in danger, de gal in chains, but she keep on pushin', would you do the same?
She countin' up de minutes, she countin' up de days.
She's a sweet black angel, not a gun toting teacher, not a Red lovin' school marm;
Ain't someone gonna free her, free de sweet black slave, free de sweet black slave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Black_Angel
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The Life of Angela Davis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
Angela was written in support of Angela Davis, a Black Panther supporter who was tried and eventually acquitted for suspected involvement in the murder of Judge Harold Haley in California.
https://www.beatlesbible.com/people/joh ... gs/angela/
Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού προέρχονται από το ποίημα Bitter Fruit του Άμπελ Μέροπολ, ενός καθηγητή γυμνασίου του Μπρονξ. Ο Μέροπολ ήταν εβραίος από τη Ρωσία και μέλος του Κομμουνιστικού κόμματος στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Από φόβο για αντίποινα χρησιμοποίησε το ψευδώνυμο Λιούις Άλλαν (Lewis Allan).
Το ποίημα εκφράζει την φρίκη του Μέροπολ βλέποντας τη φωτογραφία του Λώρενς Μπέιτλερ (Lawrence Beitler) με τον Τόμας Σιπ (Thomas Shipp) και τον Άμπραμ Σμιθ (Abram Smith), δυο μαύρους που είχαν λιντσαριστεί και κατόπιν κρεμαστεί σε δέντρο στο Μάριον της Ιντιάνα. Κυκλοφόρησε τους στίχους το 1936 στο περιοδικό The New York Teacher, και το μελοποίησε μόνος του, αφού κανένας μουσικός δεν ήταν διατεθειμένος να τον βοηθήσει. Το τραγούδι αρχικά σημείωσε μικρή επιτυχία, και ο Μέροπολ μαζί με την γυναίκα του και μια μαύρη τραγουδίστρια, τη Λώρα Ντάνκαν, το ερμήνευσαν στο Madison Square Garden.
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit
Joplin once said of her lifestyle, "I live pretty loose. You know, balling with strangers and stuff." Although she was very open about who she loved physically, she often suffered emotionally if she felt that one of her lovers was letting her down.
Joplin ran into musician Leonard Cohen in the Chelsea Hotel elevator in 1968, culminating in the two spending the night together. The affair was short-lived, however, and for Joplin, it apparently ended in heartbreak:
"Really heavy, like slam-in-the-face it happened. Twice. Jim Morrison and Leonard Cohen. And it's strange 'cause they were the only two that I can think of, like prominent people, that I tried to...without really liking them up front, just because I knew who they were and wanted to know them. And then they both gave me nothing."
Cohen wrote about the encounter in his classic song "Chelsea Hotel No. 2," but didn't admit it was about Joplin until many years after she had died. "She wasn't looking for me, she was looking for Kris Kristofferson," he recalled.
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