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| Dream Academy – Mordechai Vanunu Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Mordechai Vanunu is an Israeli nuclear technician who in 1986 exposed Israel's extensive nuclear weapons program to the press in England. Just prior to publication of his photographs and testimony, Israeli undercover agents kidnapped him and took him back to Israel. In a secret trial in 1988, the Israeli government convicted Vanunu of treason and espionage and sentenced him to 18 years in prison. He has served 15 years--the majority of it in solitary confinement. The song lyrics do a very good job of communicating Vanunu's story. |
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| Dream Academy – In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas) Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Most likely, this song is dedicated to Rodrigo Rojas Denegri who died on 2 July 1986. He and Carmen Gloria Quintana were participating in a protest demonstration in Chile when ex-Army officer, Pedro Fernánez Dittus poured petrol on them and set them on fire. Rodrigo Rojas Denegri died of his injuries and Carmen Gloria Quintana was badly scarred. On 6 December 1995 the Supreme Court confirmed a 600-day prison sentence for Pedro Fernánez Dittus for the death and injuries he caused that day. |
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| Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Actually, in his box set, on the fourth disc, he discusses this song and says that We Didn't Start The Fire is NOT so much about history as a whole, but about HIS life and the things that had happened since his birth. He says that he tried to pick things that were important to HIM, but that the beginning of the song was simply created when he asked himself who the President was at the time of his birth... Harry Truman... and who a famous acress was... Doris Day. |
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