This is what my dad told me when I was a teenager. He was frustated at my complete immersion in music and felt that I should be educating myself more through art and literature. He was wrong. I'm pretty sure we've all learnt a LOT by listening to music. From the remarkable to the trivial, here's some of the things that music taught me.
Enola Gay
Enola Gay by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
As a nine year old in 1980, it was just a song. Maybe the name of a woman, but nothing more. But then I dug a bit deeper and so learnt about the plane, a B-29 Fortress Bomber, that dropped the first atomic bomb during world war 2. Named after the pilot’s mother, Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb (codenamed “little boy”) on Hiroshima at 8:15am on 6 August 1945. All of a sudden the line “the kiss you give is never ever gonna fade away” revealed it’s true meaning.
No comments:
Post a Comment