Episodio 95: Alcatrazz Hiroshima mon Amour Year 1983. English Version.

00:00:00 - Rock and Roll is a style that remains in time. Stories and bands that made it possible in rock classics of all time.

00:00:30 - Hello to all lovers of rock, hard rock and heavy metal.

00:00:40 - Today we have this great song by the group Alcatraz, Hiroshima Manimura or Hiroshima My

00:00:45 - Love, recorded in 1983.

00:00:52 - The group consisted of Gran Bonnet, vocals, Inve Momstein, guitar, Jimmy Waldo, keyboards, backing vocals, Gary Shea, bass, backing vocals, Jan Uvina, drums, backing vocals.

00:01:11 - It was the first great band of the young and exalted guitarist Inve Momstein, who recorded this album when he was only 20 years old.

00:01:25 - As a teenager he was heavily influenced by classical music, particularly 19th century

00:01:31 - Italian virtuoso violinist and composer Niccolò Pagagnini as well as Johann Sebastian Bach.

00:01:38 - Also the singer Graham Bonnet came from participating in Richie Blackmore's group, Rainbow.

00:01:47 - Graham Bonnet wrote the lyrics to this song, which are about the nuclear bombs that America dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

00:01:56 - On August 6th and 9th, 1945, effectively ending World War II.

00:02:05 - It was inspired by the 1959 French film Hiroshima Manamur, translation,

00:02:12 - Hiroshima My Love, which he had seen in school.

00:02:15 - The film recounts the Hiroshima bombing and tells of the human suffering in the aftermath.

00:02:24 - The singer said,

00:02:25 - We played in Japan a lot, and I thought this would be a nice little tribute to what happened.

00:02:31 - I was always horrified by what happened.

00:02:34 - In Hiroshima, my love, it was like, god damn, you know, I didn't want that to happen again.

00:02:41 - So I read up a little bit about it, and that's how that came about.

00:02:45 - It was something I thought should never have happened.

00:02:48 - It was just a horrible thing.

00:02:51 - I couldn't believe that the Americans would do this, or anybody would do that to anybody.

00:02:57 - It was sort of a protest song in a way.

00:03:31 - If we're new, money can't be told But they call it a little war

00:04:00 - And she's seven, it's five, oh, six and three

00:04:05 - They got this energy

00:04:09 - I'll fly a far one till the sun

00:04:17 - Promise to get in it's blue, it's fire

00:04:22 - Here I see a mortal who, as we beg to be forgiven,

00:04:37 - To your spirit I face the curse of sin, by a fallen shape of sun.

00:04:47 - Burn in the shadows of the world

00:04:55 - As the light falls to the sky above

00:06:03 - They all said it would end the war And we thank Christ for the bomb

00:06:20 - And the priests and witches all agree They should judge what we've been free

00:06:28 - Don't buy a moment, shave the sun

00:06:36 - Burn in the shadows of the ground

00:06:44 - As a way for you to die for life

00:06:51 - The end of time is all I've lost in them

00:07:00 - You don't see how