Episode 212: Sabaton Primo Victoria year 2005. English Version.

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00:00:37 - Today a group and a song with history, the first victory.

00:00:48 - Finding classic rocks all time the most incredible stories and anecdotes.

00:00:54 - Musicians Bruce Dickinson.

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00:01:25 - I think are useful, just because of the fact that with what I try and do, it's important to try and.

00:01:36 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley.

00:01:38 - The piano was inconceivable.

00:01:39 - I mean, you can't just go and buy a piano, or his guitar is much more accessible.

00:01:45 - I think I was very driven period.

00:01:47 - It was to compensate.

to make myself feel more worthy.

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00:02:02 - Sabaton is a Swedish power metal band, formed in 1999 in the city of Fallen.

00:02:08 - The group is characterized by its militarized aesthetics and its lyrics with historical war content.

its name comes from the part of the medieval armor that covers the instep of the foot and that in Spanish is called escarpment.

00:02:23 - The song Primo Victoria, besides being vintage, is historical, belongs to the homonymous album, and was released in 2005.

00:02:33 - It was an amazing introduction song for the band, and I began to realize that they really had a great sound, great beat, great lyrics and really catchy choruses, perhaps the best that has been written in more than 15 years.

00:02:51 - Primo Victoria is about D-Day, so it's an epic and historical song.

00:02:56 - On that day, the Allied forces landed in France, and the freedom of Europe began to take shape.

00:03:02 - The original day for the landing had been set for June 5, 1944, but poor weather and sea conditions caused Allied Supreme Commander, Dwight David Eisenhower to postpone it until June 6th, giving them more time to rehearse their movements.

00:03:21 - Let us remember that the place of Calais was going to be chosen to disembark, but it was decided on Normandy.

00:03:29 - The Germans expected the invasion at the Potty Calais because it was the shortest distance of the channel between France and England and therefore it was the best protected area with the most obstacles. That is why Normandy was chosen.

00:03:46 - So that we have full knowledge of the feat and the magnitude of the operation, some of the surviving soldiers told.

00:03:52 - June 44, when I was in the Norma D, I was about 18, 19 years old.

00:03:59 - And now, hours a day, I am 94.

00:04:08 - My name is George Champa. I'm 93, I'll be 94 in a couple of weeks.

00:04:13 - I was in the 607th Grieves Registration Company on D-Day in 1944.

00:04:19 - In Waldo we had a young man's son who had a business of food and substances and so on. My father and I were good friends. We had to, if we had to, we had to greet him. He said, if he comes over, he won't greet him, but a good day.

00:04:36 - And I think my father knew who he was. He said to the man's son,

00:04:42 - When I turned 18, I got drafted. You know, I was very young. I had never been on any kind of a trip before. It was a lonesome feeling. You know, leaving the shore, all of a sudden you're out of, getting out there in the ocean, and you're out of your mind.

mean I got drafted. You know, I was very young. I had never been on any kind of a trip before.

00:05:06 - It was a lonesome feeling, you know, leaving the shore. All of a sudden you're out getting out there in the ocean, getting further and further away from home. We knew where we were going. Invasion day on the English Channel. Allied fighting men equipped with all types of firepower, with tanks, trucks and bulldozers, board landing craft for the long anticipated to be dissolved on Fort Resura.

00:05:28 - We're anchored right side to shore, and the German artillery is constantly firing.

00:05:39 - You can see ships getting hit.

00:05:41 - We didn't know if we were going to get hit, so everybody got on the side of the ship opposite the shore, waiting for our turn to go down the rope ladders.

00:05:49 - I can't tell you now how long we waited.

00:05:53 - All I know is I had to get down into a LCI landing craft.

00:05:58 - And then from there, we started heading into the shore.

00:06:03 - And you're seeing guys getting hit.

00:06:06 - You're seeing bodies.

00:06:07 - I was scared to death.

00:06:10 - Tell you the truth, I blacked out for a while.

00:06:13 - I didn't know which way it was up.

00:06:16 - Half of our guys went out at Omaha and half went into Utah.

00:06:20 - I was at Utah Beach.

00:06:23 - See, Omaha is where most of the shelling was coming from.

00:06:26 - These guys were dug in, and our Air Force couldn't even get them because they were entrenched, and they were in machine gun nests up above the cliff in Omaha.

00:06:38 - They were shooting at guys like ducks.

00:06:42 - I had to get ready to go to St. Mary Glees.

00:06:47 - Once there was a group, heavy machine guns, the foreman, the first and the second men, the headshot, and the third and the fourth men carrying the ammunition boxes.

00:06:59 - I was a normal foreman.

00:07:02 - I saw the American wounded, the German wounded.

00:07:05 - I didn't see them, I only heard them when they shouted.

00:07:09 - My comrades helped me.

00:07:11 - I noticed that no one wanted to die because of it.

00:07:15 - They were all young people who wanted to live.

00:07:20 - Our government didn't want bodies lying around for other troops coming in to see that.

00:07:25 - And so we gathered them as quickly as we could.

00:07:29 - We had 17 temporary cemeteries throughout France, Belgium and Germany.

00:07:33 - We gathered approximately 75,000 dead soldiers soldiers that's American and German because the Germans didn't pick up their dead we did we buried them in a separate temperature and we just had markers over the graves one dog tag left on the body one tack to the marker that was our job you're working like a robot you're seeing 18 19 20 year old guys getting killed you remember something like that you remember when you see the guts of a soldier. I mean, I couldn't look at their faces, you know, it's just, we handle bodies in unimaginable conditions throughout those 11 months, not just at Norman.

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00:08:25 - Singer Joe Kimbrough Dane's voice is perfect for the job. It is a proud, deep and dark voice that really gives the song a superior quality.

00:08:35 - The song spells strength wherever you look at it.

00:08:41 - The band, in an interview in 2016, told us about the genesis of this song and the theme of its lyrics.

00:08:49 - Well, it was a kind of unconscious choice when we started doing that.

00:08:54 - More than ten years ago, there was writing the music for the song Cousin Victoria, it had a really great sound.

00:09:00 - And we couldn't decide what to write about.

00:09:03 - It didn't feel right to write about drinking beer, fucking women, killing dragons, so we decided to do a song about Normandy and the D-Day landings.

00:09:14 - When we started writing songs and doing some research, it turned out that writing lyrics was more interesting than before.

00:09:21 - At that time, around 2004, we decided to make a record about military history and that became Primo Victoria.

00:09:30 - There are so many great stories from our past that have been forgotten, so why make up new ones?

00:09:39 - It is perhaps the best known and requested of his songs.

00:09:43 - A compulsory repertoire in all recitals and the chorus is simply epic.

00:09:47 - Invites you to watch again and again the first scenes of the movie rescue in Private

00:09:52 - Ryan.

the gates of hell as we make our way to heaven through nazi lines premium victoria joe kim bro danon a recent report tells us okay well you you have your son as the as the gates of through the gates of hell as we make our way to heaven yeah so the gates of hell as we make our way to heaven through the nasa lines lights um tell me because uh it's like

00:10:24 - I think it has never been written such a revealing verse of how the American troops won the highest honors in Europe

00:10:34 - So why sometimes the people say that you are like next to the Nazi

00:10:42 - Oh, well I think it's true because in fact you say all the opposite

00:10:48 - Yes, I mean we don't take, we're controversial enough as it is, we sing about military history

00:10:53 - And if you take one single line from any song, you can make any kind of assumption.

00:10:59 - We've been singing about military conflicts from all kinds of sides over the years.

00:11:04 - And nine times out of ten, it's very easily explained, you know.

00:11:10 - Hey, look at this and you talk to people. People are smart in general.

00:11:13 - When they want.

00:11:15 - When they want, exactly.

00:11:16 - But one of those ten doesn't want to understand.

00:11:20 - So that person, no matter what you say, is still gonna think that we're communists or we don't see that we are whatever, you know.

00:11:52 - We've been trading for years, now we're ready to strike

00:12:03 - A great operation begins

00:12:07 - For the first ways on shore, for the first ones to fall

00:12:11 - Yet soldiers have fallen barefoot

00:12:14 - In the dawn, no pain, the rise has surprised

00:12:19 - His sword is written today

00:12:22 - In his burning inferno

00:12:24 - Where nothing remains

00:12:26 - As our forces are bound on the beach

00:12:30 - Aiming for heaven, no serving in hell

00:12:34 - Victory's ours, our forces will fall

00:12:38 - The gates of hell

00:12:40 - As we make our way to heaven

00:12:42 - To the dancing lion

00:12:45 - Revoid for ya

00:12:47 - On the 6th of June

00:12:49 - On the shores of Western Europe 94.4

00:12:53 - D-Day upon us

00:12:59 - We've been living for

00:13:01 - This kind of war

00:13:03 - Cross fire, grind through the sand

00:13:07 - Orders were leased

00:13:09 - It's kill or be killed

00:13:11 - London on sides will be spilled

00:13:14 - In the dawn they will pay

00:13:16 - Your pain, your minds are surprised

00:13:18 - His story's written today

00:13:22 - Now that we are all with the axis again

00:13:26 - This time we know what will come

00:13:30 - Aiming for heaven, no serving in hell

00:13:34 - Victory sauce, no bosses will fall

00:13:38 - The gates are held

00:13:40 - As we make our way through heaven

00:13:42 - To the Nazi lines

00:13:45 - We hold it for ya

00:13:47 - For the 6th of June

00:13:49 - On the shores of western Europe 94 and more

00:13:53 - Today upon us 6th of June 1944 Allies have turned in the war

00:14:44 - Normandy, state of anarchy!

00:14:51 - Gazing for heaven of serenity

00:14:55 - Victory sails, our forces will call

00:14:59 - Through the gates of hell, doesn't make our way to heaven

00:15:03 - Through the night of violence

00:15:06 - Reborn Victoria, on the 6th of June

00:15:10 - On the shores of Western Europe, 1944

00:15:14 - DJ Dapardos, through the gates of hell

00:15:19 - Has made her way to heaven, through the Nazi lines

00:15:23 - Reborn Victoria, on the 6th of June

00:15:27 - On the shores of Western Europe, 1944

00:15:32 - Reborn Victoria