Il 29 aprile 1993 moriva il grande Mick Ronson. In suo ricordo, vi posto il brano di David Bowie “Five Years”, con testo, traduzione e video.
Ricordando Mick Ronson.
Michael “Mick” Ronson (Kingston upon Hull, 26 maggio 1946 – Londra, 29 aprile 1993) è stato un chitarrista glam rock inglese, conosciuto prevalentemente come collaboratore negli arrangiamenti di David Bowie e del suo gruppo musicale The Spiders from Mars nonché per aver coprodotto insieme a quest’ultimo il secondo album solista di Lou Reed, Transformer.(Fonte Wikipedia)
Mick è stato un chitarrista straordinario, molto dotato tecnicamente, ma anche sperimentatore di suoni. Purtroppo come chitarrista è stato spesso snobbato per i soliti nomi, ma il suo apporto alla musica rock è stato fondamentale.
Pensate al suo periodo nei The Spiders from Mars di Bowie, assoli spettacolari, dove il rock, il blues, la psichedelia aprivano a quello che anni dopo sarebbe diventato il Punk.
Five Years è un brano musicale scritto dall’artista inglese David Bowie, prima traccia dell’album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars del 1972. (Fonte Wikipedia)
Testo: David Bowie – Five Years
Pushing through the market square,
So many mothers sighing
News had just come over,
We had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us,
Earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet,
Then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.’s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I’d need so many people
A girl my age went off her head,
Hit some tiny children
If the black hadn’t a-pulled her off,
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm,
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest,
And a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor,
Drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine,
Don’t think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you’re beautiful, I want you to walk
We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that’s all we’ve got
We’ve got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that’s all we’ve got
We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that’s all we’ve got
We’ve got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that’s all we’ve got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
Video Youtube: David Bowie – Five Years
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