tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38519501.post5838926215960190976..comments2024-03-27T23:29:50.560+00:00Comments on History is made at night: Homage (from a beach) in CataloniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38519501.post-28493871531554635332009-09-30T22:51:53.380+01:002009-09-30T22:51:53.380+01:00What about Raimon? Have you come across him?
&quo...What about Raimon? Have you come across him?<br /><br />"In 1958, a 17 year old working class lad from Xativa, an industrial town in the provence of Alicante wrote an apparently conventional teenage song about riding pilion on a motorbike. He was called Raimon and the song was called Al Vent - In The Wind - 'Face in the wind, heart in the wind, hands in the wind, the wind of the world'.<br /><br />And thence this song became taken up by those who desired to resist the fascist regime with amazing consequences...<br /><br />Full story in Catalonia by Michael Eaude (Signal Press, 2007)THE RUINISThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02236992578589602948noreply@blogger.com