Thanks for reminding us of a powerful political statement in a wonderful performance from Mr Hull. You will recall I was working in Argentina when the Malvinas episode happened and missed a lot of the jingoist posturing in the UK press. Appalling to see it was banned by the bbc at the time!
I promoted concert for Lindisfarne at my college in1984. This song was banned by the BBC at the time due to Alan choosing to use the name Malvinas. It was an anti-war song about the futility of troops dying for a desolate piece of land in the South Atlantic. I am not sure if it was known when this was written that the British Government were already negotiating with the Argentinians to lease the islands back to them. Thatcher had no problem getting 200+ brave lads killed to prove a point.
The above is a very narrow view; by the time you promoted Lindisfarne I had been a soldier for 6 years and had been injured during the Falkland's war. Any loss of life is tragic, but we were professional soldiers and knew what we were getting into. After several years of the irony (don't condemn the use of that word without looking at why the British Army got involved) of Northern Ireland a lot of us were looking forward, albeit with trepidation, to doing what we were 'paid for'. We knew about the oil and the Coalite-connection; we also knew, above all, that there were 1800 people out there who did not want to be Argentinian, and had not been consulted about the change of government. We had been told which of our allies had been providing weapons to the Argentine forces, the nature of these weapons and how to deal with them. Part of the process of Government is to prosecute war in defence of British interests; there then has to be attention given to preventing it happening again... hence the need to negotiate. Read the history of the Falkland's and you will find there was an invasion scare in the late 70s; that would indicate that there was a will and a prepardiness to be aggressive on the part of the Argentine for some time prior the the actual invasion. 255 'brave lads' did die out there and I could have been one of them but for my amazing luck. Please don't dimish the sacrifice, skill, tenacity, courage and intelligence of my comrades without having a good view of the bigger picture; above all don't fall for the lie that it was just about land.
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What a genius ! One of the greatest songs ever
thank you so much for posting this, brought a tear to my eye,
rip magic man
Thanks for reminding us of a powerful political statement in a wonderful performance from Mr Hull. You will recall I was working in Argentina when the Malvinas episode happened and missed a lot of the jingoist posturing in the UK press. Appalling to see it was banned by the bbc at the time!
Been wanting to hear a full version of this for ages ,Cheers.
Thank you for posting this.
best performance of MM I've ever heard!
I promoted concert for Lindisfarne at my college in1984. This song was banned by the BBC at the time due to Alan choosing to use the name Malvinas. It was an anti-war song about the futility of troops dying for a desolate piece of land in the South Atlantic. I am not sure if it was known when this was written that the British Government were already negotiating with the Argentinians to lease the islands back to them. Thatcher had no problem getting 200+ brave lads killed to prove a point.
The above is a very narrow view; by the time you promoted Lindisfarne I had been a soldier for 6 years and had been injured during the Falkland's war. Any loss of life is tragic, but we were professional soldiers and knew what we were getting into. After several years of the irony (don't condemn the use of that word without looking at why the British Army got involved) of Northern Ireland a lot of us were looking forward, albeit with trepidation, to doing what we were 'paid for'. We knew about the oil and the Coalite-connection; we also knew, above all, that there were 1800 people out there who did not want to be Argentinian, and had not been consulted about the change of government.
We had been told which of our allies had been providing weapons to the Argentine forces, the nature of these weapons and how to deal with them.
Part of the process of Government is to prosecute war in defence of British interests; there then has to be attention given to preventing it happening again... hence the need to negotiate. Read the history of the Falkland's and you will find there was an invasion scare in the late 70s; that would indicate that there was a will and a prepardiness to be aggressive on the part of the Argentine for some time prior the the actual invasion.
255 'brave lads' did die out there and I could have been one of them but for my amazing luck. Please don't dimish the sacrifice, skill, tenacity, courage and intelligence of my comrades without having a good view of the bigger picture; above all don't fall for the lie that it was just about land.
you have to do more x