cctm collettivo culturale tuttomondo The Specials (UK)
The Specials, Nelson Mandela, 1984
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Free Nelson Mandela
Free, free, free, free, free
Nelson Mandela
Free Nelson Mandela
Twenty-one years in captivity
Shoes too small to fit his feet
His body abused but his mind is still free
Are you so blind that you cannot see?
I said free Nelson Mandela
I’m begging you, free Nelson Mandela
Pleaded the causes at the ANC
Only one there in a large army
Are you so blind that you cannot see?
Are you so deaf that you cannot hear his plea?
Free Nelson Mandela
I’m begging you, free Nelson Mandela
Twenty-one years in captivity
Are you so blind that you cannot see?
Are you so deaf that you cannot hear?
Are you so dumb that you cannot speak?
I said free Nelson Mandela
I’m begging you, free Nelson Mandela
Free Nelson Mandela
Begging you, begging you please
Free Nelson Mandela
You’ve got to, you’ve got to
You got to free
You got to free
You got to free
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
I’m telling you, telling you, telling you
You’ve got to free, you’ve got to free
You’ve got to free, you’ve got to free
Nelson Mandela
The Specials, Nelson Mandela, 2 Tone, 1984
Stan Campbell – lead vocals
Jerry Dammers – organ
John Shipley – guitar
Gary McManus – bass
John Bradbury – drums
Rhoda Dakar – vocals
Molly Jackson – vocals
Polly Jackson – vocals
Dick Cuthell – trumpet
Andy Aderinto – saxophone
David Heath – flute
Paul Speare – penny whistle
Afrodiziak (Caron Wheeler, Naomi Thompson, Claudia Fontaine), Molly Jackson, Polly Jackson, Lynval Golding, Elvis Costello, Ranking Roger, Dave Wakeling – backing vocals
Nelson Mandela (Mvezo, 1918 – Johannesburg, 2013) è stato un politico e attivista sudafricano, presidente del Sudafrica dal 1994 al 1999.
Antagonista, con il predecessore Frederik de Klerk, dell’apartheid e insieme a questi insignito del premio Nobel per la pace nel 1993, Mandela fu il primo presidente sudafricano non bianco a ricoprire tale carica; attivista per i diritti civili e avvocato, aveva scontato 27 anni di carcere per la sua lotta al segregazionismo razziale.
Rivoluzionario e successivamente uomo di un governo di riconciliazione e pacificazione, fu a lungo uno dei leader del movimento anti-apartheid ed ebbe un ruolo determinante nella caduta di tale regime, pur passando in carcere gran parte degli anni dell’attivismo anti-segregazionista … continua a leggere su Wikipedia
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cctm collettivo culturale tuttomondo The Specials (UK)