Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding

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Chet Baker (RIP) - trumpet

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anti-war song ...Namely UK-Argentina (Falklands / Malvinas islands possession 1982)...

 

That was also the then Argentine military fascist regime's attempt to divert int'l attention from the massacre of people they were systematically kidnapping, torturing and killing ( about 50,000) including pregnant women whose children then were adopted by military families...Many opposers being dropped from helicopters into the Atlantic ocean....The 2 generals  in charge of the massacre were Jorge Videla  and Leopoldo Galtieri

 

In 1983 the Country returned to Democracy with  a freely  elected President ( Raul Alfonsin)...At last

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War

 

 

 

Argentina regime

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Rafael_Videla

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Galtieri

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Composed by the great  Burt Bacharach and previously performed by Dionne Warwick, Bacharach's fave. singer of his tracks.....