Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding

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Chet Baker (RIP) - trumpet

 

To me an absolutely beautiful track

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

That was also the then Argentine military fascist regime's (which started in 1976) attempt to divert int'l attention off 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 main 2 (bastard) military  in charge of the massacres were Jorge Videla  and Leopoldo Galtieri......Plus a bunch of others.....

 

Jorge Videla would also become President of the Republic for a brief period.....No comment

 

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/National_Reorganization_Process

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Torture ( geographical location) site

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Petty-Officers_School

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Argentina (started 1976) and Chile (started 1973) used to be the worst fascist military regimes in S.America (both coups)...Before that  (starting in 1964 until 1985)  there was Brazil

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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