Wiranto sings

[elena]

What's the something about politics & singing? When Prince Charles was
visiting Bulgaria, our president sang to him (on two occasions, with and
without guitar) Beatles' "All You Need Is Love". Charles looked aside
obviously embarrassed...
I prefer the oldie Russian TV show "Finances Sing Romances", which seemes to
have got out of tune, though...
Newest political singing (preelections) is "Let's Patch The Sky (in
Australia)" (aye, Angie, hold on, they're coming...) and none about DU in
the blue Danube.
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Date: 20 Ñåïòåìâðè 1999 ã. 21:56
Subject: Wiranto sings


>[bounced for an address oddity]
>
>From: jeff.downing at harcourt.com
>Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:04:54 -0500
>
>>From Greil Marcus' column in today's Salon:
>
>Associated Press, "Music, the
>Universal Language," Sept. 13
>
>  "After a week of chaos and terror in East
>  Timor, Indonesia's powerful military boss sang
>  'Feelings' yesterday to show why he can't walk
>  away from the independence-minded province.
>
>  "To cheers from retired military officers at a
>   party, Defense Minister Gen. Wiranto
>   dedicated the song to foreign journalists: 'I
>   hope you have the same feelings, like me, for East Timor.'
>
>  "His eyebrows arched in restrained emotion, Wiranto held the
>  microphone in both hands and stood stiffly in a yellow batik shirt
>  and crooned as a band played the l975 hit popularized by Paul
>  Williams:
>
>  "'Feelings, nothing more than feelings ...'"
>
>  I can't go on. This is just too sick. You always knew the song
>   was rotten, but evil?