Within the framework of a new birthday for the Argentine artist, one of the first great anecdotes that marked him deeply.
Carlos Alberto García, better known as Charly García, today turns 73 years old. The Argentine musician is considered one of the fundamental pillars to understand the national rock and popular music in the country. Furthermore, throughout his career he formed his own style, influenced by tango and classical music with the rock of The Beatles.
García became an essential name in Argentine music. Their powerful lyrics, full of irony, humor and social criticism, as well as his unique piano compositions and arrangements They left their talent for art established.
The artist earned his prestige for his works in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, including “Modern Clicks”, “The Fat of the Capitals”, “Piano Bar” and “How to Get Girls”among others. In that sense, for the creation of his first album with Nito Mestre called “Life”García has a shocking anecdote that surrounded the composition of one of his best-known songs: “Song for my death”.
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The story behind the composition of “Song for my death”
Charly was leaving school and was going to get that freedom he had longed for. However, was selected to enter mandatory military service. The young musician did not like this at all, and he tried to do everything in his power to get out of there. According to Charly in his special Bios from National Geographic, one day His mother took him to the Military Hospital “a bottle of amphetamines”.
Although Charlie He had no better idea than to take them all.hoping that would allow them to let him out. Obviously the result was not what was expected: it had a overdoseso he had to be treated by doctors. Despite this, The musician claimed to have experienced a death-like situationand In an epiphany and a burst of inspiration he composed “Song for My Death”.
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“There was a paper and a pencil and in ten minutes I had done it. I couldn’t sleep because I was so stuffy. “Music saved me,” García confessed.
There was a time when I was beautiful / And I was truly free / I kept all my dreams / In glass castles / Little by little I grew / And my fables of love / They were fading / Like soap bubbles / I will find you one morning / Inside from my room / And you will prepare the bed for tworeads the lyrics of the song that would make up the 1972 album “Vida”.
Why Charly García was able to leave mandatory military service
Now, Charly was still in military service, so began to devise escape strategies. The first was to feign physical impossibilities, and even He even lied that he suffered from heart diseasealthough that was not enough.
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It was there that he doubled down. The objective was to fake dementia, so he committed something truly crazy: He went into the hospital morgue room and grabbed a corpse to walk it around the Campo de Mayo. At one point, he was intercepted and said he had taken him out to sunbathe. “I saw him very pale”he confessed to them.
Shortly after, the Argentine Army declared Charly as “manic-depressive, with a schizoid personality,” which allowed him to leave the “colimba.”
Source: Ambito
