We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year, running over the same old grownd, and how we found the same old fears, wish you were here.
Karl Marx, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann, Joseph Roth, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, Max Weber, Erich Fromm, l’architetto Walter Gropius, i pittori Paul Klee, Wassili Kandinsky e Piet Mondrian, gli scienziati Albert Einstein e Sigmund Freud, i registi Fritz Lang e Franz Murnau. Sono alcuni degli autori le cui opere furono bruciate il 10 maggio 1933 dai nazisti perché accusati di aver corrotto e giudaizzato una presunta “cultura tedesca”.
Proprio li, in quella enorme piazza, che fino a poco tempo fa era anonima e vuota, adesso sorge questo monumento.
La Berlino di allora, ha provato a cancellare ogni traccia di quel periodo, ma la memoria per fortuna è ancora viva.
Heavy Weather is a legendary jazz fusion band alongside with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Miles Davis’ Electric Band. Led by Joe Zawinul from the beginning and then became more popular since Jaco Pastorious joined the band, this band had done so many formation-changing in 16 years of their career.
Birdland is their biggest hit which is in the first track from their most successful album, Heavy Weather. So propulsive, danceable, and energetic, this song became a pop hit and later became a jazz standard.
John Francis Anthony Pastorius III playing his composition, “Teen Town,” live in Italy in March 1986 with guitarist Biréli Lagrène and drummer Thomas Böröcz.
