Shoot at Indio Solari: the nets burned because he killed Paul McCartney and Elvis Presley

Every individual has the right to free expression and Indio Solari Also. Last Sunday an episode of Black boxthe series of interviews by Julio Leiva which ended with the stellar presence of Solari, with whom he joked about “being a couple” given that with the consent of the artist Leiva directed a documentary entitled Tsunami: an ocean of peopleon the call of the Indio Solari.

In this new intervention, the head of the musician who is about to turn 75 seems to continue working with well-oiled turbines even if he falls into some contradictions arising from one’s own thinking.

For example, his opinion on Paul McCartney and Elvis Presley, a sad combination of ignorance, ideological prejudice and a certain conviction sedimented by a long life spent retaining those fossilized ideas.

Despite the long life of the genre, for Carlos “Indio” Solari rock and roll is something for young people, and not for older men who would try – in his opinion – to prolong a youth they no longer enjoy and to maintain a business , from which he doesn’t shy away even in his new role as Mister and the Extinct Marsupials. Or like DT of the Air Conditioning Fundamentalists.

Criticism of Elvis Presley

“Elvis is a Vegas actor, don’t sell him as a rocker“, shot the Indian in the interview. Error: Elvis Presley, in reality, was from Memphis, a key city in the American South, and was born a few miles away in Tupelo, where he grew up in the greatest poverty.

He wasn’t a composer, but he was the man who embodied the courage of rock and roll body and soul, not just as a matter of appearance or sensual movements, but because he was one of the best singers in the history of mankind.

Hearbreak Hotel, Jailhouse Rock, blue suede shoes, Hound Dog (perhaps a precursor to the twist My dynamite dog?) OR Everything shakenthey were the driving forces that established rock and roll as a genre impossible to ignore, and The figure of Presley was the one who exported the rock and roll revolution across the planet when globalization did not exist. All the great men of music, including his admired John Lennon, agreed in saying: “Before Elvis there was nothing”.

What confused Solari was Elvis’ cinematic period, set in Los Angeles, which spawned nonsensical films and subpar soundtracks in the 1960s. One of those movies was Long live Las Vegasin which he starred with Ann-Margret in 1964.

In reality, Elvis lived in his Graceland villa in Memphis, much more sumptuous than the Indian property in Parque Leloir, Castelar, Buenos Aires province, and had a residence in California’s deserted Palm Springs.

It’s true that Presley did a residency at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in the 1970s, but it was a bold and unusual move at the time, part of a renaissance as an artist that Presley experienced when he tired of Hollywood and returned in 1968 to present himself as a “rocker”, easily surpassing his stature.

If you Google “Elvis Presley Comeback Special”, the Indian will find detailed information and many excerpts from that television special, where Elvis proves he can beat any other rock and roll singer.

Sticks for Paul McCartney

In another paragraph, Solari splits the waters between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, whose songs as a soloist seem flan to him. Here misinformation seems to play a leading role, because it is true that McCartney has made custards in 18 solo albums to which we should add another 7 with Wings: 25 albums of varying quality. But there are many of their songs that aren’t.

Did the Indian hear? Maybe I’m surprised, that unstoppable ballad that shouldn’t go unnoticed by a tough guy like Solari, who also makes room for love in his speech? Going to the other end of the ride, McCartney III It’s an album that the former Beatle made during the pandemic playing all the instruments and which is much more adventurous and experimental, as Solari likes to say, than many of the albums he made without his Redonditos de Ricota.

OK, Ebony and ivory It is a flan cooked in 1982 together with pastry chef Stevie Wonder. But the same can be said Elena Wheels, a full-fledged rock and roll? Or that album Gang on the run It’s not a pastry masterpiece, just like that Tug of war, flaming cake (“burning cake”, a hot custard), Heavy rain OR Newall good works?

The author of these lines would be invited to suggest two works: Chaos and creation in the backyardperhaps Paul’s best album as a soloist, released in 2005, where among a couple of puddings stand out songs of overwhelming beauty such as Jenny Wrenwho has a social look, a look that “the shy singer” seems not to have seen. Consult your ophthalmologist, Mr. Solari.

Lennon and politics

John Lennon, on the other hand, is praised by El Indio for being an artist”up to the tits in politics”, as if only by approaching these themes would the music be better, higher or more meritorious (even if it must be assumed that Solari abhors meritocracy).

Lennon had your pacifist period, songs like Revolution in which he stated that “if you continue to carry Premier Mao’s flags, you will never reach him”, and was also seen giving notes to left-wing British journalists, such as activist Taric Ali.

This side of Lennon began in 1968 but petered out in 1972, when American radicals like Jerry Rubin tried to use him as a flag, and especially at the time when Richard Nixon won re-election, and Lennon got drunk and locked himself in a room… with the wife of the owner of the house where the results were monitored, and they make love loudly, before the astonished ears of the other revolutionaries and, above all, those of Yoko Ono, present on the scene.

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When McCartney attempted his political move in 1972, he made a simple appeal Give Ireland back to the Irish, a tasteless political impulse that aroused enormous criticism. But he has also collaborated with PETA, an organization that defends animal rights with sometimes violent methods, and has been seen supporting various charitable causes. Will it be political enough for Solari? Maybe it’s not enough.

There are other examples, but this is an excerpt from Flanero’s book Paolo: the lyrics, published in 2021: “There was a president named Trump who thought climate change was a fraud created by the Chinese. Unfortunately, he was not the only one to ignore this existential threat (…) The topic of climate change is not new; As a child I remember watching a television program in which three scientists (who seemed very old to me) were already talking about the future of the planet and drawing up a roadmap to follow (…) I have always written songs about what interested me. The topic doesn’t have to be important; It can be a sentimental love song, a sad song. And sometimes a message that I try to get across to people.”

And it is better not to go into the merits of the contribution that Paul McCartney gave to the Beatles, because probably without him John Lennon would not have found the necessary piece that made him work when he preferred to take things more calmly.

Without talking about topics like Lady Madonna (another topic with a social perspective), You never give me your money (about the cutthroat of the music business) or the same thing Let it be, a song that brought back good humor (something Solari seems to care a lot about) to people who had lost it. In that song he also evokes the memory of his mother who died of cancer when Paul was fourteen and says that in her “hour of doubt, mother Maria comes to me telling me words of wisdom: she leaves like this”.

It seems that Solari bought more than the postcard of Elvis and Paul McCartney and so on he expressed a superficial opinion without bothering to know the whole story of the Milanese. Or flan in this case, a genre no stranger to those who wrote “silly love songs” like “Susanita, so pretty, a girl your father brought,” or “Come on brave, do it for me/Come on brave , dance until the end.

Perhaps he will say that the rest of the lyrics are not included: the same standard that he applied to Elvis Presley or Paul McCartney, which established the pillars on which the 1960s counterculture scene could later be built, which the Indian he admires. so much and how ephemeral it turned out to be.

Come on, Solari. Don’t complain about the flansthat “no one makes the bitter sweet”, as you sang.