Friday night is songs with true stories behind them night.

[vernon]

El Fusilado by Chumbawamba. Stirring song with a dark side in its lyrics.

The song:


The story:
Wenseslao Moguel, from Mexico, was sentenced to death during the mexican revolationary war in 1915, And shot 9 times by the firing squad. All of them hit, and after Moguel was lying on the ground, he was shot once on the head, from a close distance. He however, didn't die, and after everyone were gone, he escaped. He was never caught, but his story became popular. In this picture, he is interviewed by Robert Ripley.

The picture:

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Bob Dylan - Hurricane. The story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a black boxer who was convicted on very shaky evidence, of a triple murder.

 

[User169]

Muttonbirds - Thing Well Made

[youtube]
]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxngv--q-kY[/youtube]


References the Aramona massacre from the point of view of a gun shop owner..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramoana_massacre

 

[dan_bo]

Alimony alimony payin' your bills....

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=GB

 

[slowmotion]

[media]
]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9A4HRzHz5Y[/media]

 

[User169]

Springsteen - Nebraska

[youtube]
]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iir_xAbt-ak[/youtube]


Based on Charles Starkweather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Starkweather

 

[Beebo]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrLdKYRBOEE

Sailing to Philadelphia - the story of the mason dixon line. Knopfler's greatest song IMO

 

[vernon]

Sailing to Philadelphia - the story of the mason dixon line. Knopfler's greatest song IMO

What's the Mason Dixon line?

 

[Beebo]

What's the Mason Dixon line?

The Mason–Dixon Line (or Mason and Dixon's Line) was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. It is a demarcation line among four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia). In popular usage, especially since the Missouri Compromise of 1820 (apparently the first official use of the term "Mason's and Dixon's Line"), the Mason–Dixon Line symbolizes a cultural boundary between the Northeastern United States and the Southern United States (Dixie). It was not the demarcation line for the legality of slavery, however, since Delaware, a slave state, falls north of the boundary. The Missouri Compromise Line had a much more definitive geographic connection to slavery in the United States leading up to the Civil War.[1]

 

[Cyclist33]

Er - aren't all songs based on a true story?

Stu

 

[vernon]

Er - aren't all songs based on a true story?

Tell me the true story behind this song then



I bet that you can not do it.

 

[Over The Hill]

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MNuDygBTMa0?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MNuDygBTMa0

I can get pictures in a post but not a youtube video - how do you do it??

Anyway - linkey is Hurricane - Bob Dylan.

 

[Cyclist33]

Tell me the true story behind this song then



I bet that you can not do it.

Well, I don't mean the story behind a song is necessarily blinkingly obvious, but they are all based on the truth in some way.

You're quite right - I am able to not tell you.

Stu

 

[vernon]

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MNuDygBTMa0?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MNuDygBTMa0

I can get pictures in a post but not a youtube video - how do you do it??

Anyway - linkey is Hurricane - Bob Dylan.

Have a look at the second posting. Someone beat you to it.

By the way future thread posters, please post the story behind the song too.

 

[accountantpete]

A bit obvious but - hey it's Friday night innit!

MIJ version

Some stupid with a flare gun torches the local venue.