The concert tribute to the South African black leader Nelson Mandela
Introduction
One billion people, in more than 50 countries, witnessed yesterday the tribute concert that musicians from all over the world paid in Wembley’s stadium to the South African black leader Nelson Mandela, who, about to turn 70, has almost 26 imprisoned for fighting against the racist regime of Pretoria. Except for exceptions, presenters and artists showed a restrained comedy in their apartheid sentences. John Carlisle, the conservative parliamentarian who has instigated criticism against the broadcast of the concert, has demanded the resignation of those responsible for the BBC for allowing such demonstrations to air.
Developing
They must roll heads
The BBC’s decision to offer the concert caused rash between the conservative parliamentarians closest to South Africa and protests by Pretoria. The producers of the program apparently did nothing to dismant. These pronouncements were, in most cases, restrained, without ceasing to be firm, and evidenced an interest in not creating additional problems in South Africa to the BBC, whose presence in that country is now in danger.
However, there were also those who repeatedly referred to terrorism of the Government of South Africa or apartheid cancer amid the satisfaction of the more than 70.000 people who witnessed the concert live. A overpoted sky and a fresh day did not make a dent in the festive of Wembley, in which the comments made from the stage found an extraordinary echo, with thousands of voices shouting. Now it is OK! Of jail for mandela or asking how much more? Will continue in prison.
They were political responses to a concert raised as a political event, although on the field there could not. With the recital it was intended to extend the knowledge about Mandela’s personality and stimulate the interest in what happens in the African Southern Cone, to which, without a doubt, the artistic success obtained will contribute.
conclusion
Pop and rock stars such as Sting, Simple Minds, Dire Straits or Withney Houston shared the tables for ten hours with groups formed by African artists or Australian aborigines or with creators persecuted by Pretoria such as Miriam Makeba or Hugh Marekela. Stevie Wonder adapted the lyrics of the popular and Just Call to say i love you at Mandela’s 70th birthday and said: until you are free, there is no man, woman or child, of the color that is, that is free. Wonder’s performance, who sang even though he was stole.
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