Sometimes dreams make their travel like a Stone
thrown in the beach. Firstly, they gain height in a fast, brilliant flight.
Then, from the top of some vague goal, inevitably, they fall down even faster
than they rose before. That fatal way is traced not only by personal dreams but
by time’s dreams. The counterculture spread
out Europe and America in the 1950’-1960’ in the form of the beat generation
and the hippy movement. It was a big stone’s travel, full of a huge amount of
new ideas, new aesthetic conceptions, critical thinking, political activism
and, of course, dreams. The dream of a new identity for human being beyond
borders and flags, the dream of a new better world of freedom and equality, the
dream of living in peace…
The dreams turned into fashions, devoured by
the establishment. The stone fell down and sank in the sea, where every broken
dream ends.
I know for sure that Pete Townshend didn’t want
to do a historic metaphor with his Quadrophenia,
but in fact, it is. Quadrophenia is one
of the so called rock Operas. In a strong and symphonic conception of rock,
this work was recorded by The Who in 1973. Later, in 1979, became the sound
track of a film, directed by Franc Roddan and with Sting as Ace Face. You can watch Quadrophenia on TV tonight (La
2).
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