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Queen finds asylum in Moldova

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norman lebrecht

February 22, 2020

You never know where a song is going to go.

One more?

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V.Lind says:

February 22, 2020 at 9:14 am

You gotta love it. A young man born in Zanzibar to a Parsi family from India moves to England, becomes the star of a major English band and writes songs for them including We Are the Champions, to be sung years later by peasants in the fields of Moldova, a country of such chequered history that its (seemingly quixotic) wish to enter the EU actually makes a kind of sense.

So much for sneering at pop music. Here’s to ya, Freddie, wherever you are.

esfir ross says:

February 23, 2020 at 5:59 pm

Don’t call them peasant-some work on their own vineyards and orchads. They may studied English at school, Western music’s very popular and accessable. Moldova was fruit and vegetable basket of USSR. Very furtile land and warm climate.

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