The boy who in a few years will fill his first Luna Park takes a Sui Generis record and looks at it.
On the cover there are two young men sprawled on a sidewalk.
Little Fito Páez caresses them as if his innocence were gone: there are
33 minutes and 17 seconds of rock
.
There are 11 songs that will mark a new generation of artists and several generations of fans.
Love after love
, the most watched series this week on Netflix, has that wonderful taste of something remembered, of events that reverberate not only in the memory of the characters but also in
all of us who immediately start to think about
what we were doing when we heard
Song for my death
for the first time .
And then a terrace in Avellaneda appears, a cold soda, a
bazooka
in the mouth, a slow with the boy you like.
Fito discovered Charly and Nito in a record store in Rosario where he went every Saturday with his father.
Others we discovered some time later dancing on a patchouli-scented terrace.
We did not imagine that
Vida
was going to become one of the
100 best Argentine rock albums
.
He was born just 50 years ago because Charly did everything he could to get rid of military service.
He simulated fainting and illnesses until someone - they say his mother - brought a bottle of amphetamines to Campo de Mayo.
This encouragement was so great
that he wrote continuously and in a few minutes Song for my death
.
A hymn for the generation leaving adolescence behind and moving on to adulthood.
And for all of us who believe that
There was a time that was beautiful and I was truly free.
Charly García and Nito Mestre on the cover of Vida, by Sui Generis.
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