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The members of "That's It" were afraid to come out pathetic.

Now they are stunned by the success

"That's It" puts out their first original song in 30 years, and tells of the fear of failure, the longing for the Gulf War and the excitement of success ("We thought they wanted us for the nostalgia").

Bonus: Gidi Gov tells about the quarrel with Ephraim Shamir that ended with the pulling out of a gun.

Special interview with five members of the program

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• Moni Moshonov

• Gidi Gov

• Shlomo Braba

• Debbie Glickman

• Avi Kushnir

• Alon Olarchik

Sagi Ben Nun

Thursday, 07 January 2021, 07:20

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Interview with the five stars of "This is It" - Gidi Gov, Shlomo Braba, Moni Moshonov, Debla Glickman and Avi Kushnir, following the release of an original song for the first time in about 30 years.

January 2021 (Interviewer: Sagi Ben Nun, Photographer: Niv Aharonson, Editing: Yardena Abodi Fox)

For the first time in 30 years, members of "This Is It" are releasing a new original song called "The Pizza at Heart", written and composed by Alon Olarchik and produced and edited by Amir Lekner.

Similar to the fine and moving cover versions sung by the five marvels in their program here 11, the new song also highlights the wonderful harmony between them and the chemistry between them all.

We met the legendary group that will soon mark a year of historical unification during the filming of the song clip, which is fully premiered here at Walla!

Culture, including a preliminary and joint interview with Gidi Gov, Shlomo Braba, Moni Moshonov, Debla Glickman and Avi Kushnir (watch the video interview above).

The cute song "Pizza in the Heart", which could have been very suitable even for a hive if it existed, at first glance seems light-hearted, and yet has a thoughtful and philosophical side to it.

It is about us always looking for what is not.

"We connect to this issue because we are human beings. And that's the nature of the human being - what I have is not good enough, I want better," says Avi Kushnir, "there is always a better party opposite."

"This song is really such a kind of parable, very kind, that we are looking for what we do not have," agrees Shlomo Braba, "I heard some shaman from Alaska say that all this corona came to wake us up to understand that what we have is a world and its fullness. We are surrounded by simple things , And with all the dreams of whaling and partying in Las Vegas, at the end of the day there's this day - to - day routine of vegetable salad. He says the corona signals us to calm down this material age of America, of more and more and more, because we'm pretty lucky at the end of Nothing, most of us. "

Gidi Gov: "You know, sometimes you hear a song and just connect to it, and not straight cut it, analyze it and find out. It's Olarchik, it's a lovely tune. The song is a bit sad - but it came out happy. It's a lovely song. First of all we connected To sing in general and after that, everyone can find the pizza in their heart during these days of closure. "

Debbie Glickman: "There's something much deeper here. The song 'Pizza in the Heart' wants to make you think like there's something deep behind the lyrics, while all it's is just a song about pizza. It's about a specific pizza I know what it is but I do not. I want to reveal that. "

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The pizza in the heart.

Members of "This Is It" (Photo: Micha Lubton)

The song takes us to Italy, while we are stuck in another quarantine that some claim is for political reasons.

Kushnir: "To me, this song just takes us to normalcy. It's a happy song on a sad subject. When we heard the song in the rehearsal room for the first time, we said wow, what a beauty! And that's it."

Glickman: "Ever since Braba's girl heard the song, she has not stopped singing it from morning till night. She wakes up in the morning and sings 'Pizza, pizza, pizza.'"

Braba confirms and adds: "The truth is that the whole kindergarten of my 5 and a half year old girl is just obsessed with the song. They are standing in the yard there and singing the song. Apparently there is an element of a children's song in it, and there is some mesmerizing ability in the song."

In fact, the cover versions of This Is It did to Corona what pizzas do to a lost evening - give comfort.

Lots of comfort.

Did you know that there will be such success for songs on the show?

Gov: "We did not know and had no idea. The sweet music producer and arranger Amir Lekner came, and slowly made a band of us. The songs we sang in 'This Is It' were such purposeful songs, part of the plot and more comic in general, with plays and costumes. Here's simple "We stood 'naked' and seriously sang beautiful songs, in voices. It turns out that our combination is very beautiful. And a new band came out into the world."

Kushnir: "The Golden Boys! I don't think you can aim for success. You can do what you do best, you can be diligent. Amir Lekner in his great wisdom took this togetherness of ours that has existed for 30-40 years anyway, and created something of us. "The truth is, when I come to the studio to sing, when we perform, I think everyone feels that way, it's like I'm undergoing treatment. It's something soothing."

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Gov: "I suddenly thought that today we are like someone learning guitar. So he plays all kinds of other solos, so that's how we did it, we sang other people's songs as beautifully as we could. And it was really great. And suddenly we got to the point where we put out a new song. Now this guitarist Says: Okay, here's my guitar.

Moshonov: "Once the five of us get together, we can overcome so many obstacles and punctures along the way.

To do the same plan again after so many years, and that it will not be accepted only in a nostalgic way but as a contemporary plan - it is a miracle.

And on the other hand, not to think we're entering an area that might be pathetic - that's the power of the five of us, not to think about it, but to just roll up our sleeves and do.

This has been the atmosphere from our first day here, and it still exists.

"It's a force of five, not just say hamsa."

The cover versions you released received a lot of positive reviews, and Galgalatz's playlist included the cover "Millions" against the background of the economic crisis. The million?

Gov: "I do not think about it at the moment, in this context."

Glickman: "He also agreed to be photographed with the prime minister, it is mutual."

Moshonov: "There is this great distress, we are united, and when it comes to songs it is another intention below before the surface.

This is something we do not so much know to recognize what this thing that suddenly connects people.

You sing 'Millions', obviously you know it's a song with power, but you do not understand the power of it because the actuality moves along with the song. "

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A gift that we are side by side.

"This is 2020" (Photo: Hanita Braunstein)

Are you vaccinated against corona?

Everyone except Braba and Glickman: "Yes."

Brava: "I am waiting for the Chechen vaccine, which is said to be the best of all."

Glickman says he was not vaccinated against the background of being infected in Corona, while filming HBO's "Oslo" movie in Prague, as revealed in Walla!

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"I have to tell you something," Glickman says, "when I left for a two-month filming for a movie in Prague, where it turned out that the highly regarded American director had heard about me from a show called 'This Is It.' He asked me and was interested. I showed him some YouTube. I told him that show Ran for over 20 years, and now all of a sudden after many years we came back. So he said, ah you came back to do this kind of special? I said to him: No, we're been back for a long time and it caught on again. He said to me: 'It has no brother and bad In the world! '".

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Gulf War.

When the Corona erupted many compared the period to the Gulf War.

And now it looks like something else, except that Projector Nachman Ash sounds like the name of then-IDF spokesman Nachman Shai, and from the fact that "This Is It" is still broadcast and relieves anxiety.

Kushnir: "The Gulf War was more fun."

Glickman: "It seems like they're both in a time of crisis. But then we were in a sequence of plans when there was suddenly that crisis. Here we came together for the purpose of the crisis."

Gov: "There is no doubt that the Jewish people, when there is a state of panic, we can have fun and come back. We are like a band. It is not that on a daily basis all these 30 years we have seen each other. No. We have hardly seen each other, only here and there talk on the phone. Situations of distress that created this joy. "

Moshonov: "Even in the Gulf War, just to remind you, after the first missile everyone escaped to the door of their mothers in some form. Then suddenly they called us who want to make a plan. We said 'do not make a plan now, it's too serious a time and too hard to make a plan." : 'Let's just sit and talk, no need to commit to making a show.' We came with all the producers and writers, we sat down, and it was a kind of therapeutic class like that. Everyone told their personal story. And slowly, from these personal stories, these sketches were created. I remember. The unwillingness to do it at first because we did not understand how important we are to other people. You are not aware of these things. The same thing here. There was the same feeling at the first moment - yes? No? Come on, we get into it right away. And it's a gift that we are next to each other ".

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Members of "That's It"

Moshonov: "What's beautiful about the Gulf War and today is that at first we took the familiar characters - Baba Buba and all the other friends who were our crutches in memory. And one of the symbols that the program is still relevant and kicking is that we no longer need Baba Buba."

"The truth must be told," Glickman says.

"I think we were all surprised by the success, and you could say it worked. I remember us all in meetings with very, very big fears of disappointing, and like shattering this myth of 'this is it'."

Gov. "True."

Glickman: "And we said, 'People want it just because of nostalgia. You can't just ride nostalgia.' We started looking for recipes on how to do it in a way that people would accept. What happened here is a huge surprise to everyone."

Kushnir: "We could do the best we could at that moment. Sitting here is a singer who has done so many songs. Can you choose a song that you know will be a lager? There is no such thing in this profession."

Brava: "There is a song we sang that sums up our experience, 'This is my second childhood.' This is our second childhood."

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Gidi, since we are dealing with a song written by Alon Olarchik, which deals with pizza, I must check with you if the story that few know about the journey of Hive in America, during a long fight with Ephraim Shamir, and spreading pizza on his guitar?

Gov. "You know what, it was pizza."

Glickman: "What, did you really fight?"

Gov. "Yes, for a split second."

And did you really spread pizza on his guitar?

"Yeah, I smeared pizza on Ephraim's new guitar. His new white Double Nick guitar."

Brava: "Well, it's a wonder that Ephraim is so bitter"

Glickman: "Didn't you apologize?".

Gov: "I did not apologize. He killed me, just killed me. But since then we are good friends."

And if that's not delusional enough, according to legend, at this point an American pulled out a gun.

This is true?

Gov: "That's right. One American production manager or the soundman, Ruby. He saw that we were many before the show, (and shouted) 'Hey, enough, guys, concentration.' And he pulled out a gun. It's American, it's in the DNA. "His islands. It's like one eats falafel from the pressure, he pulled out a gun. But he did not shoot us to my delight."

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