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Easy_Listening

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Oct 21, 2007, 12:07:27 AM10/21/07
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A follow-up to a four years old thread !

There's no Spanish or Mexican war in this song.

Three clues :

1) The music intro is performed adding a pan flute
of the Andes which brings South America as
the obvious place where the story sits.

2) The "Rio Grande" is also located in Bolivia
See Map at :
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagen:Ruta_del_Che_-_Bolivia_-_1967.png

3) This Map is actually the locations where Ernesto Che Guevara was
fighting the bolivian army in its last days back in 1967.
It happened that he had the code name "Ramon" for its operation
which was changed to "Fernando" after the capture of one of his men.
See : http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-133810073.html


piet

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Oct 21, 2007, 7:55:33 AM10/21/07
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There has actually been written a doctoral thesis about Abba's Fernando:

http://www.mediamusicstudies.net/mmmsp/fernando.html

Easy_Listening

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Oct 21, 2007, 9:27:37 PM10/21/07
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:55:33 +0200, piet <no-pla...@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>There has actually been written a doctoral thesis about Abba's Fernando:
>
>http://www.mediamusicstudies.net/mmmsp/fernando.html

Thanks for the info,

I was just adding my two cents on the subject, after a Google search
on this (Usenet) Group, noticing that Guevara hadn't been mentioned yet.

EZ.

DWJ

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Oct 22, 2007, 11:01:34 AM10/22/07
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It's about 4 minutes.

(Sorry; couldn't resist!)

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Easy_Listening

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Oct 22, 2007, 9:28:09 PM10/22/07
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:01:34 -0500, "DWJ" <dji...@comcast.net> wrote:

>It's about 4 minutes.
>
>(Sorry; couldn't resist!)
>

Indeed !

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.abba/msg/b294f7803db2572b?dmode=source&output=gplain

The Space Boss

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Oct 27, 2007, 11:27:16 PM10/27/07
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It is about Agnetha's first boyfriend and the heartache of their
breakup.

Easy_Listening

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Oct 29, 2007, 5:38:51 PM10/29/07
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:27:16 -0700, The Space Boss <drsmi...@aol.com> wrote:

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>It is about Agnetha's first boyfriend and the heartache of their
>breakup.

Truly argumented !

Arnold Gallagher

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Jun 24, 2008, 4:42:55 PM6/24/08
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Given the poor pronunciation they used on virtually all of their Spanish-
translated songs, despite having apparently worked with a native speaker to
achieve the translations, I'm not 100% certain they would have insisted on
historical accuracy in this pop song. The clues could be mere coincidence.
But I will read the doctoral thesis and see how wrong I am.


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