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translation by Corinna A storyteller, that sang in Lebanon by MICHAEL ZIRNSTEIN The Irish Chris de Burgh, 57, for decades successfully with his melodious Rock music, sings about love and war. In October his new album “Storyman” will be released. He talked with us also about Lebanon. JOURNAL: What is the idea behind “Storyman”? CHRIS DE BURGH: I tell gladly stories. The buyer of my CD also gets the stories to the song texts, some three, four pages long. In former times my musicians always wanted to know: “What is this piece actually about?” So I told it to them like a film. It’s the same thing here. JOURNAL: Why don't you work sometimes as a director at a film? DE BURGH: I’m not familiar with the technology. But indeed I am involved in a film project: “Through These Eyes”. JOURNAL: You sing stories from many parts of the world. DE BURGH: One song sounds even like the Near East. I co-operated there with Hani Hussein, who recorded his part of the songs in Beirut, before the bombs fell. JOURNAL: Some time ago you recorded a song in Lebanon: Lebanese Nights. DE BURGH: A friend of mine, Irish consul in Beirut, told me that people listened to my music when the first bombs fell at that time on Beirut. When the war ended at the beginning of the 90's, I was invited as a first international artist to play there before 10,000 people. That was very emotional. Since then I was often there. 2004 I noticed the Palestine irony: that one of the largest problem centers of the world is the birth place of Jesus and the Christianity. JOURNAL: Strangely that people from the Near East like your western sounds. DE BURGH: No idea, why. I am enormously successful strangely enough also in Iran. My Internet page is visited there 70 times oftener than somewhere else. JOURNAL: Do you believe that Pop singers can reach politically something? DE BURGH: No. We can help at the most that people understand something more about the world. For example that people see: “I believe there is a God. But my God is not bigger than yours.” |
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