STREAM: Radiohead – Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
From the Radiohead website:
Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111.
I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years ago on the Today program on Radio4.
The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me.
It became the inspiration for a song that we happened to record a few weeks before his death.
It was done live in an abbey. The strings were arranged by Jonny.
I very much hope the song does justice to his memory as the last survivor.It would be very easy for our generation to forget the true horror of war, without the likes of Harry to remind us.
I hope we do not forget.As Harry himself said
“Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims”.
I would venture to add that this is easily the best thing I’ve heard from the band in a decade. I am not ashamed to say that I dropped a tear.
Download the song in high quality here. All proceeds go to The Royal British Legion.
Listen to the interview Thom mentions here.
Lyrics:
“i am the only one that got through
the others died where ever they fell
it was an ambush
they came up from all sides
give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
i’ve seen devils coming up from the ground
i’ve seen hell upon this earth
the next will be chemical but they will never learn”
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Good lord that’s gorgeous, and very moving. I’m off to download the track in high quality right this moment.
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Akira The Don reply on August 5th, 2009 11:08 am:
Form an orderly que!
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August 5th, 2009 at 11:05 am
nice orchestral – usual problem with Radiohead – uninteligable lyrics and high pitched whinging – flop – and apologies to Harry.
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Dan reply on August 5th, 2009 3:59 pm:
These lyrics are words from Harry Patch himself, which makes it far more moving and emotional than anything Thom could write for such a tribute.
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