December 8 TODAY IN HISTORY Massacre Theatre Friendship
Karamay, Xiaoxihu, Xinjiang Uygur - China
December 8, 1994
That day, in the presence of political and military authorities, was a wise course of dancing, singing and acting of the most talented students (about 800) between the primary and secondary schools in that province. The recital was held in a theater that was built in 1953 and was named "friendship with the Soviet comrades. "Later it was renamed simply" Friendship. "The theater was full, in all there were about 1,000 people, including children, teachers, assistants and authority. In the middle of the recitation of a fire broke out in the theater (probably caused by a short circuit), but a voice on the megaphone notice to students and teachers to be still in place (apparently to allow time for authorities to save themselves first.) Children and teachers obeyed but the fire spread very quickly and at the end of the budget was more than tragic: 323 people died, including 288 children aged between 6 and 14 years. The other victims were mostly teachers and auxiliary schools and theater. There were also 132 others injured. In 2010 a feature film was released in Italy in which the Chinese film director Xu Xin describes the massacre of the theater "Friendship". The film highlights the serious errors and omissions (such as the late arrival of firefighters, security doors closed, subsequent criticisms of the government) that multiply the sense of anger and helplessness before a so immense grief.
BORN TODAY Jim Morrison (Melbourne, Florida, December 8, 1943 - Paris, July 3, 1971) was an American singer and poet. "I'm the Lizard King, I Can Do Anything."
charismatic leader and frontman of American rock band The Doors, was one of the most important exponents of the cultural revolution of '68, and one of the greatest singers in rock history. Called the poet of sex and death, he drew inspiration from the works of poets cursed and is remembered as one of the greatest figures of the seductive power of rock music history. He was nicknamed "The Lizard King." His works and his life are the subject of almost religious admiration from many fans around the world. He was attracted by the culture of the novels of Jack Kerouac's beat, he was fascinated with the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, whose influences can be seen in his lyrics, from the greek theater (Dionysus and works such as The Bacchae of Euripides). It is found in the poetry of Jim Morrison still a strong influence of French symbolist poetry (Arthur Rimbaud and his philosophy on the unruliness of the senses to discover the unknown).
Surrounded by an aura that has often pulled over the damned poets and those of the beat generation, Jim Morrison was still one of the most inspiring of culture - at least according to many - related to the use of drugs, of which was accused of theorizing consumption, comforted by the thought Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Blake, Baudelaire.
"I want to feel the taste, I hear, I want to smell it. Death comes once, right? I do not want to miss the appointment. Amico [...] do not know. It could be the experience that gives you the missing piece of the puzzle ... "
Morrison died at his home in Paris July 3, 1971, in the bathtub.
After Morrison's death, the newspapers published articles in which he spoke of the "Curse of J". After the death of Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison now (all to 27 years), had assumed the days were also John Lennon and Mick Jagger.
Many fans and biographers have argued that the cause of his death was an overdose, the medical reports also spoke of cardiac arrest, but no autopsy was performed. Jim is buried in the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in the French capital.
Today his tomb is a place of pilgrimage by thousands of visitors and curious tourists, attracted by its myth.
The conspiracy theorists claim that Jim's death was all staged by the CIA (with its even the Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin), to "get rid" these "singers cursed" with their music that seduced millions of fans who rejected the war in Vietnam. It was decided that the three artists were negative figures for the company to the point of influencing young people and fans of the time. He then created a conspiracy that caused a kind of disregard of these subjects, which was never heard anything, except only in the form of fantastic legends about the life and alleged deaths.
TODAY disappeared John Lennon: John Winston Lennon was born Oct. 9, 1940 in Liverpool.
"Imagine there's no countries ", it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too" .
The first public appearance of the "Quarry Men", the first complex founded by Lennon, takes place June 9, 1957. The following July 9 during a concert held in Woolton, their sound deep impression a viewer named Paul McCartney at the end of the concert asked John to be heard for several minutes, accompanying himself on the guitar running quickly, "Be Bop A Lula" and "Twenty Flight Rock." John is struck by the fact that the boy not only uses the agreements that he ignores, but also because it knows the lyrics of those songs. And so it is the Lennon-McCartney duo and began that called the Beatles music.
In 1959 the Quarry Men changed their name to the Silver Beatles and become the attraction of fixed Casbah Club in Liverpool, managed by the mother of the new drummer, Pete Best. In August 1960 debut at the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, with some Sutcliffe on bass, where they play continuously for eight hours a day. To keep that pace John begins to take amphetamine pills, which supplied the waiters of the restaurant safely. In January of 1961, do their first gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. On April 10, 1962, Stewart, who had since remained in Hamburg, died of cerebral hemorrhage. On August 23, Cynthia and John are married to Mt Pleasant Register Office in Liverpool. The April 8, 1963 Cynthia gives birth to Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool, John Charles Julian Lennon. John begins with the use of hard drugs. In November 1966 John met Yoko Ono for the first time, an event that would change his life. On October 18 the two were arrested for possession and use of cannabis. Sent before the Marylebone Magistrates, are released upon payment of a deposit. The subsequent November 8 John divorced Cynthia. John and Yoko marry in Gibraltar March 23, 1969 and begin their bed-in at the Hilton Amsterdam. The initiative is designed to promote peace in the world, has a major impact on the world press. As a symbolic gesture, send a packet containing "seeds of peace" to the major world political leaders. John returned his MBE to the Queen's honors, as a protest against British involvement in the massacre of Biafra and the government support the U.S. in the Vietnam War.
In April 1970, the Beatles broke up, and although apparently not disturbed by the fact that much, John engages in fierce polemics with his now former friend Paul. In his first full lp Plastic Ono Band says "I do not believe in Beatles, I just believe in me, Yoko and me, I was the walrus, but now I'm John and so dear friends you just have to go on, the dream is over. " The next album, Imagine, lashes out against John Paul McCartney with the hard text How do you sleep? "The sound it produces is musicaccia to my ears, but you should have learned something in all these years."
In the second half of the same year John and Yoko split up. The separation is interrupted more than a year later, when the two see each other again at the appearance of John the Elton John concert at Madison Square Garden November 28, 1974. Another milestone in the short life of John is the birth of her second son, in conjunction with its thirty-fifth birthday, October 9, 1975 Yoko Ono gave birth to Sean Taro Ono Lennon. From now devotes his life to the family, gathering material for new songs, until December 8, 1980 he was assassinated by a fan in search of fame. Ilaria Biancacci
