Kyiv Calling

Sharon W Member Posts: 719	Kyiv Calling Mar 20, 2022 9:53:38 GMT -8 Brian, anni, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Sharon W on Mar 20, 2022 9:53:38 GMT -8 From the Free Ukraine Resistance Channel,
	Last Edit: Mar 20, 2022 21:52:05 GMT -8 by Brian: Video originally posted became "private."

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Post by Brian on Mar 20, 2022 23:00:52 GMT -8

Thanks, Sharon! A few hours after you posted the video from the Free Ukraine Resistance Channel, they changed its status on You Tube video to "private." I replaced the black screen with the official video by the band, Beton. While I was looking for that, I also found a transcription of what sounds like a press release on another You Tube channel called Moment News. In part:

Ukrainian punk band Beton have reimagined The Clash's hit single London Calling as an "anthem" of "solidarity and hope" amid the Russian invasion. The trio - Bohdan Hrynko, Oleg Hula and Andriy Zholob - recorded the new version, titled Kyiv Calling, on Thursday and Friday this week in a music studio in the city of Lviv...A music video accompanying the song features footage from friends and family of the band, plus colleagues and volunteers, of Russian attacks taking place across Ukraine, from Kharkiv to Kyiv. The track was mixed and mastered by producer Danny Saber, one of the last people to work with Joe Strummer, lead singer of The Clash before his death in 2002. Proceeds from the song will go to the Free Ukraine Resistance Movement (FURM) - a citizen-led network bringing together 30 non-governmental organisations from across the country. Since the war began, guitarist and vocalist Zholob has been working as an orthopaedist doctor treating war victims and soldiers while drummer and vocalist Hrynko and bassist and vocalist Hula have joined the territorial defence force, and are prepared to take up arms when asked...FURM thanks the Clash for their support in our darkest hour. Bring on the dawn.

As a fan for 49 years of Mott the Hoople -- Britain's greatest most unrecognized band -- it's my duty to mention that the "London Calling" album was produced by Guy Stevens, the man who discovered Mott the Hoople, hired Ian Hunter from an advert and one audition to replace the lead singer, named the band (he also named Procol Harum) and produced three of the first four Mott the Hoople albums. Clash guitarist and song co-writer Mick Jones is three years older than me -- he used to get invited backstage at Mott's shows in England when he was only 15, too young to see them in the bar rooms. Mick went on to co-produce Ian Hunter's fifth solo studio album in 1981, the same year that Guy Stevens died at the age of 38. As Guy once said, "There are only two Phil Spectors in the world. And I'm one of them!"

Sharon W Member Posts: 719	Kyiv Calling Mar 24, 2022 10:03:57 GMT -8 Brian, anni, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Sharon W on Mar 24, 2022 10:03:57 GMT -8 Another old group with a contemporary reference to the Ukraine situation - www.huffpost.com/entry/dave-davies-strangers_n_623ab1ede4b0d39357ce8812

anni Administrator Administrating Designer Posts: 1,608	Kyiv Calling Mar 24, 2022 11:31:03 GMT -8 Brian, Jeanne, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by anni on Mar 24, 2022 11:31:03 GMT -8 Just so it's handy:

anni Administrator Administrating Designer Posts: 1,608	Kyiv Calling Mar 27, 2022 14:41:29 GMT -8 Brian and Sharon W like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by anni on Mar 27, 2022 14:41:29 GMT -8 I also love this version: