Soccer Diego Armando Maradona dies
Live: last minute on the death of Maradona
Maradona was not just any person
.
He had the heavenly gift of treating the ball very well.
Like nobody ever.
The best player in history has died.
The one who most deserved the 10. No footballer has resonated in popular music with such passion.
Not so well deserved.
Not with so much truth in tow.
"If Jesus stumbled, why shouldn't he?"
Here is a selection of the ten best songs about Diego, in no other order than the sentimental one, which is a good scale for pop.
Although, make no mistake, the best song about Maradona has no music: it is the narration that
Víctor Hugo Morales made
of the goal of the century.
"Thank you, God, for football, for Maradona, for these tears."
Cosmic keg, which planet did you return to?
1. Rodrigo - The hand of God
If there is a hymn by Maradona, this is it.
My friend, if your legs do not dance alone with this quartet to the sound of "olé, olé, olé olé, Diegoo", you are not alive.
Alejandro Romero is the author of the song that Rodrigo immortalized
.
The stanzas came out of nowhere, as if possessed by a superior spirit, as he himself related: "I began to write nonsense words to me: 'In a village he was born, it was God's desire, to grow and survive the humble expression, face adversity with the desire to earn a living at every step ... 'and at that moment I felt my inner voice dictating to me
' in a pasture he forged an immortal left-handed man 'and that's when I realized it had to do with Maradona
".
2. Andrés Calamaro - Maradona
"He is an angel and his wounded wings can be seen, / It is the Bible next to the water heater. / He has a white glove on his foot / On the side of the heart".
Little more to say.
The best Calamaro paid the tribute due to his friend, who participates at the beginning of the song,
thanking her on behalf of his daughters Dalma and Gianinna
.
"A great person, 10", the one to whom Calamaro sent fan faxes from Los Rodríguez's Madrid to Expo Seville, when Diego played for Nervión's.
And that he dreamed of organizing a party for him.
3. The Paranoid Mice - Forever, Diego
They adapted the lyrics (composed with Andrés Calamaro) for the star's retirement.
It's such a catchy song that it's always on the verge of cloying ... but it triumphs, fist raised
.
The ending, deceptive, is the most desperate farewell that can be given to the one who left so much glory behind.
Today you get goose bumps when you hear that howl of melancholy: "Uuuuh, Dieeego" ...
4. Manu Chao - Life Tombola
Like Rodrigo and Calamaro, Manu Chao did not care exactly the
B side
of Maradona's life.
That is why he racked his brain until he found a simple (and accurate) justification for everything, absolutely everything that being Maradona implies: "If I were Maradona, I would live like him."
"If I were Maradona, I would never be wrong."
And above all, "if I were Maradona: lost anywhere" ...
5. Los Piojos - Maradó
It could be a beat poem, if it weren't for the guitars being thrown around your neck
and no longer letting go: "A round revenge on his foot / The whole country with him running goes / His majesty's troops fall / And the north falls of rich Italy / And the Pope walking around cannot be explained / He bites Joao Havelange's tongue / Maradó, Maradó! ".
6. Black Hand - Santa Maradona
Another by Manu Chao, featured on the album
Casa Babylon
(1994) by Mano Negra.
The song touches the genius tangentially
, but nothing less than to invoke him: "Santa Maradona, pray for me!".
And of course, such a claim made her immortal.
7. Fito Páez - And give joy to my heart.
A whole prayer to Diego before the 1990 World Cup.
"I have more proof of divinity on Earth through Maradona than through the Pope,"
Fito said.
This is a hymn.
8. Charly García and Claudio Gabis - Maradona Blues
"I no longer exist without a past, / between darkness and light. / I know that I exist elsewhere, / I already missed the bus, / as in the Maradona blues", sings Charly.
The mythical rocker sneaks a wink: "I've taken care of you."
It is a phrase very similar to the one he said to Claudia, Maradona's wife, when she wanted to get Diego out of a nightlife spree:
"I'll take care of him, calm down, he'll stay with me
.
"
Maradona burst out laughing.
The expectation that you will be cared for by a man who jumped into a pool from a ninth floor, at 16 meters ... Although above any other verse, in the song this one stands out: "An accident is not a sin", of course not .
9. Emilio Campassi - Maradonaè meglio 'e Pelé
The Neapolitan gospel in one sentence.
Better than Pelé [author's note: and better than Messi].
The phrase made such a fortune that the versions multiplied.
To each worse.
10. The Slaves - Videos of Maradona
The national wink.
Granada power pop in the vein of Teenage Fanclub or La Granja.
"He was watching old Maradona videos all night" is a very powerful image.
It portrays in advance what will happen this sad night across the planet.
Man has fallen, but no one will snatch the images of myth from us.
'Bonus tracks'
Los Cafres - Captain Pelusa, Tifosi Napoli- Ho seen Maradona, Sabina - Dieguitos and Mafaldas, and Grandfather's pills - What is God ?.
And, of course, Maradona himself singing 'El Sueño del Pibe', a tango from 1943 composed by Juan Puey and adapted for him in his heyday: "I know that consecration awaits me."
And so much.
At 37 the footballer left us and at 60, the myth.
The pop icon.
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