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"She was a somewhat unusual grandmother, but over time we got used to it. In Madrid's Movida, everything went very fast."

Pol Morollon's memories are woven between concert nights

. Long before Ángeles Rodríguez became fond of going with him to the live performances of Leño, Obús, Barón Rojo or AC/DC -his grandson says that in one of them he lost hearing in one ear because he was too close to the speakers-, what really threw him was the couplet.

The roots of Ángeles are located in Argentina, but it was in Seville where they took root, after arriving in Spain before completing their first year of life. As an adult, her youth was austere and simple, marked by the determination to raise her five children after being widowed. Her

work as an assistant serving in various houses in the Salamanca district

was later followed by her employment at the Post Office. "It was around this time that he fell down the stairs and had breaks everywhere," recalls his grandson. "I took care of her and made me help her walk down five floors in plaster to buy music records."

On a sleepless night glued to the transistor, while moving from station to station, Ángeles came across the program

La radio de las sábanas blanca

, on Radio 5, of which she was later a collaborator.

"It was very shocking that a lady over 70 years old would call the radio to be interested in rock," admits Pol. Fame came to him just then,

when accompanying his grandson to rock concerts went from exception to custom

.

To several appearances in television programs was added a section in

Heavy Rock

magazine and even a cover of a Panzer album.

Ángeles Rodríguez in two images from her family album.

In Álvarez del Manzano's time,

a statue was dedicated to him

on Peña Gorbea street, when he was already collaborating with Radio Vallecas. Esturión, Ñu, Asfalto and other groups raised funds to pay for it during a concert at the Sala Chanciller. The Madrid Rock store and musical photographer Mario Scasso, a friend of Ángeles, also contributed their contributions. "I also lived in the area and it shocked me a lot to go to the boulevard where we spent the afternoons having a beer and see the statue of my grandmother there," Pol continues.

Although it has been vandalized more than once, like when two of his fingers were mutilated, the bronze statue that his grandson talks about is still standing, just as Pol also remembers his grandmother, standing in the front row of some concert or

celebrating the promotion to first class with his Rayo scarf around his neck

.

"That is the lesson that has remained with us: his desire to live despite his age and multiple illnesses and obstacles. If he had been caught by this pandemic, my grandmother would have eaten it for him."

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