Thinking of an album that hasn't yet been reviewed on DeBaser, "Trafalgar" (1971) by the Bee Gees came to mind.
My father introduced it to me a few years ago, and I fell in love with it almost immediately. In Italy, it had moderate success, climbing the sales charts to the top positions. Beware, do not expect disco music like "Saturday Night Fever" (which would only come out in 1977), "Trafalgar" is light music in its purest form. The melodies crafted by the three Gibb brothers (supported by Alan Kendall on lead guitar and Joeff Bridgford on drums) never miss the mark. The piano and orchestrations are inclined to bring forth tears in abundance, also thanks to the atmosphere dense with pathos that permeates the album.
The album is entirely dedicated to the English admiral Horatio Nelson and the 1805 victory he achieved in the Battle of Trafalgar against Napoleon. Remaining indifferent to the 12 songs of this LP is a difficult, if not impossible, task. However, it's unlikely to appeal to the most dedicated fans of hard rock and heavy metal. Nothing innovative or astonishing, simply stunning.
It's night. I lay on my bed and play "Trafalgar." The darkness and the music outside and inside me. I begin to think, I have no precise goal, meanwhile rivers of melodies dig deeper. Looking back, I can no longer see the light, a smile escapes and I with it. I would like to start over from scratch, but now I am light-years ahead. In the air, heartrending voices that exalt memory. I cry, and I've never felt so good. This is "Trafalgar."
Tracklist:
1. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
2. Israel
3. The Greatest Man In The World
4. It's Just The Way
5. Remembering
6. Somebody Stop The Music
7. Trafalgar
8. Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself
9. When Do I
10. Dearest
11. Lion In Winter
12. Walking Back To Waterloo
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (03:59)
I can think of younger days
When living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do
I could never see tomorrow
But I was never told about the sorrow
And...
How can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop, the sun from shining?
What makes the world go 'round?
How can you mend, this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart
And let me live again
La-la la-la-la
I can still feel the breeze
That rustles through the trees
And misty memories of days gone by
We could never see tomorrow
No one said a word about the sorrow
And... how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop, the sun from shining?
What makes the world go 'round?
And how can you mend, this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend, my broken heart
And let me live again
Da da da-da la-la, la-la-d-da...
La-la la-la la-da-la
Please help me mend my broken heart
And let me live again
La-d-da-da
De-da-de-da, d-da d-da de-da...
07 Trafalgar (03:55)
I rolled into the smoke and there I lost my hope
I need someone to know me and to show me
The square peg fits the hole
Why haven't I been told?
I need someone to know me and to show me
Trafalgar, trafalgar, trafalgar, please don't let me down
Ten hundred people roam through the place I call me home
I need someone to know me and to show me
Sitting cross-legged on my own and yet I'm not alone
Don't need no one to show me
No one owns me
Trafalgar, trafalgar, trafalgar
Trafalgar, trafalgar, trafalgar, please don't let me down
Trafalgar (repeat line and fade out)
10 Dearest (03:54)
I hear you calling me 'dearest' too .
My dearest, I'm nearest, then I've ever been before
to have you calling me 'dearest' once more.
My dearest, this picture, my own memory.
Wishing this picture was reality.
Where do I go from here? The Lord took you away.
And if you could see my today, I will remember you .
I will remember you
My dearest, sincerest, there's no one but you and
here in my heart you're my dearest too.
Where do I go from here? The Lord took you away.
And if you could see me today, I will remember you.
I will remember you .
My dearest, sincerest, there's no one but you and
here in my heart you're my dearest too.
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