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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Mar 7, 2017 8:49:16 GMT
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Post by snakelady on Mar 7, 2017 13:38:32 GMT
So he's found a way to talk about losing Rick without giving too much away about his feelings when confronted with the sad fact by media .. I've always thought that it sounds familiar when Francis was singing that Italian song from his childhood. Took me till today though to realise that I actually know it and that I used to love it as a child as well (Inna will surely recognise it too ). So I've searched whether there's indeed an Italian version - and there is : Francis seems to not remember the lyrics quite right though - no surprise as he had completely forgotten his Italian.
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Post by gogs on Mar 7, 2017 14:20:59 GMT
The English version (papa piccolino) was a hit in the early 50s for someone called Diana Decker. It briefly resurfaced in the 80s on kids TV when it was done by a comedy (???) duo called the Krankies. May my soul not rot too much for knowing this. . It's interesting how Francis kind of deflects the question about how Rick's death affected him and the band, by giving factual and anecdotal rather than emotional answers. Grief and loss are very personal emotions, everyone deals differently with them and there is no stock response.
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Post by snakelady on Mar 8, 2017 8:23:30 GMT
Funny how the papera piccolina - the little gosling - became a little papa in English. In the German version it's a duckling and it's not a poppy it wants to get closer to but sweet fruit up on the trees, which it can't reach. Guess Francis has realised that Rick's death is a topic that will inevitably come up in interviews time and again, so he had to find phrases for himself that are honest, but avoid getting too emotional. This way, as you say, he describes the impact but hasn't to mention his feelings. When his mum died he publicly coped with it by joking about it 'I haven't lost her - she's in that box over there', which helped him to not show emotions. I can relate to his attitude. Feelings are something very private, something you don't necessarily want to share with the public.
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