That Andrea Doria stamp is interesting.
I just looked it up, and while it originated, of course, from the disaster of the sinking of that ship, the real reason for the stamp was in reference to the music of German rock musician Udo Lindenberg who wrote a song
"All Clear on the Andrea Doria". I can't say that I've ever heard of it (the song, that is):
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Stamps in honor of German rock musician Udo Lindenberg
German Post has issued a series of stamps in honor of the famous German musician Udo Lindenberg and his two songs "Andrea Doria" and "Special train to Pankow".
Udo Lindenberg was born in 1946 in Westphalia, Gronau. Lindenberg writes German rock music texts and in 1959 he assembles his first band.
In the first year of his international breakthrough with the single "All clear on the Andrea Doria" Lindenberg creates parallels to life on a sinking luxury liner. The Italian liner Andrea Doria, pride of the Italian cruise fleet, sank on 26 July 1956 after a collision.
In the song "Special train to Pankow", which spontaneously becomes a hit, Lindenberg dreams of an open inter-German border.
Udo Lindenberg's youth slang communicates the feeling of his time, his songs are always provocative, they reflect social and political issues.
Posted 05/02/2011 11:49 pm
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