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More On Dance - This Time "They Dance Alone"
 | | Sting - They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo) |
Another reader writes to tell us more on the topic of dancing.
But, this time on a more serious note, she includes a copy of Sting's "Cueca Solo" (They Dance Alone)
First published on his 1987 album Nothing Like The Sun it refers to mourning Chilean women who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands.
Sting explained his song as a symbolic gesture of protest against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet whose regime killed thousands of people between 1973 and 1990.
On the album Sting was accompanied by Mark Knopfler (guitar) and Ruben Blades (background vocals and guitar).
There are several live versions of this song, most notable from the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute (1988), from an Amnesty International concert (1988) in Buenos Aires with Peter Gabriel
and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo from Chile. Artists performing included Sting, Jackson Browne, Wynton Marsalis, Sinéad O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, and New Kids on the Block.
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