More than a decade after the former Yugoslavia disappeared (taking with it so outrageous to thousands of its citizens) cultural similarities between the fragments that became independent and the memories of several generations are still the proof of the existence of a common past and rooted closer than many would like.

Anyone who knows their careers today (Jadranka Stojakovic singing haikus in Japan, Goran Bregovic appropriating Balkan gypsy repertoire) hallucinate hearing this “what” signed together in the years 80 twentieth century, when Sarajevo was a huge rock music center inflamed.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v = aiNV44PD7Cc]

Following the thread of the article on Jadranka Stojakovic I post in another entry, I hang one of my favorite videos from Bijelo Dugme. Between 1974 and 1989 was her most important rock band of the former Yugoslavia, a fertile country, especially in rock bands.

The video is 1983, when Yugoslavia was already connected to the world, and how. Does anyone remember what was playing in Spain, from where I write, those years?

Certainly, Dugme Bijelo guitarist was Goran Bregovic. Now it is often claimed that it was “the leader”, but I think those are titles a posteriori…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =-ClOhf ITkbQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=BwEtYUYdsU4]