New Order - "1963"

Escuchando las nuevas deluxe edition de los discos de los 80 de New Order me he encontrado con que "1963" es "This song is about, according to the Substance song book, a theory that JFK was trying to get rid of his wife the day he got shot, and he got the bullet instead of her. "

Y según Wikipedia:

Según wikipedia:

"According to the band's lyricist, Bernard Sumner, the song is about the JFK assassination, which occurred in 1963. In the song, Sumner sings from the point of view of Jackie Kennedy, and theorises that John F. Kennedy (a devout Catholic for whom divorce was unthinkable) paid the mobster Jack Ruby to arrange for a hitman to take out his wife so that he could continue his relationship with actress Marilyn Monroe.[citation needed] It further theorises that Monroe committed suicide when she found out that the hired gun, Lee Harvey Oswald, had hit the wrong target. Oswald was, according to Sumner, then in turn assassinated by Ruby for causing his hitman business to go bust.

Sumner's theory is unlikely to be intended seriously, given that Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, over a year before the assassination took place.

The producer Stephen Hague has referred to the song as "the only song about domestic violence you can dance to"


Menuda sorpresa. Escuchamos las canciones sin saber muy bien de que van y luego pasan estas cosas.

"1963" además, tiene esta curiosa historia: "In 1987, it was supposed to be a single, but Stephen Hague suggested to flip sides and True Faith got released instead. New Order decided to re-release it as a single in 1995."