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BREGA ON THE “LIVE TO BE A HUNDRED” TOUR It seems to me that I’m lucky
Odlučili smo da odsviramo 50 koncerata i svi se zbilja tome raduju We decided to play 50 concerts and everyone is really looking forward to it
T his man needs no introduction. His life path and musical journey led him from Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme, which is said to have been as popular as Josip Broz Tito at one point, through symphonies, film music, vio- lins and trumpeters, to songs that are obligatory for cel- ebrations in these lands, and even to an Air Serbia plane that bears his name. And despite being known by everyone and having embarked on numerous musical adventures and tried his hand in different genres, Goran Bregović is perhaps most emotionally attached to his recollections of the start of his career with that famous band from Sarajevo. That’s also why he this year launched the tour “Live to be a hun- dred – 50 years – 50 cities”, back where it all began – at the Sarajevo Youth Centre. He went on to tour the Bal- kans, the world, Europe, across the ocean, wherever his songs are known by everyone. Bijelo Dugme today performs with its original rock line-up, including Zoran Redžić, Dragan ‘Điđi’ Jankelić, Ognjan Radivojević on keyboards and vocalists Mladen ‘Tifa’ Vojičić and Alen Islamović... There’s no Bebek, who “I was given an opportunity to make a fresh start twice in my life. And miracles happened in that second career just as they had in the first,” says Goran Bregović, who named his band Bijelo Dugme on 1 st January 1974
chose not to join the tour, or those who, unfortunately, have long since departed this world. Bregović says that he doesn’t celebrate birthdays, but he was somehow in the mood to commemorate Bijelo Dugme’s 50 th anni- versary. We began our interview, which was wedged be- tween sold-out concerts in Vienna and Copenhagen, by asking him what he first remembers when looking back over these 50 years... “When I look so far back into the past, I always re- member how completely different my life could have looked. I was already in the fourth year of philosophy studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo and was due to start teaching Marxism in secondary school the
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