Today is devoted to the sad event.



I found this story on the internet for a long time, but unfortunately I couldn’t.

find her again.



So, the distant Soviet times, the 70s, the young Muslim Magomayev in

Flower of fame.



Several days in a row he participated in concerts (whether it was a contest,

Or something more long? And his repertoire includes the song "Lila".

The song in Russian, there "Daughter was born to the charming good Carlo,

The happy father did not know how to name the child. Actually

The original source is the song of Tom Jones, and it is not about Carlo,

and other nonsense, and about unfortunate love that ended with a knife.



This was the reason for one of the jealousy to speak in the style "Easy

To steal someone else’s song, it can all". It must be understood that in

The Soviet Union sing the original song in English.

more with such ideologically alien content, - no, to

This was absolutely impossible! Obviously, from the original

Only the melody and a piece of name remained, and the words were replaced.

The innocent nonsense.



Well so here. The words of the jealous received publicity and quickly reached to

of Mahoma. The next day the master came out on stage, as usual.

In a white suit, he sat behind the piano, the same chords sounded... but the words...

The frozen audience heard, as in the beautiful English language of Magomayev,

It came to all the jealous, sang a hostile, ideologically alien original.

Proving that he is not only afraid of such accusations, but also of himself.

The Soviet power.



It took a lot of courage to answer that.