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more than to assuage the pain of a single person’s unhappy past.”
6
Ibid, 9.
7
Before the release of the album, parts of “Here Lies Love” were performed at
the Royal Adelaide Showground (March 2006) and in Carnegie Hall, New York
(March 2007). The rock musical “Evita” has been staged several times in theater
productions and has been adapted into a film starring Madonna in 1996.
8
There is a long list of albums and theater productions that qualify as rock opera,
such as “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Some popular rock opera albums include The
Who’s “Tommy,” David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the
Spiders from Mars,” and Green Day’s “American Idiot.”
9
Byrne, Interview “On the Imelda Marcos Inspired New Album,” in Clash Music,
accessed March 28, 2011, http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/david-byrneinterview, published May 6, 2010.
10
For links to reviews of “Here Lies Love,” see http://www.davidbyrne.com/here_
lies_love/press/index.php.
11
All lyrics cited are from the official website of the album. See “Here Lies Love:
Lyrics,” http://www.davidbyrne.com/here_lies_love/lyrics.php.
12
Solano Avenue was where Imelda lived in a garage with her brother, mother, and
Estrella. See Pedrosa, 71-82.
13
See Kate McGeown, “An audience with the one and only Imelda Marcos,” http://
news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8708324.
stm, accessed 28 March 2011.
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