Month: October 2013

Yet more English-language covers by Spanish bands

Following on the previous instalment, Lenox has sent over this list, knowing full well that the phonology will mean nothing to me, for: «Si tú quisieras, Bacc[á]ra,contigo me casaría;daréte en arras y dotea Córdoba y a Sevilla.»«Casada soy, rey Trebots,casada soy, que no viuda;el Lenox que a mí me tienemuy grande bien me quería.»(Abenámar y…

Begad! a dago version of Flashman voices it as if it were BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama! With 100 Spanish synonyms for “prostitute” and much other useful information.

Flashman, the first instalment in George MacDonald Fraser’s glorious reinvention of Harry Paget Flashman, the baddy in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, was first published in 1969. Ten out of the first 34 US reviewers, including minor academics, swallowed GMF’s “editorial” pitch and dealt with it as if it were a genuine memoir; without the series it…