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Belsen Was a Gas - Wikipedia"Belsen Was a Gas" is a highly controversial song by the Britishpunk rock band the Sex Pistols. The song is about one of the Nazi concentration camps in Nazi Germany, Bergen- Belsen, which was liberated by British troops in 1. Controversy[edit]Composer[edit]ASCAP credits the songwriters as John Beverly (Sid Vicious), Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon but Sid Vicious is often credited with having written the song while in his earlier band the Flowers of Romance, as a sheet of handwritten lyrics purported to be in his hand appears in Jon Savage's book England's Dreaming. He is supposed to have written it as a joke; in an interview he claimed that when writing the song he was trying to be ironic.[citation needed] Its title is a pun on the Zyklon B gas used in many camps; "Belsen was a Gas", "a gas" being 1. In fact, there were no gas chambers at Bergen- Belsen, as it was not one of the extermination camps; most of the around 3. The darkly humorous lyrics were designed to offend that generation then in charge of running the country who had grown up during World War II, and for whom the Holocaust was an extremely sensitive subject, with the Belsen concentration camp holding a particular place of horror in the older British generation's psyche because of Nazi propaganda films, which had portrayed the camp in the early stages of the Nazi regime (particularly for the foreign press) as being a well- run camp for Jewish families trying to emigrate from Nazi Germany (something seized upon by Nazi apologists within the UK such as Oswald Mosley).

The song was another attempt by the group to outrage that generation they believed were responsible for many of the ills within Britain at that time by writing about highly sensitive or controversial subject matter. Sid Vicious often wore a swastika shirt for the shock value, and in keeping with the musical Cabaret's style of dress for members of the Kit- Kat Club adopted by members of the Bromley Contingent.

Cabaret was popular among the early punk rock movement, because many saw similarities in the decline and degeneracy of 1. Britain to the last chaotic years of the Weimar Republic that this musical was set in. John Lydon would later indicate that he felt with this song, the group's shock tactics crossed the line into gratuitous bad taste. In an interview conducted for Q magazine in 1. He also took the opportunity to claim responsibility for the lyrics. Many of these describe a grotesque, sarcastic version of what occurred.

"Belsen Was a Gas" is a highly controversial song by the British punk rock band the Sex Pistols. The song is about one of the Nazi concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

The opening lines are: Belsen was a gas, I heard the other day. In the open graves where the Jews all lay"Life is fun and I wish you were here"They wrote on postcards to those held dear. The song appears in two versions on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle album, first a live version from the Sex Pistols' last concert (San Francisco, 1.

January 1. 97. 8), then in an altered studio version with Ronnie Biggs on vocals. Biggs insisted on altering the lyrics – he later claimed as he had read the published diary of Anne Frank, Belsen's most famous victim – with an additional verse. The second verse describes some of the treatment Jews received: Dentists searched their teeth for gold.

Frisk the Jews for banknotes fold. When they found out what they'd got,"Line them up and shoot the lot". For whatever reason, the version with Biggs is also altered in its musical composition.

In the original version done with Rotten, the main theme is a power chord riff that goes D, C, D, E♭ (plays with "Belsen was a gas, I heard the other day"). When rerecorded for the Biggs version, that theme is drastically altered to D, C, B♭, C, a much more conventional progression. The Boondocks Season 2 Episode 1 Online.

Thus, the tension of the original version (from the use of an E♭ chord in a song based in D) is quite deflated. Watch Greetings Dailymotion on this page. The Biggs remake also ends with a saxophone solo, the first on a Pistols record. The original, on the other hand, ends with Johnny Rotten haranguing the listener to "Be a man / Kill a man / Be someone / Kill someone / Be a man / Kill yourself!" as the music abruptly stops.

There is a brief, shocked hush before the audience applauds. Of this version of the song, Lester Bangs wrote, "It's one of the most frightening things I've ever heard. You wonder exactly what you might be affirming by listening to this over and over again. On one level Johnny Rotten/Lydon is an insect buzzing atop the massed ruins of a civilization leveled by itself, which I suppose justifies him right there, on another level he's just another trafficker in cheap nihilism with all that it includes—cheap racism, sexism, etc.

I'm still not comfortable with 'Bodies.' But then I never was, which may be the point. But then I wonder if he is. After which I cease to wonder at anything beyond the power of this music."[3]Both versions of the song are credited to Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious as composers (even though the lyrics for the second version were rewritten by Ronnie Biggs). On most versions of the album, the live version is listed in Gothic script as "Einmal Belsen war vortrefflich" and Biggs' version is "Einmal Belsen war wirklich vortrefflich"; these grammatically erroneous German titles[4] translate more or less as "Once, Belsen was brilliant" and "Once, Belsen was really brilliant". The first UK sleeve gave the titles as "Belsen Was a Gas" and "Belsen Vos a Gassa".

The 2. 00. 2 Sex Pistols box set includes another live version of "Belsen Was a Gas" on disc 3. This version was recorded on January 1.

Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas, Texas. Other versions[edit]Public Image Ltd performed the song in concert from 1. Public Image: First Issue. At the King's Hall in Manchester in 1. Lydon introduces the song as 'the next one is sarcasm, in case you get it wrong'.[5] On a recording of the December 1. Watch The Shelter Full Movie on this page. Rainbow Theatre concert he responds to crowd complaints by saying 'if you make as much fuss about the next fucking bus you've got to wait for, you might be better off, know what I mean?'[6]The song was played by Sex Pistols at the Crystal Palace Silver Jubilee show in 2.

When Sex Pistols reformed for a reunion tour of the U. S. in 2. 00. 3, after the start of the Iraq War, they performed an adapted version of the song, called "Baghdad Was a Blast", as an attack on President George W. Bush's policies in the region. At the first of the band's Brixton Academy shows in November 2.

Brixton Was a Blast". The second version with Ronnie Biggs was originally slated to be a single, but after the airplay and record shop ban on the earlier single, "No One Is Innocent" (due to Biggs being the lead vocalist), this idea was dropped. Sid Vicious, the composer of the song, performed and released a version on his only solo album, Sid Sings. Following the best- known official version by the Sex Pistols, Vicious's is yet again a live recording, introduced on the album as "[written] by Sid Vicious!". Cover versions of the song have been performed and recorded live and in studio by numerous bands, including British punk group the Exploited who played theirs as early as 1. Chaos UK also covered the song. The demo version[edit]The lost demo version of the song was rediscovered during a recent move from Virgin Records to Universal Music Catalogue.

It was included in a Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols box set that was released on 2. September 2. 01. 2. This demo version features very faint, reverbed vocals.

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