{"id":976044,"date":"2020-04-01T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T12:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=976349"},"modified":"2020-04-01T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T12:47:37","slug":"hear-roger-waters-cover-of-victor-jaras-protest-anthem-the-right-to-live-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-roger-waters-cover-of-victor-jaras-protest-anthem-the-right-to-live-in-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Roger Waters\u2019 Cover of Victor Jara\u2019s Protest Anthem \u2018The Right to Live in Peace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rw.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/roger-waters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roger-waters\" data-tag=\"roger-waters\">Roger Waters<\/a> has shared his rendition of Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara\u2019s protest song \u201cThe Right to Live in Peace,\u201d the 1971 folk song that became the anthem of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019%E2%80%9320_Chilean_protests\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2019 Chilean protests<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis is for the people of Santiago &amp; Quito &amp; Jaffa &amp; Rio &amp; La Paz &amp; New York &amp; Baghdad &amp; Budapest and everywhere else the man means us harm,\u201d Waters said of his re-recording, which features updated lyrics addressing the recent surge of autocrats around the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFrom my cell in New York City\/ I can hear the casarolazos\/I can smell you Pinero\/All fucking rats smell the same,\u201d Waters snarls on his version. \u201cYou can shoot out the eyes of the children\/You were always that fucking insane\/But you\u2019ll never snuff out the flame.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jara, an activist and poet, was tortured and killed after the dictator Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile in 1973. \u201cSo beware Bolsonaro, Giuido and Modi and Trump,\u201d Waters warns on his \u201cThe Right to Live in Peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Waters recently used social media to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerwaters\/status\/1244488940998078465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">send well wishes<\/a> to John Prine, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-prine-covid-19-symptoms-974909\/\">hospitalized<\/a> after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. The COVID-19 pandemic also forced Waters to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/roger-waters-tour-postpone-coronavirus-974330\/\">postpone<\/a> his planned This Is Not a Drill Tour until 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/roger-waters-victor-jara-the-right-to-live-in-peace-976349\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Waters has shared his rendition of Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara\u2019s protest song \u201cThe Right to Live in Peace,\u201d the 1971 folk song that became the anthem of the 2019 Chilean protests. \u201cThis is for the people of Santiago &amp; Quito &amp; Jaffa &amp; Rio &amp; La Paz &amp; New York &amp; Baghdad &amp; Budapest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-976044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 09:55:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}