This is for my sister (CJ7) who is interested in the story of the WWI Christmas_truce. This is the 100th anniversary of the event. This video is the promotional film for Paul McCartney's song, Pipes of Peace. The video is an interpretation of the famous WWI Christmas truce.
Addendum: The bookend video to the above is McCartney's Tug of War. It actually was released before "Pipes of Peace."
Tug of War is one of my favorite McCartney songs and I love the promo/video clip. I love that it's Paul with Linda. I love the bits from Things to Come and the old B&W tug of war clips. The lyrics also appeal to me (although they are not excellently written). There is a spirit of melancholy that life turned out to be more pushing and pulling than expected but there is hope that sometime in the future things will be better.
And so, "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace" are great bookends of a hope for a better world.
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Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ErrZ-ipoE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipes_of_Peace_(song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_War_(Paul_McCartney_song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIfPIfuTFXA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war
Written Thursday December 25, 2014 (Christmas).
Updated Thursday January 1, 2015 (New Year) for "Tug of War."
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