The best songs of the transition to the Spanish guitar
As expected, the Spanish guitar played a fundamental role in the most prominent songs, the preferred instrument for accompanying all these proclamations. There are many songs that we could highlight, but we have chosen to follow the guitar in the songs of the Transition: - Speak, people speak: the Murcia group Vino Tinto published this song in 1976. The song invited the people to break the silence after so many years and is considered the anthem of the Transition since it was used by the UCD to promote the party in the first democratic elections after the death of the dictator Franco. - Freedom without anger: Jarcha popularized another of the great anthems of the 70s. This famous song is always included in the usual repertoire of music for guitar due to the emotion it provokes when played. - At Dawn: Aute is a must-have on a list of important guitars in the anthems of the Transition. In this song, the singer-songwriter demonstrates his skill playing the Spanish guitar. - Song to Freedom: Guitar and clapping seem to be the official accompaniment to this song by Labordeta who, like many of his fellow professionals of the time, sang of the new state of freedom and called for forgiveness and to embrace the new situation. - For Freedom: Serrat sets music to Miguel Hernández's poem in a song that seems to have been written to fit perfectly with the era. The guitar arrangements and the Catalan's voice do the rest to turn this poem into a true anthem of the moment. Image
