By the rivers of Moses
Published:
January 11, 2011 at 2:42pm
Din bhal Rivers of Babylon ta’ Boney M, tghid?
A comment posted beneath an article by Berta Sullivan on timesofmalta.com, on 7 January:
Dear Berta———-In the 70’s——–It was labour govenments who started building rivers osmoses plants to cope with the shortage of water problem——
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Ma, tal-biza. Mela – first, second, third u rivers!
I remember that when Mintoff completed his brilliant (!) engineering project in front of the Msida church, and the road was flooded with seawater, one of the newspapers, most probably In-Nazzjon, carried this headline: ‘Qabel kellna ir-Reverse Osmosis u issa ghandna ir-Reverse of Moses’. Moses had made a road through the sea while Mintoff brought the sea over the road.
By the Rivers of Babylon,
Where we sat down
Ye-eah, we wept,
When we remembered Labour…
U le, don’t ruin it! Here’s the proper one –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1g8FFRArc
More 1970s fun – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxlCsVKkvY&feature=related
anzi mhux “Rivers of Moses” – a cleaner who worked within the company I worked for used to say that …..
Bobby Farrell, God rest his soul, who was the the leader of Boney M, passed away last week, poor guy. He was only 61 and so fit. They sold millions with Rivers of Babylon, imma mur ghidlu kemm kien ibiegh iktar hawn Malta kieku bidel l-isem ghal-Rivers of Moses. Ghax hafna iktar isem familiari ghalina. Ehh Rita?
While on the subject of music, perhaps we can console ourselves with our pair of Maltese Elvises.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12129070
There are only two possibilities. This chap was either nowhere near Malta in the seventies or else he is amnesic. His problem.
Whether it is the former or the latter he will still vote PL. My problem.
Daphne, can you please tell me when “Taste” magazine will be out? If you can give me all the dates for this year, it will be very much appreciated.
Thanks and wish you all the best for this year.
[Daphne – The next one is out on 6 February. Thank you for your interest.]
Note taken. Thanks
@Ciccio2011
Il Bambin baghtek illejla, bil-pair of Maltese Elvises. Kemm qeghdin sew. Jiehdu b`idejn xulxien ta ukoll. Malta qed tipproduci talenti kbar, dak li naf nghid. U min ghandhu l-ghali……
I always thought Freddie Portelli was Elvis ta’ Malta.
Wasn’t it Mintoff who in the 70s had proclaimed that reverse osmosis plants were not suitable as the water they produced would be as expensive as whisky?
Single malt out of the kitchen tap! Dream on. Is it time for a tot?
Ah, the glorious 70s! I used to keep a kit-bag with towel/soap/shampoo etc. and every evening, I would ‘phone round family and friends to see where I was going to shower, especially when the Union Club – my proxy bathroom – was closed.
Thank goodness we had 70s music to mitigate Socialism.
I started working in 1977 with a tour operator and I remember us buying mineral water (when we managed to find it) and at a very expensive price to give to clients in a couple of particular hotels in Sliema, so that they were able to bathe, because in Sliema we used to have water cuts practically every day.