First he sang Melancholy Street with messages to Madrid and then said: “This tour that began as ‘Hello and Goodbye’ It’s just called goodbye. I have slipped into the memory of several generations. Without you, my songs would not exist.”
The Movistar Arena, packed to the last beam, said goodbye to a Joaquin Sabina with a bowler hat who has lived to sing it. And whose hoarse voice the people tried to silence almost incessant applauseoverwhelming.
In the pit, all your friendsAna Belén, Víctor Manuel, Benjamín Prado, David Trueba… And in the stands, thousands of devotees, pilgrims of their themes, of their poetry harvested over more than 40 years of stages, whiskeys, cigars, falls and resurrections.
Sabina did not deny anything, not even the truth, on her farewell night, a page in history as well as music. The teacher sang as they passed behind the photos of his lifeof other Joaquins younger, more rebellious, more down-to-earth, healthier than the one now, but no more artists.
Sabina no longer sings almost standing up. Sitting on his throne, on your sidewalkhe doesn’t need to do it because the public is already standing, the other soul of Joaquín Sabina. “Now that I have a soul that I didn’t have,” thundered the audience with him.
“Es very exciting and moving that so many friends have come. This concert in Madrid is the last of my life. Is the most important“, he said in his interventions.
And he began to search in the trunk of rusty songslike the second one he wrote more than 40 years ago.
Saying that he sang his best-known songs is like saying that he sang his entire repertoire. 19 days and 500 nights It was not he who sang it, but 12,000 souls with very long tongues and very short skirts.
A Sabina who competed on stage with photos of another more lustrous man with dense hair named the same had moments of emotion. It is clear that no one has stolen the month of November, the month of his musical epitaph.
More than a hundred words, more than a hundred reasons, more than a hundred lies Sabina told and sang. Because it’s worth it.
