‘Long Live Life’ by Coldplay
“That was when I ruled the world.” No Catalan can hear this song without the images of the sextet immediately coming to mind. Pep Guardiola he repeatedly put her in the locker room and on the bus until she asked to be punctured by the Camp Nou public address system in the round of 16 of the Champions League. Things went well and since then Chris Martin’s voice has accompanied a season in which Barça was king of the world. The following year, the ‘Human‘dels Killers was the league’s official 99-point soundtrack.
‘Cup, League and Champions’, ‘Crackovia’
Guardiola’s other ‘superhit’ in his first year was the prophetic song on TV-3’s Barça comedy show. What many may not know is that the composers of that song were the Oscars, Andreu and Dalmau. The latter explained that if they got it right even the order of the titles was because of their ignorance of football. “Surely someone who understands football would not have written it like that, the most logical order was league, cup and Champions, because that year Barça was far above rivals; it seemed clearer that the first title he could win was the league. But the first to fall was the Cup, and the rest is history.
‘Corrandes de la parella stable’, by Manel
Come on, third and final ode to the Guardian era. In 2010, his contract expired and he was constantly receiving requests to renew. Even at concerts. On the day of his birthday he attended Manel’s concert at the Palau de la Música. When ‘Corrandes de la parella stable’ sounded, the group invited some fans to improvise a couple of stanzas. “We just want one thing, for Guardiola to renew,” sang a couple, acclaimed by the band and the whole room. In the end he agreed to extend his contract for one year, the only one that was under the mandate of Sandro Rossell.
‘Botifarra de pagès’, by La Trinca
Before creating the Dream Team, Johan Cruyff In 1974, he put an end to the longest hunger for titles in Barça’s history. For this reason, La Trinca did not hesitate to dedicate a song to him, singing the surname “Cruyff, Cruyff, Cruyff” to the rhythm of a sardana. “Fourteen years of starving, fourteen years of starving, maybe it’s been a long time, fourteen years without a league,” they chanted before recalling the 0-5 at the Bernabeu. »). The symbolic “farmer’s sausage” was not only the great rival, but a Franco regime that, after the dictator’s death that season, also smelled of death.
‘This year, yes’, by Dream Team
Six years of drought is well worth a rap. In 1991, after winning the first League of the Cruyffista dynasty, six of the members set out to sing, literally, victory. Under the stage name ‘Dream Team’, Alexanco, José Mari Bakero, Txiki Begiristain, Eusebio, Ronald Koeman and Michael Laudrup they sang ‘This Year Yes’. They followed in the footsteps of the ‘Anfield rap’ of Liverpool players, who had reached number 3 on the British singles chart. The Barça version did not reach that high and it certainly would not have had the vote of the jury of the Benidorm Fest, but it won the vote of the Catalan public. As had happened with ‘Azul y grana’, the song that was recorded by the Barcelona staff in 1974.
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‘Kubala’, by Joan Manuel Serrat
In addition to immortalizing him and his team-mates at Barça in the Five Cups (“Basra, Caesar, Kubala, Moreno and Manchon”) in ‘Temps era temps’, the Poble-sec boy dedicate an ode that neither that of Rafael Alberti to Platko. “Pelé was Pelé, and Maradona was enough, Di Stéfano was a well of mischief, honor and glory for those who have made the sun shine in our everyday football. Everyone has their merits, their own, but for me no one like Kubala “glossed the singer-songwriter of that Hungarian genius who” stops her with his head, lowers him with his chest, puts him to sleep with his left handed…’.
‘A match day’
“One day of the match, I went to the Camp Nou. Just getting into the stands, I fell in love. My heart was pounding, don’t ask me why, I’m a ‘supporter’ of Barça, I’ll always encourage you … ». One of the most famous songs at the Camp Nou is an adaptation of the song ‘L’estate sta finendo’ by the Italian group Righeira. The animation stage of the Camp Nou covered this song following in the footsteps of what the fans of Naples had done years later.
‘Endavant Barça’, by Rudy Ventura
Among the usual chants at the Camp Nou celebrations is the “lolololo” version of ‘The Prison of the King of France’, the most famous song by the Dharma Electric Company and which the band had performed on several occasions at the Camp Nou. An instrumental version acclaimed as it was in its time the trumpet of Rudy Ventura, who for many years sounded not only in the Barça temple, but also on trips such as the final of the Basel Cup in 1979 or the first World Cup. Europe, at Wembley-1992. ‘Endavant Barça’ is one of the many songs he composed at the club of his love.
‘El cant del Barça’, by Josep Maria Espinàs and Jaume Picas
In 1974, the then president Agustí Montal he commissioned Josep Maria Espinàs a hymn on the occasion of the club’s 75th anniversary. The writer and founder of the New Song Sixteen Judges group wrote “a song, not a hymn, because a song is usually popular, something affirmative and never in war terms.” In half an hour he already had the text, which he later relied on James Spades and the music of Manuel Valls. The historic columnist for EL PERIÓDICO never received royalties for ‘Cant del Barça’, which «represents a great club, Barcelona and Catalonia all over the world »
‘Miquel a access 14’, by Mishima
Returning to Montal, the Barça president counted on the signing of Cruyff with the decisive contribution ofArmand Carabén, the Barça manager. “My father was married to a Dutch woman and they quickly got along,” says David Carabén, a cradle player who played with Jordi Cruyff before the gaze of the Dutch genius. As an adult, Jordi devoted himself to football and David to music, creating Mishima. In his songs, always full of references, he could not miss a nod to Johan and Barça like ‘Miquel a d’accés 14’.
‘Iturralde González’, d’Estúpida Erikah
To end the list, there is nothing better than this song with the title of referee and which tells the love story of two Catalans who have acclaimed Kubala, Migueli, Xavi and Iniesta to end up saying that “the best thing about Barça is to be by your side ‘».
