delicious legacy: Carlos Tena and Àngel Casas interviewing Bob Marley for ‘Popgrama’ (TVE) IbizaIn the summer of 1978, When ‘Is this love’ wreaks havoc. They sincerely attack him after seeing him get off the DC-9 from Iberia, touching his hat from Dogon country. They then accompany him to the entrance of the arena where he will give his first concert in Spain (which is not unique, as it is sometimes said, as he sang in Barcelona and Madrid two years later) and finally sit down with him. .on the steps of a portal.
Almost nothing bears some resemblance to the current “modus operandi”: rough access to the airport runway, no apparent filter between the artist and the press, the pop star with no memorized promotional speech, at first vaguely expressing himself sleepy (“Rastafari”, “positive” ) and then going out into the garden to sympathize with Haile Selassie, the last Ethiopian emperor. The couple questions him about the assassination attempt a few years ago, and Marley rejects Demir, saying it wasn’t on his mind. Dialogue caught instantly, with flawed, linguistic hesitations (A translator helps them in a few minutes), but with believably lively, a little distracted by the audiovisual codes to come.
Carlos Tena was one of the inventors of pop music journalism and therefore had to endure the rigors of paving the way, but enjoyed it all. Pristine playground to expand and enjoy. Looking at his sense of humor and healthy hooliganism, everything shows that he had a good time in those years when famous artists were not caught in the clouds of assistants and press members and were able to provide interviews. through an international concert tour, a very rare practice nowadays.
The Eivissa bullfighting is no more (though instead there is the lovely Bob Marley Jardins that evokes that evening), and both Àngel Casas and Carlos Tena have passed away. Also, Moncho Alpuente, José María Íñigo and Constantino Romero. Artists have lost their innocence by learning not to trust the media and not need it as much as they used to. And music journalists struggle between ‘influencers’, ‘tiktokers’ and creators’ direct dialogue with their followers without intermediaries. It’s another world, but it’s up to us The path followed by pioneers like Tena will enter the list of popular professions of the future..