11 June 2007

GRANT MCLENNAN (1958-2006)



A (auto)biografia está toda nas vinte e cinco linhas de "Cattle And Cane", de Before Hollywood (1983), o segundo álbum dos Go-Betweens. Começa com "I recall a schoolboy coming home through fields of cane, to a house of tin and timber and, in the sky, a rain of falling cinders". Depois, surge "a boy in bigger pants, like everyone just waiting for a chance, his father's watch he left it in the shower". No final, "a bigger brighter world, a world of books and silent times in thought, and then the railroad, the railroad takes him home, through fields of cattle, through fields of cane". E sempre "the waste, memory wastes - further, longer, higher, older". Grant McLennan, com Robert Forster, era metade dos Go-Betweens, a banda que, nos anos 80, com os Triffids e Nick Cave, deu notícias de uma pop superiormente poética e letrada na Austrália. Gostava de Cormac McCarthy, Raymond Carver, Dylan e Springsteen. Morreu, enquanto dormia, no passado sábado, em Brisbane. Num dos enormes álbuns do século passado — Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express (1985) —, escreveu uma das mais belas estrofes da poesia pop: "When the rain hit the roof, with the sound of a finished kiss, like a lip lifted from a lip, I took the wrong road down". A memória não se esvai mas dói. (Maio de 2006)

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