Muse – THE UPRISING – Song writer: Matthew Bellamy

Bellamy, who sings and plays great acoustic and electric guitar, is also a gifted pianist steeped in classical music. You can hear classical influences in the long stretches he quotes from Chopin on this album and in frequent quasi- Baroque interludes.  Youtube also has clips of Bellamy playing Rachmaninoff and Liszt on the piano, as well as  a Villa-Lobos etude for the guitar and Tarrega’s beautiful Recuerdos de la Alhambra

The political positions Bellamy takes are just as interesting as his art. Perhaps, he’s come to them from the experience of having an uncle murdered by the IRA.  Bellamy considers 9-11 a false-flag operation, thinks the call for war with Iran “takes things to a Nazi level”, and refers to the CIA mind-control operation MK Ultra on the same album as Uprising.

A remarkable and brave young artist, first, to bring these notions into popular music, and then, to stand firmly behind  his political convictions in public interviews.

(Bellamy says Uprising was inspired by the G20 protests in London in 2008)

Paranoia is in bloom,
The PR transmissions will resume,
They”ll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down,
And hope that we will never see the truth around
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