“People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy – nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley – I was the Elvis of boxing.”
Muhammed Ali har fødselsdag i dag. Uden hans ekstremt uhm…selvsikre og mesterboksende tilstedeværelse havde TV-alderen været ikke så lidt kedeligere at gå igennem. Tror vi må være en del, der husker Rumble In The Jungle-dysten i Zaire, den mod George Foreman, som et absolut 70’er-sports-melodrama, helt på suspensehøjde med fodbold-VM-finalerne i München og Buenos Aires, samt Liverpool’s første Champions League-triumf, mod Allan Simonsens Borussia Mönchengladbach i 1977. Tillykke med dagen, Champ!
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In Zaire:
Once there was a battle there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire)
Hundred thousand people there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire)
All those people gathered there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire
To see the rumble in the jungle there – (Chor: The-e-ere – in Zaire!)
Came a man called Elijan (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire)
With him came the superstar (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire)
All those people came from far (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire)
To see the rumble in the jungle there – (Chor: The-e-ere – in Zaire!)
And who was the victor in the night?
Elijah Mohammed’s boy Ali won the fight! (Chor: -igh-igh-ight!)
All those people chanted there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire)
Seven rounds of torture there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire)
One more round and Ali’s there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire)
There was great excitement everywhere – (Chor: Whe-e-ere – in Zaire!)
The lightning struck twice in the night,
First in the ring and then after the fight! (Chor: -igh-igh-ight!)
(Chor) In Zaire, in Zaire – in Zaire, in Zaire – …..
(Johnny Wakelin)
Apropos Elvis. Tjek da denne side fra The National Security Achive:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/elvis/elnix.html