"Madrid,
years 80, it is time of destruction, this movement was like an awakening, and it
went from a dark Spain into a Spain of colors".
Important
musicians that marked the “Movida Madrileña” were: Nacha Pop, Alaska y los
pegamoides, Los Bólidos, Tos (Los Secretos), Radio Futura, Tequila…
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| Photomontage about some important groups of the mevement |
In 1975
Franco’s dictatorship ends with his death and then started the Transition
Period.
Madrid
before Franco’s death was sad and everything in black and white while after his
dictatodhip there was an explosion of color.
The
years of the “Movida Madrileña” were called Years of Rock and Roll city.
It was
very important the musical influences that came from outside. One of the
persons that introduced enough of this information was Alaska. She brought
information from London and that was fundamental.
In this
movement the free expression and the revolution of the gays that were dispersed
occurred but that fact was important in this movement, producing a great
cultural agitation.
Painters,
musicians, photographers, filmmakers, designers met in various locations as
bars or pubs, to exchange their ideas and culture, normally in the famous
district of Malasaña.
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| District of Malasaña |
The
concert “Homenaje a Canito” (considered as the beginning of “Movida” by many
authors) was done at Complutense University in the school of roads, and it
showed us everything that was happening in the underground culture.
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| Poster of the concert, it shows all the groups that participated in it. |
In 1979
the first municipal elections of democracy occurred. Madrid counted with
Enrique Tierno Galván as mayor, deeply humanist and considered the mayor of La
Movida.
The
fight against drugs was done in two different ways, one moral and other
physical. Drugs played an important role in the musical groups as heroine,
speed and amphetamines.
During
1980 – 1982 the groups were visible, heterogeneous and quite a few. The
different musical types that you could find in that moment were: punk, after
punk, techno and rock.
The sky
of Madrid changed thanks to the figure of Torre
España, called Pirulí, which was important for the retransmission of the World’s
Cup of football in 1982.
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| Photo of the "Pirulí", one of the most known buildings in Madrid |
Very
important is to highlight the attempted coup the 23th of February in 1981 by
Tejero, which stirred up people of Movida Madrileña, that were seeing its end.
As in
the case of music and art; fashion in the Movida was involved at the same time
with the rest of fields. The most important brands were: Adolfo Domínguez, Jesús
Del Pozo, and Agatha Ruíz de la Prada. Clothing was very important because was
the way of being identified according to your musical or artistical tastes.
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| Collage of some designs in those years. |
Print culture evolved two
magazines popping color:
o - “La Luna”: with more
text and less fashionable design.
o - “Madrid me mata”: with more graphics than
literary.
In
March of 1985 the famous Rock-Ola
club closed because of a street fight that ended with the death
of a man.
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| Photo of Rock-Ola club. |
In the lasts years of this decade, the movement was losing
strength and little by little it was dissolving or developing into other kinds
of art.
