I had a nice surprise, today.
The daughter of some dear friends of ours just got back from spending a semester in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Back over Labor Day weekend, we’d all gotten together and Ella — the daughter in question — heard me laboriously bloviating about the whole Clics Modernos saga. It’s a long, convoluted story, but if you’ve not been following this blog for very long, I played a small role in determining the exact location of the cover of the landmark 1983 album by preeminent Argentine rock star, Charly Garcia — via an old photograph by a Swedish tourist of Cortandt Alley at Walker Street in TriBeCa. It’s actually way more complicated than that, but you can read more here, if you’re curious.
In any case, I posted that all that here on my silly blog, back before the days COVID, and intrepid Argentines Inaki Rojas and Mariano Cabrera went a bit berserk, suggesting it was like determining the precise location of Abbey Road.
In 2023, a plaque was put up on the corner to commemorate it, which was a very big deal indeed. It’s now a spot that thousands of fans flock to in order to pay homage. Don’t believe me? Click here and scroll down,
Anyway, prizing a vinyl copy of the record (let alone from its native Argentina) is no easy feat, but thanks to Ella, I now possess it.
Yay for Ella!
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