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"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a song by the Bee Gees, released on 15 November 1993 by Polydor Records as the second single from their 20th studio album, Size Isn't Everything (1993). It was both written and produced by the brothers, peaking at number four on the UK Singles Chart and number six in Ireland. This song would be the band's highest ...
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.
The European hit single, "For Whom the Bell Tolls", bubbled under on Billboard's Hot 100 at No. 109. [ 15 ] Reception of the album was mixed around the world, though it is notable that it was one of the most successful Bee Gees albums in Argentina , peaking at No. 1 due to the big success of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" there. [ 16 ]
The song was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls about the process of death in modern warfare and the bloody Spanish Civil War.Specific allusions are made to the scene described in Chapter 27 of the book, in which five soldiers are obliterated during an airstrike after taking a defensive position on a hill.
John McCain, who died Saturday in Arizona, always said "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was his favorite novel and that its hero was a source of inspiration throughout his life. How the work of Hemingway ...
Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ / HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.
I noticed that when one types in "For Whom The Bell Tolls" the Ernest Hemingway book appears as well as a note about the Metallica song by the same name. Well, most people are familiar with that song, but not the one written and performed by the Bee Gees. So I decided to make a link to the Bee Gees version as well.
Ernest Hemingway as photographed for the 1940 edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls. The iceberg theory or theory of omission is a writing technique coined by American writer Ernest Hemingway. As a young journalist, Hemingway had to focus his newspaper reports on immediate events, with very little context or interpretation.