His son, the infamously unstable Uday, would edit and stream Western music and movies on a second channel, “Youth TV,” reports the Aspen Institute. “Patriotic music” was always playing on the radio, and according to PBS Frontline, Saddam would broadcast music videos nightly. Nasrat Al-Bader and many other talented musicians were once locked inside a recording studio, while bombs fell on the city, until they composed a large quota of propagandist songs to be played on national television and radio, according to Vice. But taking notes from Joseph Stalin ( his hero), Saddam weaponized his “refined” tastes by tightly controlling artistic production during his reign.Īs a musician, it was apparently a curse to catch Saddam’s ear.
it is at least coherent, so kudos to Saddam for that.”) I did not have to look very hard to learn a few surprising facts about Saddam Hussein: Despite the horror of his regime, persistent rumors circulate about the more human moments of his life - his family dynamics, his tastes in poetry and literature, his beverage of choice and his lavish palaces that dot the landscape from Tikrit to Bahgdad.Īpproaching the Osmond rumor from the outside, one must first ask if this leader was a fan of Western music generally, and more specifically, Osmondmania.
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Army custody, had a very public trial and was sentenced to death by hanging, which took place three years after his capture, per CNN. Bush addressed the nation after Saddam was captured in December 2003, pulled from a hole in the ground near a farmhouse outside the city of Tikrit - “I have a message for the Iraqi people: You will not have to fear the rule of Saddam Hussein ever again.” State Department, his regime “systematically executed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized and repressed Iraqi people.” He was the first leader to use chemical weapons on his own, killing 30,000 citizens with mustard gas and nerve agents.įormer President George W. Saddam is one of the more notorious figures in history. But two levels of separation remained between me and the truth - Merrill’s attorneys and the CIA. So there it was, straight from an Osmond’s mouth. When asked whether or not Saddam really owned Osmonds records, Merrill chuckled and said, “The CIA told our attorneys at the time, that they had found our records in a vault underneath one of (Saddam’s) palaces.” “We had to seriously discuss whether we would continue to do what we were doing,” he said, talking about the threats to his family. I spoke with Merrill Osmond about all these stories, and he stood by every last one of them. The Osmonds were allegedly deputized and moved into the Riveria apartments in Provo, Utah, after the Symbionese Liberation Army, a domestic terrorist group from Berkeley, California, threatened to kill off every band member individually. “When the military caught Saddam Hussein, they discovered he had a complete collection of Osmonds records.” Chuck Norris supposedly taught them Tang Soo Do (a Korean martial art) which they used in much of their choreography afterward. People say they were friends with Elvis, the Jackson 5, Frank Sinatra and the Bee Gees. There are many wild myths that have swirled around the Osmonds. It might be factual but there is no reliable source that we’re aware of.” His publicist’s response was cryptic: “We can confirm that this is something we/Team Donny have been told to be true.” But when pressed for source details, the publicist said, “No one is sure of the origin. Donny performed with his brothers before going solo and earning his own place in the echelons of celebrity (featured in “Start the Par-dee” with rapper Lil Yachty). The first to respond to my inquiries about the story was Donny Osmond’s publicist. Merrill Osmond, the lead vocalist/bassist in the group, gave a one-sentence account: “When the military caught Saddam Hussein,” he said, “they discovered he had a complete collection of Osmonds records.” Surely a story like this would be documented on the internet, I naively thought, but was able to find only a brief mention in an old interview from The Guardian.
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