(Just like) Starting over

.The original, and the version: start - and finish - in Germany
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Germany was the starting point - and finishing -, for two of those groups for who God pointed and didn't said "go, be gauche in life". He said, more probably, "go - and write your names in History".

One came from Liverpool, calling at Hamburg, coming back to England and after to the United States, and so on, forever - giving, even, their names to true stars in sky. The another, from many points in Brazil. Almost all went to Europe (none exactly to Hamburg, though some to German cities; some even passed by Liverpool).

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One of the most famous phrases by John Lennon made some liverpoolians upset: he used to say that he was grown in Hamburg, not in Liverpool. It makes sense - The Beatles were formed in the port city, but became a very band, a musicians groups, indeed, in the German city, playing all night long, non-stop, until exhaustion. In the case of the Brazilian Team, in the WC'06, it arrived in Germany when almost all players had left behind their "Hamburgs", their clubs and troubles in the beginning of their carreers. The iminent consacration would be the conquest of that tournament, considered almost unavoidable even by the adversaries.

The Beatlemania - specially what ensued after the first step of one of the Fab Four in the JFK Airport, in New York - was the fuse of the biggest pop phenomenom ever; what cames after, if it's not literally a copy, has something of. The very Beatlemania launched over the four (just like the players of the "Seleção", decades after) humble English guys a celebrity (and wealthy) to which they coped well with for a lot of time - until the Seventies, a certain general disbelief, the oil crisis and Lennon writing, in God, that "the dream is over". The "Beatlemania" with the Brazilian Team in 2006 - not exactly in Germany, but in the Swiss city of Weggis, totally, thought, incorpored to the event in the neighbour Germania - had reverse effect. From the early Rock and Roll Music, it went to Help!, to finally finish with the same "the dream is over", from God. The scene of the groupie, hallucinated, rolling over Ronaldinho Gaúcho, during a coaching, gives a notion of this revisited version of the youth fever of the Sixties.

One of the last Lennon's songs, the beautiful Starting Over, talks about restart: "we have grown". We hope so.
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