The northern lights in the song title “Northern Lights” by the band Renaissance are actually a reference to the northern lights of England. So there is just a play on words in the title and no actual reference to the Aurora Borealis in the lyrics. The Northern Lights or to give them their technical name, …
Monthly Archives: August 2026
I Imagine the Country
The song has its origins in the summer of 1989 just prior to the collapse of communism. At a local festival Dežo Ursiny sang John Lennon’s Imagine. This was followed by a Slovak version written by Ivan Štrpka. The Slovak version became “Predstavujem Si Krajinu” (I imagine the country). At the time it symbolised living …