Oh, Vienna: And Other Stories

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Yes, Midge Ure has Fleetwood Mac to thank for his landmark hit Vienna". ➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣. 11 July 2020 . Retrieved 10 November 2023. Stefano Lazzarini from RomaMost probably my favourite song. Heard it for the first time in a dark Dorset night and I was suddenly caught in the crepuscule of Vienna of the emperors and their ephemeral glory, masterfully depicted in an aura of haunting melancholy: in a word, decadence. Years gone by, but that feeling is still there everytime I listen to it.

Julian - I agree with you regarding that fact that the song is NOT about the movie The Third Man. However, you sound like someone who hasn't seen the movie but has read a synopsis of it. [No offence ment. Please hear me out with the rest of my reply].

Hopefully you will all read the book by Angus Robertson…this is a really serious book about Vienna'It offers a fresh perspective on the city in which Robertson worked as a journalist for nearly a decade and involved extensive original research' I can see where people can get an impression that the movie influenced the song. After all, the movie is not horrific as you claim it is (the idea behind it is though). It is actually quiet atmospheric, with it's unusual score, strange camera angles and lighting that is very mood invoking (whether the bright lights in the sewer scenes or the dark streets with lights shimmering on the roads etc). The movie does have an ebb and flow of sights and sounds.

Craft beer has come of age in Vienna with a number of bars specialising in locally made brews. Just off Mariahilferstrasse, Ammutson Craft Beer Dive's commitment to fresh tap beer from local microbreweries is a welcome addition to the scene. While stalwart craft beer venues like Beaver Brewing Company continue to provide a hearty mix of delicious food, alongside their expansive and regularly changing craft beer menus. Beer drinkers, on your marks... Christmas markets

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The Austro-Hungarian empire was, as empires go, comparatively short-lived. It began in 1867 with the Ausgleich – the "Compromise" – that saw the old Austrian and Hapsburg empire transmogrified into a new Austria-Hungary, a strange hybrid empire with a dual monarchy whose imperial life ended in 1918 with defeat in the first world war. In fact, Austria-Hungary contained many other countries and ethnic groups and 11 recognised languages. This curious amalgam of peoples included Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians, Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Romanians and Italians. For the duration of its existence its emperor was Franz Joseph I. He reigned for nearly 68 years, dying in 1916 at the age of 86. The multi-generational length of his reign gave an illusion of permanence, of timeless durability, but as the old man grew ever more aged, so too the prospect of his death generated a collective sense of impending disaster. This growing fearfulness resonates in the literature of the period but there was a general feeling throughout the empire that everything would change once the old gentleman passed away. His son and heir, Crown Prince Rudolf, committed suicide at Mayerling in 1889. Franz Joseph's nephew, Franz Ferdinand, became archduke and the heir presumptive to the empire. There was at least the notion that the dynasty would continue until – in June 1914 – Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, made a state visit to Sarajevo.