David Bowie to enter Wildlife Hall of Fame after helping dolphin slaughter protests
DAVID Bowie is to be welcomed into the Wildlife Heroes’ Hall of Fame at a mass protest against dolphin slaughter.
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Bowie is to be honoured by animal rights activists during a march in London tomorrow
The
rock genius will he hailed by demonstrators on Saturday as they sing
one of his classics that has become the battle hymn of animal
campaigners.
In an act of solidarity against
Japan’s reviled Taiji dolphin drives, Bowie allowed his 1977 Heroes
anthem to be the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove,
which exposed the slaughter.
The song, played at the 2012 London Olympics to welcome competing athletes into the stadium, has the following lyric:
I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes
Just for one day
Bowie
allowed film-makers to use the music for a minimum fee because he was
such a committed supporter of efforts to save dolphins.
He even had a tattoo of a dolphin on his calf.
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Dolphins are chased to a cove during the traditional Taiji slaughter in Japan
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Ric O'Barry's (front left) documentary The Cove sparked outrage at the massacre of dolphins in Japan
That
action will be lauded on Saturday when animal welfare campaigners march
across London to demonstrate outside the Japanese Embassy, singing the
Heroes anthem.
David Bowie is now for ever linked with the dolphin protection movement through his song Heroes which closes The Cove
Campaign group London
Against the Dolphin Massacre will be joining with the Born
Free Foundation and Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project to highlight the
cruelty of hundreds of dolphins being slaughtered in gory, blood-stained
seas or taken captive to become marine park exhibits.
Dominic Dyer from the Born Free Foundation will be introducing the tribute to Bowie during the protest.
“David
Bowie is now for ever linked with the dolphin protection movement
through his song Heroes which closes The Cove,” he explained.
“For
a man who famously protected his music and generated tens of millions
of pounds from his back catalogue, the fact he allowed the song to be
used in the film for next to nothing, says an awful lot about his care
and compassion for animals.
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Thousands of fans gathered in Brixton on Sunday night to pay their respects to the iconic genius
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