Whoever is free to move their skeleton while a song by the iconic rumbles Meccano in the background, that “don’t look at me, don’t look at me, don’t look at me”. If you are not a fan of his hits, I am very sure that you will have peeled the twelve grapes at the same time that Ana Torroja warned you of the time with “five more minutes for the countdown” and invited you to do a “balance of good and bad”.
‘Let’s say I’m talking about Mecano’ is the documentary that was broadcast last Wednesday on La Sexta and that corresponds exactly to what we are going to do today. With Iñaki López as host, the space recalled the extensive career of the band with the help of more than 30 interviews and with which, in turn, they uncovered the ins and outs of its three components. However, the most revealing featured Nacho Cano’s muse.
We refer to Coloma Fernandez, ex-girlfriend and source of inspiration for the singer, who appears on television for the first time and makes us participants in the romantic story from which two songs emerged. A good one and a bad one, and not because of its quality but because of its content. And it is that one represents the ideal of the beginning of his romance with the artist, ‘The force of destiny’, hence “one night in the gold bar I decided to attack”. And the other, how they faced the break, ‘7 de septiembre’, with the heartbreaking “although determined to blow, there are flames that don’t even catch the sea”.
Regarding the first song, Fernández explained to the presenter that the bar that Cano mentions is the Golden nightclub, near the Gran Vía, where “we spoke for the first time”: “It caught my attention because it was totally different from the rest“, he confesses.
The love between Nacho and Coloma almost reached a decade, the breakup brought them forward. And with her ‘7 de septiembre’, published three years after they finished her story and titled after the date on which they both celebrated her anniversary at the La Parra restaurant in Madrid. Specifically, at “the same little table that has seen us tied up” and that watches “that the usual corner stay quiet“, what’s the song say.
Eye! That it is at that same table where Fernández told his story in ‘Let’s say I’m talking about Mecano’ and that, according to him, brings back a lot of memories: “When we finished, I got hooked and still loving him too much enough to be apart,” he adds.
But what does the verse “we don’t know whether to kiss on the face or on the lips” correspond to? Very easy, Nacho and Coloma They continued to celebrate their anniversary every September 7 for the next eight years, together and regardless of whether each one had redone their lives: “For my part, it was like my way of dissolving that feeling and continuing to have that guiding thread,” Fernández clarifies. , alluding to the fact that “to this day I can’t hear it”.
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