{"id":5892,"date":"2023-08-31T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/title-item\/what-the-hell-happened-to-blood-sweat-tears\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T01:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T22:00:51","slug":"what-the-hell-happened-to-blood-sweat-tears","status":"publish","type":"title-item","link":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/title-item\/what-the-hell-happened-to-blood-sweat-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p-sm\">A\u00a0political thrillerwith a classic rock band at theheart of the action, <strong><em>What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears?<\/em><\/strong> involves the U.S. State Department, the Nixon White House, the governments of Yugoslavia, Romania and\u00a0Poland and documentary footage\u00a0that has been suppressed for over 50 years by one or all of the above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p-sm\"><br>In June 1970, hot off their spectacular Grammy\u00ae win for Album of the Year (besting The Beatles\u2019 \u201cAbbey Road\u201d), <strong>Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears<\/strong> becomes the first American rock band to perform behind the Iron Curtain,\u00a0doing concerts in Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland on a tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud835\ude52\ud835\ude5d\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude69 \ud835\ude4f\ud835\ude5d\ud835\ude5a \ud835\ude43\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude61\ud835\ude61 \ud835\ude43\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude65\ud835\ude65\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude63\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude59 \ud835\ude4f\ud835\ude64 \ud835\ude3d\ud835\ude61\ud835\ude64\ud835\ude64\ud835\ude59, \ud835\ude4e\ud835\ude6c\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude69 &amp; \ud835\ude4f\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude67\ud835\ude68? \/\/ \ud835\ude3f\ud835\ude64\ud835\ude60\ud835\ude4e\ud835\ude69\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude69\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude64\ud835\ude63 \ud835\udfee\ud835\udfec\ud835\udfee\ud835\udfef \/\/ \ud835\udde7\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddff\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bMvNYHkxdeE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p-sm\">In June 1970, hot off their spectacular Grammy\u00ae win for Album of the Year (besting The Beatles\u2019 \u201cAbbey Road\u201d), <strong>Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears<\/strong> becomes the first American rock band to perform behind the Iron Curtain,\u00a0doing concerts in Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland on a tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p-sm\">Like much of the youth in America, band members have been outspoken and critical of the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War. The Iron Curtain Tour seems to be a curious decision by the band, which was at the very height of their popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p-sm\">Upon their return, the band becomes a victim of the significant societal upheaval and culture wars in a polarized America, divided as much then as it is now.\u00a0 Political criticism typically comes from one side or the other. But in 1970, <strong>Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears<\/strong> find themselves in the\u00a0crossfire from both the Right AND the Left and the group suffers greatly as a result. Suddenly, they are no longer hip and cool and lose support from fans, the media, concert bookers and the recording industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p-sm\">In short, the Right is outraged by the U.S. government footing the bill for an anti-war\/anti-Nixon rock band to tour overseas and refer to Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears members as \u201cCommunists\u201d.&nbsp; The Left is critical of the band for appearing to be an instrument of the U.S. government and\/or the CIA.&nbsp;<br>Through documentary footage shot during the Iron Curtain tour (and thought to be lost) and present-day interviews with band members and historians, as well as the unsealing of government records, <strong><em>What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears? <\/em><\/strong>unravels the details of this extraordinary year in the life of the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p-sm\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un thriller politic centrat \u00een jurul unei trupe rock, What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat &#038; Tears? implic\u0103 Departamentul de Stat al SUA, Casa Alb\u0103 din era Nixon, guvernele Iugoslaviei, Rom\u00e2niei \u0219i Poloniei, dar \u0219i film\u0103ri-document ce au fost interzise vreme de 50 de ani de c\u0103tre una sau mai multe dintre institu\u021biile implicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"title-type":[91],"title-tag":[],"title-genre":[],"title-language":[105],"title-country":[],"title-company":[],"title-color":[],"title-sound-mix":[],"title-certificate":[],"title-network":[],"title-status":[],"title-season":[],"class_list":["post-5892","title-item","type-title-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","title-type-documentary","title-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-item\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/title-item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-item\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5928,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-item\/5892\/revisions\/5928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"title-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-type?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-tag?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-genre?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-language?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-country?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-company?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-color","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-color?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-sound-mix","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-sound-mix?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-certificate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-certificate?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-network","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-network?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-status?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"title-season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.dokstation.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/title-season?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}