Living the Noche Loca
"If you lived in the eighties and remember it, then you didn't live the eighties." That saying refers to the wild nights and days of that reactionary decade the way it was lived in Madrid and a few other cities, Vigo in Galicia included. The new constitution had been signed in 1978 and it was only then that people realized they had shaken off the effects of Franco, who had died in 1975. Censorship had been done with, people became aware of the world outside Spain, and the Church lost its total control of public morality. It was much like the counter-culture of the sixties in other countries, minus the philosophy. Those who lived la movida , as it was called, weren't interested in changing the world. They were interested in having fun without anyone telling them it was a sin or forbidden. It started in Madrid, in the neighborhood of Malasaña, one of the oldest. That was the center of the movement, with different discos and music bars appearing like psychedelic mushr...