In the liner notes to “Nothing Like the Sun,” Sting wrote "'Secret Marriage' was adapted from a melody by Hans Eisler. Eisler was a colleague of Bertlot Brecht, who like him, fled to America to escape the Nazis who hounded him for the rest of his life in various disguises."
The song is featured in the soundtrack to Four Weddings and a Funeral.
[Bill Bredice] I did a little research and found the following passage from the November/December 1987 edition of SPIN magazine, with Sting on the cover, as told by Vic Garbarini, the interviewer:
During a break he plays me a simple vocal and piano piece that he wants to add to the album. It's called "The Secret Marriage," and it's about the inner joining of two people without the official sanction of the church or state. I enthuse about it being the most gorgeous Bertolt Brecht song I've ever heard. He grins shyly. "Actually, I completely rewrote Brecht's original lyrics -- it was originally called 'The Little Radio' -- and I just kept his collaborator's music." I remind him that in Jungian psychology, as well as American Indian lore and other mythologies, the "inner, secret
marriage" refers to the balancing and joining together of the male and female parts of oneself to achieve a state of wholeness.
In the liner notes to “Nothing Like the Sun,” Sting wrote "'Secret Marriage' was adapted from a melody by Hans Eisler. Eisler was a colleague of Bertlot Brecht, who like him, fled to America to escape the Nazis who hounded him for the rest of his life in various disguises."
The song is featured in the soundtrack to Four Weddings and a Funeral.
[Bill Bredice] I did a little research and found the following passage from the November/December 1987 edition of SPIN magazine, with Sting on the cover, as told by Vic Garbarini, the interviewer:
During a break he plays me a simple vocal and piano piece that he wants to add to the album. It's called "The Secret Marriage," and it's about the inner joining of two people without the official sanction of the church or state. I enthuse about it being the most gorgeous Bertolt Brecht song I've ever heard. He grins shyly. "Actually, I completely rewrote Brecht's original lyrics -- it was originally called 'The Little Radio' -- and I just kept his collaborator's music." I remind him that in Jungian psychology, as well as American Indian lore and other mythologies, the "inner, secret marriage" refers to the balancing and joining together of the male and female parts of oneself to achieve a state of wholeness.