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''Bitanga i princeza'' (trans. ''The Brute and the Princess'') is the fourth studio album by Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme, released in 1979. ''Bitanga i princeza'' was Bijelo Dugme's first album to feature Điđi Jankelić on drums. It was the band's last hard rock-oriented album before their switch to new wave in the following year.〔 In 1998, ''Bitanga i princeza'' was polled as the 10th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book ''YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike'' (''YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Pop and Rock Music''). In 2015, the album was pronounced the 15th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav albums published by Croatian edition of ''Rolling Stone''. ==Background== After the departures of drummer Ipe Ivandić and keyboardist Laza Ristovski, both of whom ended up leaving the band in 1978 following the release of their side project ''Stižemo'' (''Here We Come''), Bijelo Dugme got rejoined by keyboardist Vlado Pravdić, who left the band in 1976 to serve his mandatory army stint, while Ivandić was replaced with Điđi Jankelić, who previously played on the band's frontman Željko Bebek's solo album ''Skoro da smo isti'' (''We're Almost the Same'').〔 The band started preparing their new album during 1978 in Niška Banja‚ while Bijelo Dugme's leader Goran Bregović was still serving the army in Niš, but they definitely reunited in Sarajevo on November 1.〔 Originally, the band's record label, Jugoton, scheduled the recording in London's AIR Studios (in which the band's previous two studio albums were recorded) for the end of November, in order for the record to be released before New Year holidays. However, after it became clear that the band would not be able to record in November, and new schedule in AIR Studios could not be made, the recording sessions were moved to Belgrade. The album was recorded during January 1979 in PGP-RTB Studio in Belgrade, and mastered in Abbey Road Studios in London. The album was, as the band's previous two studio albums, produced by Neil Harrison.〔(''Bitanga i princeza'' at Discogs )〕 It did not feature the band's trademark folk-influenced hard rock sound, as it featured almost no folk music elements, while the ballads "Kad zaboraviš juli" and "Sve će to mila moja prekriti ruzmarin, snjegovi i šaš" featured a symphonic orchestra. The making of the album was followed by censorship. The original cover, designed by Bijelo Dugme's old collaborator Dragan Stefanović and featuring female leg kicking male's genital area, was refused by the band's label, Jugoton as "vulgar".〔 Stefanović then designed an entirely white album cover, but it was refused by Jugoton editors with the explanation that it would demand the album to be cheaper. The album ended up featuring a cover designed by Jugoton's designer Ivan Ivezić.〔 The verse "Koji mi je moj" ("What the fuck is wrong with me") was excluded from the song "Ala je glupo zaboravit njen broj", and the verse "A Hrist je bio kopile i jad" ("And Christ was bastard and misery") from the song "Sve će to, mila moja, prekriti ruzmarin, snjegovi i šaš" was replaced with "A on je bio kopile i jad" ("And he was bastard and misery").〔 The album was released on March 16, 1979.〔 In April 1979, in an interview for ''Džuboks'' magazine, Bregović, stated that he accepted to edit the lyrics, but that he objected the altering of Stefanović's cover: Bregović commented the editing of "Ala je glupo zaboravit njen broj" and "Sve će to, mila moja, prekriti ruzmarin, snjegovi i šaš" lyrics: In 2005, on the recording of the documentary series ''Rockovnik'', Bregović stated: "Now I probably wouldn't write that verse." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bitanga i princeza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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