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Farina had serious literary talent--he published poetry in the Atlantic, and his novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is still in print--but he willed himself to be a musician, eventually recording with his second wife Mimi Baez Farina (Joan's younger sister), until his slender musical talent was taken for something real. Most of all, though, he wanted to be famous, to occupy a central place in the youth culture he could see taking shape around...
...died of diabetes complications in Ho Chi Minh City last week, wasn't liked by the old Saigon regime bullyboys because they thought his lyrics favored unification and disparaged war. They did, of course, and Son?dubbed "the Bob Dylan of Vietnam" by none other than Joan Baez?became an anti-war icon. The communists were suspicious of Son, and sent him to a re-education camp for four years. "Romantic songs are my style," he told me a year ago. "Now that the pain and sadness of war are gone, young people do not really understand...
DIED. TRINH CONG SON, 62, wispy but uncompromising singer-songwriter whom Joan Baez called "the Bob Dylan of Vietnam"; of diabetes; in Ho Chi Minh City...
...Iris Baez, whose son was fatally choked by a NYPD officer in 1994, started the discussion by saying that police seem to be above...
...figured this police officer who murdered my son would go to jail, because if my son murdered a police officer he would go to jail," Baez said. "It's a double standard...