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33 Years of Strings: How the Pakistani Band Championed Rock Music in the Subcontinent
Having garnered a cult following across the subcontinent, the band hung up its boots last month.
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While Pakistan was reeling under the oppressive cultural clampdown of President Zia-ul Haq in the 1980s, a revolutionary rock music scene was brewing underground at universities and five-star hotels. Pop rock band Strings, formed in 1988 in Karachi, was a strong pillar of this movement, capturing the imaginations of millions not only in Pakistan, but across South Asia.
âEverything has to end. Thirty three years is a long time. It was going to be never ending. Right now, Strings is loved by all and everything is going well. So, this is a good time to say goodbye,â says vocalist Faisal Kapadia over the phone.
Strings were probably one of the few bands South Asia could call their own.
KARACHI:
If father time doesn’t come for them first – were the Rolling Stones ever to break up, there would be a competitive Olympics of platitudes by critics for the band and their role in rock history. But there would be one line of reasoning in the band’s eulogies that would be missing – that the band appealed to a new generation for every decade of its existence. Because after the mid-nineties, the Stones started to gather moss, and it was their older fans who rolled with them into new decades, they stopped expanding their fan base.
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