“Using my broken Spanish and hand gestures, I asked Sergio, “Why does that house have all those bullet holes?””
Give Me Your Love - an 80s coming of age memoir, chasing music, love, & freedom
At just seventeen, Alex Demilo was uprooted from everything he knew and dropped 5,000 miles into 1980s Argentina—no English, no cell phone, no internet. What started as disorienting exile became liberation in an intoxicating parallel universe, wonderfully wild yet seriously dangerous under a fading military dictatorship.
GIVE ME YOUR LOVE - Playing with Fire in 1980s Argentina - chronicles eighty vivid episodes of what it meant to be chasing music, love, and freedom in the '80s. This coming-of-age memoir captures the journey from a quiet high school kid transformed by punk and new wave into the American lead singer of Como, a raw new wave rock band playing basement bars to thousand-person venues across Buenos Aires and Punta del Este.
Between romances and midnight encores, clerico and discos, a gun to the head and random military searches, Alex rejected all expectations and discovered the joy of living moment to moment and leaping into the unknown with faith that things will be okay, or even better—unforgettable.
An extraordinary and passionate '80s ride—raw, analog, and impossible today.
Buy New Album by Alex Demilo: Como Buenos Aires 1985-86 as featured in the memoir Give Me Your Love
Como was an unlikely and electrifying Buenos Aires new wave rock band fronted by an American who sang his songs in English. Como performed from 1985-86 during the first uncertain years of Argentina's return to democracy following seven years of a brutal military dictatorship. Read More
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