Seven Years In Tibet

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Come on Eileen was a very different song compare with Seven Years in Tibet. Seven Years in Tibet was prompt because of the Tibet rebellion on 10 March, 1959. The original causes was the conflict between Tibetan army and people’s liberation army, however, as the time passes, the incident escalated to a bigger scale; it became the conflicts between the Tibetan government and the Chinese government.
David Bowie, the singer of Seven Years in Tibet, was personally influence by the Buddhism a lot in his life. According to the article “Seven Years in Tibet”, Bowie discovered Buddhism in his early teens. As a result, when he heard about the Tibet incident, he was furious, and this incident triggered him to compose the song “Seven Years in Tibet”.

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