Because it is 50th anniversary of our legendary rock masterpiece "Dnevnik jedne ljubavi" (The Diary of One Love), Croatian rock legend Josipa Lisac is all over the news again - while haters will hate, fans are celebrating this fantastic piece of music released back in 1973. and to my biggest surprise no less than Croatian State Archives have published several less known photographs celebrating this outstanding artist - amongst others, there was a photo that even I as a hard-core fan have never seen before, so I was thrilled to bits to discover it and admiring it ever since.
The photo was taken in 1973. just when "Dnevnik jedne ljubavi" was released and my guess would be that it was the same photo shoot that produced picture later used for her 1973. single aimed for that year Eurovision. Up to that point her music was quite downbeat (which I loved but it did not register in sales) and starting from now her lover, composer and Svengali Karlo Metikoš will steer her into more upbeat direction, resulting with this single and subsequent rock releases. There is a clear, audible change in sound, starting from now she will be our only female rock singer for quite a while. Above mentioned single was one of three attempts to break Josipa into Eurovision - she went on national TV selection in 1969, 1973 and 1987 - curiously, seems that her visual extravagance always worked against her and the mainstream audience just couldn't accept her so she never went further than local competition but 1973. and 1987. songs were major hits nevertheless. Because her later visual metamorphoses were so striking and memorable, public tends to forget how relatively demure she was at the start (and even more entertaining is the idea that this was supposed to be outrageous and rebellious back than).
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