On October 13, 1977, Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-230c jetliner travelling from Palma de Mallorca, Spain to Frankfurt, Germany, was hijacked by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Over the course of the 122 hour-long ordeal, 86 passengers were taken as hostages, the captain, Jürgen Schumann, was murdered, the plane was flown 10,000km, finally arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, and conclude with the German counter-terrorism group, Grenzschutzguppe 9, recapturing the plane, killing three terrorists in the process.
A year later, Los Angeles-based technopunks The Screamers would release “122 Hours of Fear,” a song outlining the experience of the hijacking, sung from the perspective of one of the hostages. Forty-three years later, Halifax’s Like A Motorcycle have revisited the single to introduce their new sound, along with a new drummer. Continue reading Like A Motorcycle Double Down on the Season’s Greetings With a Cover of The Screamers’ ‘122 Hours of Fear’
