TABU TOPIC in the family of Meky Žbirka († 69): THE TRUTH about suicide of his older brother Jason († 25) – Pluska.sk

Mecca had two older brothers. Tony, who lives in Bratislava and with the famous singer, was in regular contact, as well as Jason. However, he killed himself in 1969. This extremely tragic and traumatic event was hardly mentioned in the Žbirkov family. And although Mecca in the past about the deceased brother, who is at home called Jasey, he also composed the song, and only years later did he find the strength to talk about the causes of his death.

“Jasey, oh Jasey, am I looking for you where you are? Come to us for a moment, I’ll let you abandon Abbey Road. You’ll know Let It Be, the plates you didn’t buy. Jasey, you’re my older brother, you know I love you, and even though I can’t see you, smile and send a cold. “ sings Mecca in the song Jaseywhich is on the album Mecca from 1997. “Jason died young because he wasn’t even 25 years old and I still don’t know why he decided to leave the world voluntarily. I can’t explain it, ” Žbirka told Nový Čas in 2008, when he commented on the event for the first time.

Although the singer did not like to talk about it, he returned to the tragedy when he gave an interview to the Czech Blesk at the time of the premiere of his new documentary MEKY in 2020. “I am not able to say exactly why he did it, my parents used to communicate with him at the time. But when I think about it, it is possible that it was related to the Soviet occupation. It took place 5 months after the September invasion. He was a musician and an intellectual, he belonged to the idealistic generation that lived by what happened in the 1960s and wanted to change the world for the better. And so what happened to us hit him hard. He probably still had some personal problems, but the political situation could also have affected him. His death shook my parents terribly, and she derailed me too. Jason’s suicide has become a taboo topic at home. We haven’t talked about that in our country. And now I have no one to ask. “ revealed in 2020 Žbirka in an interview for Blesk magazine.

Shortly after Jason’s death, there were even speculations that this may have been a form of protest against the communist regime that he had shown in Prague. Jan Palach, who just demonstratively burned himself a month before Jason Žbirka ‘s death in January 1969. “Why did he do it? This is a question I do not know the answer to. I can only assume that it was nothing like unhappy love. He was rather intellectually based. He read Franz Kafka and similar books. But I guess he got into a depression, or a situation where life seemed hopeless, “ Mecca once said for New Time.

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