It is generally believed that the distortion of the national anthem for anti-militarist purposes originated with Jimi Hendrix and his Woodstock Star Spangled Banner. That's wrong. This was born 1914, short before the beginning of WWI, when Alberto Savinio, painter, writer and composer as well as the brother of the great Giorgio De Chirico, composed L'exécution du général for piano solo by distorting and splintering “Brothers of Italy”, the Italian national anthem. And, perhaps, Jimi Hendrix, who was a first rank musician, may have known this thing our website is pleased to repropose among various anniversaries of “great wars”.