he is a globalstar.ore that he wrote this anonymous for people around the world, making this a traditional dance. 50 years later, he danced to the tune with the film's leading man in munich, much to the delight of the audience. [cheering] >> i am now 80 years old. i feel just as i did in 1937 when i wrote my first song and all of this began. it was on the island where he was born where his mother saying folksongs to him. by the age of 12, he was composing his own music. now thousands of songs including film scores and dozens of operas, ballets, and symphonies all bear his name. >> i feel the need to create melodies. i simply wrote the melodies. i try to maintain the lightheartedness and innocence found in my earlier songs to this very day. >> his country as close to his heart as his music. he joined the resistance against a right-wing military takeover in the 1960's, and he paid the price. his music was banned, he was arrested, and exiled to paris. four years later, a hero's welcome as he returned to a d