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O mia bѐla Madonina
Much of the summer of 1935 had passed and D’Anzi had not yet found the idea that would be a good alternative to the “Piedigrotta”, the “roundup” of Neapolitan songs that closed the Trianon shows. Until one evening in mid-August. “Linda Pini, a famous movie star who was not above singing a song, was the […]
Mamma
Mamma was also composed for a movie. Despite the previous professional relationships with Gigli, before resorting to Bixio, the Itala Film production company had commissioned Pietro Mascagni to write the music. He wrote a complex symphony, but the producers were not convinced, and so they began to think of a song. With the words of […]
Demetrio Stratos e i Ribelli
After the summer of 1966, the group went through a period of crisis. We decided to look for a new voice. We had the name of a guy from Vicenza, Bruno Canzian, but we arrived too late. Celentano had taken me to the Santa Tecla, one of the most important clubs in Milan, for the […]
Sentimiento Nuevo
In “Sentimiento nuevo” we’re basically talking about the erotic, sexual union: the lyrical story shifts from philosophical and literary references from antiquity, to something that, once again, is sung in a carefree way, but requires in-depth knowledge of the classical world and Eastern philosophies to be fully understood. We’re talking about a feeling put into […]
C’è una strana espressione nei tuoi occhi
Shel Shapiro of the Rokes: “When we made C’è una strana espressione nei tuoi occhi, I eliminated the recording in the original simply because I didn’t remember it. We had heard the version of When You Walk in The Room by Jackie DeShannon, who was a singer I loved madly, and not the Searchers’ version, […]
Grazie Roma
The first to set foot in the new house was the dear old Anelli piano that I’d composed Sora Rosa on, with the cigarette burn marks on the end keys because I always play everything in a central position. Afterwards I went in, taking the first step out of the quagmire. I looked at the […]
Il tempo di morire
Sometimes I’ve been criticized for the way I write about women. For example, with Il tempo di morire, I was fiercely criticized by the feminist movement. The song’s lyrics are about a boy who somewhat naively falls in love with a committed woman, and yet to have her for just one night, he’s willing to […]
Si può dare di più
In 1987, you won Sanremo with Tozzi and Morandi… It all began with the Nazionali Cantanti, who at that time were able to help you form friendships with people with whom you would otherwise have had nothing to share, from an artistic point of view: many collaborations started there. And I, who have always been […]
Quante volte
I knew Mimì mostly for Minuetto, a song written by Dario Baldan Bembo, with lyrics by Califfo, which in my opinion is one of the most beautiful Italian songs of the 1970s. We met when I had just finished CERVO A PRIMAVERA, which was released in December 1980 and in two weeks the single had […]
Impressioni di Settembre
La carrozza di Hans came out as a 45 rpm, as the flip side of Impressioni di settembre. This piece was composed on the basis of Franco’s fantastic intuition: it was the first song that didn’t have the classic refrain. I correct myself: the refrain, the ritornello – or inciso, as they used to say […]