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Canzone per te
(Sergio Bardotti-Sergio Endrigo) – Sergio Endrigo, Roberto Carlos, 1968 Endrigo, a singer with an intimate style, had two ideal matches in mind for Canzone per te, both with great voices. One was Alain Barriere, the other Riccardo Del Turco, his brother-in-law. Instead, at first they proposed we try Astrud Gilberto, a great international star. We […]
La locomotiva
‘And now, to wrap things up, I need something about “La locomotiva”’. ‘Com’on! I’ve already written about that thousands of times…’ ‘Trust me, we need it. It’s your most famous song, and people …’ ‘Hold on! You make it sound like it’s the only thing I’ve ever written. I’ve done other songs – I’m not […]
Azzurro
I became a singer-songwriter by force of circumstances. O rather, by the force of … music. In fact, everything started with my passion for music. As I didn’t have a classical training, I couldn’t become a classical musician. In spite of my passion, I wasn’t able to cultivate it properly. And because I lived in […]
Panama
For Panama, the record company set me free. I don’t remember why, but I didn’t want to go to New York to record. So I decided to call four American musicians and to work in a new studio, outside RCA, which already had three or four of them inside, some of the most modern and […]
Il canto degli italiani (Fratelli d’Italia)
The most surprising historical aspect of Fratelli d’Italia is probably how quickly the verses written by Goffredo Mameli spread and became a battle anthem. In 1847, there were newspapers that printed more opinions and local news than news of the world, because there were no press agencies. But there were none of those modern means […]
Creuza de mä
At times I felt proud, and at other times let down. But always, at any rate, a little ashamed to find myself almost forced to leaf through, to scrutinize the specialized magazines with my eyes bugging out like snail’s eyes, to see what position my latest so-called recorded product had reached in the charts. Because […]
E se domani
Carlo Alberto Rossi: “E se domani also went unnoticed at the Sanremo Festival. I wrote it one very melancholy Saturday afternoon, while Marisa (who later became my wife) was in Parma, with her parents. We’d left each other after a half-fight, and I kept thinking about her, how much I would suffer if I never […]
I giardini di marzo
Mogol: “I believe I have an extraordinary gift. I believe I have a very remarkable capacity for reception. In my school in Umbria, I deny that we’re creative to the students. I tell them that we’re receptive. I tell them that the artist is someone who is on the balcony of the universe. And there […]
Nel blu, dipinto di blu
What’s the real story? I was living in Rome back then, in Via Vittoria. Modugno was a generous friend, with advice and money. He was already earning well. He was performing as a singer and actor and appeared on TV. Since he had a car, one day he invited me to go to the beach. […]
Theorius Campus
Antonello Venditti: “I must say it was a risk. Not for us but for Micocci and Lilli Greco, who produced the record and who knew how to enchant the labels. I had a song like Roma capoccia, which I had people listen to and everyone liked it. It was revolutionary in terms of tastes, therefore […]