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Io ho in mente te
(Sylvia Fricker-Mogol) – Equipe 84 ,1966 Il problema più grande per un musicista è il bisogno continuo di ascoltare musica e ancora musica. Quella è la sua droga, cibo per il suo cervello. Probabilmente non sa risolvere divisioni, somme o sottrazioni, ma è nato per decifrare un complicato intreccio matematico di armonie e melodie che […]
Andavo a cento all’ora
It was actually on a summer’s day between Bellaria and San Mauro Mare that I had the fateful meeting with the former boxing referee Paolo Lionetti. As well as having been a sports professional, Lionetti was a salesman of lubricating oils and also managed a hundred jukeboxes, which he kept up to date by stocking […]
Una vita da mediano
‘Listen, there’s this piece that you made me hear the other day that made an impression on me, Una vita da mediano. It would be a great title for the book. But: how much does it represent you, how much is it really yours?’ It’s very much mine, really. Because apart from the soccer metaphor, […]
Cuore matto
At the end of 1966, Totò wrote Cuore matto. When he had me listen to it, I immediately understood the strength of the piece. We went to the RCA studios in Rome, to mix this Cuore matto, sung by Totò, for Durium. I have a copy here in my house, a rarity. By chance, in […]
Il Barattolo
When it came to recording Il barattolo, we all agreed immediately: we would have to turn to one of the best Italian musicians for the arrangement. Meccia’s previous records had received mixed reviews for being too original. But this time everyone liked Il barattolo so much that we decided to use a 40-piece orchestra to […]
La gatta
In the meantime, we had moved house. The attic apartment in Boccadasse had been emptied, boxed up and abandoned to a general sadness. The little Siamese cat who never left me, sleeping on my stomach while I was catching a little sun on the terrace and leaving a white brushstroke in my tan near my […]
Tua
One morning in January of 1959, while starting to learn, with Carlo at the piano, the two songs that had been assigned to me for the Sanremo Festival, the phone rang: “Good morning, Signora”, said a man’s voice. “I’m the lawyer Cajafa, the director of the Sanremo Casino and organizer of the 1959 Festival”. “Good […]
Amore caro, amore bello
Amore caro, amore bello Amore caro, amore bello (Dear Love, Beautiful Love) (Lucio Battisti-Mogol) – Bruno Lauzi – 1971 My philosophy professor at the glorious D’Oria high school for classical studies in Genoa always said to be wary of those who are unclear and don’t make themselves understood because “He who doesn’t make himself understood […]
New Wave a Firenze
In the 1980s, the city of Florence became the capital of independent music, with its nightclubs, groups, record labels, magazines, festivals, and experiments in different expressive languages. The prevailing word was New Wave, which after having baptized the second generation of rock in the United Kingdom and United States, was also spreading here, finding its […]
Cantagiro 1970
List of the singers and songs in the competition Girone A Camaleonti – Ti amo da un’ora Adriano Celentano – Viola Dik Dik – L’isola di Wight Don Backy – Cronaca Gipo Farassino – Ballata per un eroe Nino Ferrer – Io, tu e il mare Jimmy Fontana – Bella, sdraiata e sola Rosanna Fratello […]