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Vasco Rossi Eh Già4/25/2021
CASINI ROBERTO, RIGHI ANDREA, ROSSI VASCO, ROSSI SCHMIDT LUCA GIOVANNI OTMAR Lyrics EMI Music Publishing Lyrics powered by LyricFind.Rossi invited a few Bosnian bands like Sikter, Lezi Majmune, and Protest to perform but was heavily criticized by the press because the proceeds werent given to charity, despite the fact they were never meant to be.
During his career, he has published 30 albums (not including unofficial releases) and has written over 250 songs, as well as lyrics for other artists. With more than 35 millions of copies sold, he is one of the best-selling Italian singers. His Modena Park 2017 concert is the current highest-attended ticketed concert of all time. His father, Carlo Rossi, was a truck-driver, and his mother, Novella, a housewife. It was his mother herself who decided to enroll him in singing school when he was a little boy, a choice that must have seemed rather peculiar within the mentality of a small village in the Apennines like Zocca. Nonetheless, Rossi fell in love with music and at the age of 14 began playing with his first band. Upon graduating he opened a music club, Punto Club, and enrolled in university at the faculty of Economics and Business. In 1979, he released a second album, Non siamo mica gli americani (Were not at all the Americans), which included, Albachiara (Cleardawn), one of his biggest hits, a ballad considered emblematic of Rossis poetic style. His most controversial album, Colpa dAlfredo (Alfredos fault) followed in 1980; its title-track was censored from the radio and let loose bitter criticism because it contained some lyrics referring to women considered too explicit at that time. The controversy actually increased Rossis popularity, and he quickly saw himself famous on a national level, particularly after performing live on Domenica In, a popular Italian television program. The performance did not particularly please journalist Nantas Salvalaggio, who published a scathing article against Rossi calling him a drug addict. The title track, another signature song of his, would become commonly recognized as a generational hymn. Here, he once again found himself under harsh criticism, and came in last place in the festival. In April of the same year the album Vado al Massimo was released. The following year, he reappeared at the Sanremo Music Festival, this time performing Vita spericolata (Daredevil Life), probably his most popular song, and finishing in second-to-last place due to his apparent state of intoxication. The following album, Bollicine (Little Bubbles), published in 1983, was his sixth in seven years, and was the album that consecrated him definitively as an idol of the new generation and an icon of Italian rock. The title track, whose lyrics are about Coke (but also demonstrate a clear assonance with cocaine ), won the Festivalbar 83, and his tour that year was an enormous success. In April, however, he was arrested on charges of drug possession. He was immediately granted provisional release from jail, but subsequently sentenced to 2 years and eight months of probation. Shortly thereafter he released his next album, Cosa succede in citt (Whats going on in the city), which became one of his weakest critically and did not reach past sales. It reached 800,000 sales in Italy. The success of his 1989 tour brought the release of the live album Fronte del palco (a pun on the Italian title of Marlon Brando s film Waterfront which was Fronte del porto, and thus meaning Stage Front) and the organization of two concerts in 1990, one at the San Siro stadium in Milan and the other at the Flaminio in Rome. In 1994, he gave the unreleased Senza Parole (Without Words) as a gift to members of his official fan-club.
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