Claudio Baglioni 2022, the year of memory

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Not only the birthday, but also other anniversaries

It was the 16 May 19 ... '51 Montesacro and everything began ... " as the incipit of the most important album of the great career of Claudio Baglioni, Along the way, year 1981. And the next, upcoming May 16 will mark the 71th birthday for the Roman artist, who will celebrate it in the way most suited to him: singing in concert. A number of concerts, 71 in all, certainly not casual and the desire to return to sing from soloaccompanied solo from his instrument, a piano.

It is no coincidence that the tour is called TWELVE NOTES ONLY 2022. Returning to singing live after the forced and prolonged break due to the pandemic marks a moment of liberation for all the artists. And he returns to sing in a particular year, where beside the traditional and usual birthday, at least two other important anniversaries will be celebrated worthily.


Two recurrences that bring the Roman singer-songwriter back decades. The first is the one from which it all began, the 1972 it is in fact the year of the song that opened the doors to success a Claudio Baglioni. In this case, the title does not even need to be mentioned. but only the first sentence: "That thin T-shirt of his, so tight to the point that I imagined everything”, The rest then comes by itself, because we all sang it at least once in our life.

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The first fifty years of the song which, in a famous broadcast conducted by Pippo Baudo, Fantastic 5, was elected by the Italians the love song of the century. A song that has forever marked the career of the Roman singer-songwriter, making him, artistically, "immortal".

A Magico 1972

What 1972 it has been an extraordinary year for Italian cinema and theater. In fact, the masterpiece of Bernardo Bertolucci, Ultimo tango a Parigi, interpreted by Marlon Brando, while Italy discovered an extraordinary talent by name Giancarlo Giannini, protagonist of the film by Lina Wertmuller, Metallurgical mimì.

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Not to be forgotten then They Call Me Trinity, the first of a successful series of films he has seen together Bud Spencer e Terence Hill. The theater, on the other hand, applauds the first, great success of Gigi Proietti thanks to comedy Alleluja Good people, Together with Renato rascel.

Claudio Baglioni, 1982 arrives, You will have a son and… a Mundial

Returning to Claudio Baglioni, exactly ten years later, in 1982, a unique and extraordinary event, such as the birth of his son, gave rise to another masterpiece. The song was titled You will have and in an instant it became a classic of his repertoire. John Baglioni he was born the 19 May 1982, in a few days it will be an important birthday for him, that of his first forty years.

The song celebrating that happy event came out in time to become a summer classic 1982. The summer of World Spaniard won by the national team led by Enzo Bearzot. A national team that in the memory of many has the face of the unforgettable Paolo Rossi and the President of the Republic, Sandro Pertini, our first fan at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.

A song, a historical period and away the memories that become like cherries, one leads to another, in an uninterrupted chain of thoughts, of indelible emotions, veiled by that poignant nostalgia that looks a lot like the full, and melancholy, awareness that certain emotions they will never live again.

Article by Stefano Vori

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