Sanremo 2011
The sixty-first Italian Song Festival aired from 15 to 19 February 2011 and was conducted by Gianni Morandi together with Belén Rodríguez, Elisabetta Canalis and the comic duo Luca and Paolo. At the end of the singing competition, the ranking was as follows:
Winning song: "Call me love again”, Played by Roberto Vecchioni;
Second classified: "Will arrive”, Played by Modà with Emma;
Third classified: "Amanda is free”, Played by Al Bano.
The songwriter and Vecchioni return to Sanremo
Sanremo Festival, 1973. Roberto Vecchioni appears for the first time on TV. "We now have a high school teacher who has only been songwriting so far and I think this is his first television appearance. The title of his song is 'The man who plays dice for the sky', author Vecchioni, conducts the maestro Parisini, sings Roberto Vecchioni". With these words Gabriella Farinon introduced the singer-songwriter to her television debut. The song he presented was dedicated to his father.
"Before winning Sanremo ten years ago I went as a young man, in '73, with a song dedicated to my dad,that he was a very different man from all people. My father didn't teach me anything, he made me laugh. Where Dad came in he lit up and made women fall in love, he didn't teach me who knows what, but he enjoyed it. The day before graduation he took me to Paris at the Moulin Rouge. I called him Aldo, not dad".
Sanremo after almost 40 years
After 38 years Roberto Vecchioni returns to Sanremo, at the Ariston Theater. Since then, almost forty years of life, divided between school and concerts, Latin and Greek classics and recording studios. Many happy moments, but also moments that are not easy to live, let alone to tell. "I'm fine, I've been through all the bad moments in life trying to move on, I have had many, many, I remember them with a smile but I have had many, lost friends, people who have gone, physical and psychological pains ".
The title of the song that will give him the victory is "Call me love again". A song of hope, which gives hope. A song that brings back, on the stage of the Ariston, the song of the author, the one that has always been a counterpoint to the Italian singing tradition. That author's song that he never loved race Sanremo, with its humiliating eliminations and the less competent popular vote. The passionate interpretation of Vecchioni enhances the lyrics of the song and when the PFM, in the evening dedicated to duets, to accompany the great Milanese singer-songwriter, destiny is sealed. Victory will be his.
Vecchioni, Sanremo, the pandemic and the empty theater
“The audience is 99 percent, it's the emotion that comes and goes, there's no such thing as singing to an empty audience. Then sing alone in your room, it's the same thing. Singing is a rite, a rite in which everyone participates. Sanremo itself is a ritual that must be reproduced in the same way, with the same things, with the same people. Rather than not having people, it is better not to, move it to July or August, in my opinion, because it must be done with people ”.
Roberto Vecchioni and his "Lights at San Siro"
Roberto Vecchioni's masterpiece written by four hands with Andrew Lo Vecchio. year of production 1971. Francesco Guccini, a great friend of Vecchioni, after having sung it during an edition of the Tenco Prize, will confess that he would have wanted to write it himself. It is the song that recalls youth, a finished love, with all the nostalgic sadness that it carries with it. Remembering the happy moments lived together, a yesterday that now seems very far away, with the final plea to his Milan
But give me my six hundred backMy twenties and a girl you knowMilan sorry, I was jokingLights at San Siro will no longer turn on
Track taken from "Lights in San Siro"
Speaking of Lights at San Siro, Vecchioni's thoughts for Andrea Lo Vecchio
Farewell to the musician Andrew Lo Vecchio, who died in Rome at the age of 78. Singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, record producer and television author, he entered the history of Italian pop music as the author of hits such as Luci at San Siro for Roberto Vecchioni, And then… for Mina, Noise for Raffaella Carra e Help me for Thick thick.
Vecchioni welcomes the news of the disappearance of Andrea Lo Vecchio with “A lot of pain, because the collaboration with Andrea was not only fundamental: it represents my youth that I have lost. I wrote that song during my military service immediately after being left by a girl, and I wanted to tell the time when we were making love ”.
“In our collaboration I took care of the lyrics and he thought of the music, and so it happened that time too. But here there was also something extraordinary that explains who Andrea was: I was not yet a member of the Siae, so the song came out with his signature only. Well, as soon as it was possible he spontaneously added me among the authors, and given the success of the song, with the relative copyrights, I don't know how many would have done it. But Andrea was like that ”.
