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Adriano Celentano

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Someone posted this earlier today on a Facebook group I belong to & I think it is brilliant & bonkers.

For your delectation & delight.

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  2. He’s a clever chap. I’ve posted that before. He wanted to write a song which was in nonsense but which sounded like it was in English. He wrote words which sounded to him like the lyrics of pop songs in a language he didn’t speak.

    Think that clip comes from an Italian tv special. The woman who stands up in class is/was a noted actor, and I think his wife.

    There’s a really modern doof-doof remix out that’s fun.

    Ol-right?

  3. The man’s a dang fool, I tells ya.
    David Bowie thought so too. Celentano interviewed Bowie in a cringe-fest television interview, treating him as though he were a font of wisdom, asking questions like “Is there a future?” and “What should be done to end hunger in the world?”. Bowie soon got fed up with his moronic line of questioning.
    At a press conference afterwards, Bowie said of Celentano: “I understood perfectly what he was telling me. I think he is an idiot. But I was there to play my song. In any case, I don’t think they’ll invite me back again.”

  4. Yes, that interview is cringeworthy, but hey: it’s TV! And not much worse than TV host Johnny Cash interviewing Eric Clapton or Joni Mitchell (I don’t have to mention OGWT or Live Aid, do I).

    But Adriano Celentano is a hero (listen to Ian Dury at this point….), and a national treasure in Italy.
    Something like Cliff Richard, John Cleese, Joe Strummer and Michael Caine rolled into one, only with better music. He recorded the first real rock’n’roll records in Italy, had his own TV shows over several decades, was a big movie star, and still releases relevant (and quite good) albums. And he never listened to “the Man” or whatever counted as politics in his country. During the Berlusconi era he had a hugely popular TV show (“RockPolitik”) where he constantly attacked, de-mystified and made fun of the Berlusconi gang.

    Anyway, here’s Addy with the Italian take on flower power:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkyya61GRGI&list=RDfkyya61GRGI&start_radio=1&t=93

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