1980s Francesco Guccini



francesco guccini on stage


the first album released guccini in eighties metropolis, characterised description of cities symbolic value: byzantium, venice, bologna , milan. histories mingle distress caused life in city , symbolic references. album had richer arrangements, saxophones, bass guitars, drums, clarinets, flutes , zufoli. byzantium described guccini fascinating yet oppressive city @ crossroads of 2 continents , 2 eras. song set @ time of emperor justinian (483–565), , there many historical references period, have been explained guccini himself. narrator, filemazio, critics believe fictionalized guccini, senses decadence of civilization , coming of end. song praised critic paolo jachia, described moving , dreamlike . in 1981 guccini co-author, along giorgio gaber, sandro luporini , gian piero alloisio, of musical gli ultimi viaggi di gulliver. eponymous song gulliver included in guccini s next album, guccini, dealt same themes found in metropolis. notable songs in album include shomèr ma mi llailah? ( watchman, of night? , isaiah 21:11), autogrill , love dreamt of, , inutile , narrates day 2 lovers spent in rimini. subsequent tour first in guccini performed backing band; previously, guccini used perform solo, or 1 or 2 guitarists. in 1984 live album fra la via emilia e il west released. included live versions of many of popular songs, recorded @ concert held in piazza maggiore in bologna, in several guests performed alongside guccini: giorgio gaber, paolo conte, nomadi, roberto vecchioni , equipe 84.


in 1987 album signora bovary released. several of songs portray people guccini s life: van loon father, culodritto daughter teresa, , signora bovary himself. other songs include keaton , written friend claudio lolli, , scirocco , award-winning song episode in life of poet adriano spatola, friend of guccini. in 1988 singer-songwriter released live album, ...quasi come dumas..., included of songs sixties, in rearranged version. title homage twenty years after, novel alexandre dumas.








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