Youth and musical beginnings Francesco Guccini

francesco guccini singing la locomotiva

guccini s first job teacher @ boarding school in pesaro, fired after month , half. worked journalist @ gazzetta di modena 2 years. in april 1960, guccini interviewed domenico modugno, had won 2 consecutive sanremo festivals. inspired guccini write l antisociale , first composition singer-songwriter.

in 1958 guccini guitarist , vocalist in group first called hurricanes, snakers , gatti. group included pier farri (drums), later become guccini s producer; victor sogliani (saxophone), future member of equipe 84; , franco fini storchi (guitar). guccini wrote first songs while in snakers, in style inspired everly brothers , peppino di capri. group performed 2 years, touring around northern italy , switzerland. in 1961 guccini family moved bologna, , francesco enrolled @ university of bologna study foreign languages. next year undertook mandatory military service, experience described substantially positive . when returned bologna, guccini asked join band equipe 84, declined in order continue studies. later quit university before taking degree (he conferred degree honoris causa in science education in 2002). band cantacronache important influence in guccini s artistic growth, bob dylan.