Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and writer. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics writer. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist.
Fabrizio Cristiano De André was an Italian singer-songwriter and the most-prominent cantautore of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political protest, and French music. He is considered a prominent member of the Genoese School. Because of the success of his music in Italy and its impact on the Italian collective memory, many public places such as roads, squares, and schools in Italy are named after De André.
Giovanni Lindo Ferretti is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and author. He is considered to be one of the founders of Italian punk rock music.
Italian rock is a form of rock music produced primarily in Italy. The music genre has roots in the country as it spread in the early 1960s from the United States with the earliest versions of rock and roll during this period being cover versions or interpretative covers of already existing songs.
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) is an Italian progressive rock band founded in 1970 which continues to the present day. They were the first Italian group to have success internationally. The group recorded five albums with English lyrics between 1973 and 1977. During this period they entered both the British and American charts. They also had several successful European and American tours, playing at the popular Reading Festival in England and on The Midnight Special, a popular national television program in the United States.
Riccardo Cocciante, also known in French-speaking countries and the United States as Richard Cocciante, is an Italian and French singer and songwriter.
Litfiba was an Italian rock band formed in Florence, Italy, in early 1980.
El Diablo is the fourth studio album by the Italian rock band Litfiba. It introduces a more rock sounding in the band's music, which used to be much more new wave influenced until there. It is the first chapter of the "Tetralogy of elements" and it is dedicated to fire.
Terremoto is the fifth studio album by the Italian rock band Litfiba. It is the second chapter of the "Tetralogy of elements", started on "El Diablo". It is dedicated to earth. It was produced by Alberto Pirelli. It is considered one of their most hard rock albums, with many songs featuring socially and politically charged lyrics.
17 RE is the second full-length studio album by the Italian rock band Litfiba and the second part of the "Trilogy of power", as begun with the debut, Desaparecido.
Il Rovescio della Medaglia, or RDM, were an Italian hard rock and symphonic rock band. They are most famous for their symphonic rock piece Contaminazione, released in 1973. It contained four pieces from Bach's Well-tempered Clavier seamlessly integrated with RDM's own music, which often was inspired by rock or hard rock. In 1974 the record was released in an English version, Contamination, with the group's name simplified to RDM, although still written in full on the back of the LP jacket.
Verdena are an Italian rock band originating in Albino, Bergamo. As of February 2015, they have released six full-length albums under Universal Music Group.
CCCP Fedeli alla Linea, officially written CCCP - Fedeli alla Linea, are an Italian band formed in 1982 in Berlin by vocalist Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and guitarist Massimo Zamboni. The band's style is self-defined by the members themselves as "Musica Melodica Emiliana—Punk Filosovietico".
Diaframma is an Italian band, one of the dark wave, gothic Italian acts to come out of Florence during the early 80s along with Litfiba. Diaframma originated from the meeting of punk - though it was starting to decline at the time -, new wave and rock.
Cicciput is a 2003 studio album by Italian rock band Elio e le Storie Tese.
Rockerilla is a monthly Italy-based music and cinema magazine founded in 1978. It has collaborated with, among others, Richard Bertoncelli and Guido Chiesa. According to Federico Guglielmi, Rockerilla was followed by those most passionate about new trends in rock music in the early 1980s.
Sinezamia is an Italian rock band formed in Mantua in 2004.
Timoria were an Italian rock group, active between 1985 and 2003.
Una storia sbagliata is a song written and recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André and co-composed with folk songwriter Massimo Bubola. It was initially released as a single backed with "Titti". Both songs were recorded during the initial sessions for De André's self-titled 1981 album and first released in 1980 as a standalone single. In 1999, "Una storia sbagliata" was re-released within the Fabrizio De André: Opere complete box set. "Titti" had its first CD release in 2005, within the greatest hits and rarities collection In direzione ostinata e contraria.
Il pescatore ["The fisherman"] is a song by Fabrizio De André, with lyrics by himself and music by composers Gian Piero Reverberi and Franco Zauli. Backed with "Marcia nuziale", De André's translation of by Georges Brassens's 1957 song "La marche nuptiale", it was released in 1970 by the Italian branch of Liberty Records as a standalone single, De André's first of only two such releases in his career. It was the first single of De André to enter the Italian singles chart, peaking at the 13th position. Its popularity was significantly boosted by a 1979 live remake, with PFM backing De André in a new rock arrangement.
