Images (Lucio Battisti album)

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Studio album by
Lucio Battisti
ReleasedSeptember 1977
Genre Easy listening
Length34:20
Label RCA Victor
Producer Lucio Battisti, Bones Howe, Joe Reisman
Lucio Battisti chronology
Io tu noi tutti
(1977)		Images
(1977)		 Una donna per amico
(1978)

Images is an album by the Italian singer and songwriter Lucio Battisti. It was released in September 1977 by RCA Victor.

Italy republic in Southern Europe

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a European country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Italian Alps and surrounded by several islands. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and traversed along its length by the Apennines, Italy has a largely temperate seasonal climate. The country covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and shares open land borders with France, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in the Tunisian Sea (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the fourth-most populous member state of the European Union.

Lucio Battisti Italian singer-songwriter

Lucio Battisti was an influential Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting.

Contents

The album is a collection of five songs from his previous album, Io tu noi tutti , and two of his classic songs ("Il mio canto libero" and "La canzone del sole"). All of the songs were translated into English by Peter Powell.

<i>Io tu noi tutti</i> 1977 studio album by Lucio Battisti

Io tu noi tutti is the tenth album by the Italian singer and songwriter Lucio Battisti. It was released in March 1977 by Numero Uno.

Il mio canto libero (song) 1972 single by Lucio Battisti

"Il mio canto libero" is a song written by Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti and lyricist Mogol. The song was recorded by Battisti for the album of the same title, and released as a single in November 1972 for Mogol's recording label Numero Uno. The song was a commercial success in Italy, topping the Musica e dischi singles chart in 1973 and becoming the third best-selling single of the year. During the following years, it was covered by several artists, and it became a classic of Italian popular music.

Critical reception

In the United States, the album was considered by critics a relative failure: Richard Williams, on the Melody Maker , wrote of a "watered-down Battisti". [1]

Richard Williams is a British music and sports journalist.

<i>Melody Maker</i> historical British weekly pop/rock music newspaper (1926-2000)

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born composer, publisher Lawrence Wright; the first editor was Edgar Jackson. In 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.

They criticized mostly Battisti's poor fluency in the English language, the flawed translation of lyrics, and also the disco-inspired arrangements (that, although pleasant, were not able to convey the spirit and all the nuances of the original songs).[ citation needed ]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Mogol and Peter Powell, all music composed by Lucio Battisti.

Mogol (lyricist) Italian lyricist, record producer, writer

Giulio Rapetti, in art Mogol, is an Italian music lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with Lucio Battisti, Gianni Bella, Adriano Celentano and Mango.

  1. "To Feel in Love" – 5:09
  2. "A Song to Feel Alive" – 4:39
  3. "The Only Thing I've Lost" – 5:02
  4. "Keep on Cruising" – 4:36
  5. "The Sun Song" – 5:17
  6. "There's Never Been a Moment" – 4:47
  7. "Only" – 4:47

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References

  1. ↑ Silvio Sabatini (1998). Lucio Battisti (in Italian). Gremese editore. p. 49. ISBN   88-7742-335-8.
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