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Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed Il Molleggiato because of his energetic dancing.
Talking Book is the fifteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, and musician Stevie Wonder, released on October 27, 1972, by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. This album and Music of My Mind, released earlier the same year, are generally considered to mark the start of Wonder's "classic period". The sound of the album is sharply defined by Wonder's use of keyboards and synthesizers.
Resident Alien is the debut studio album by the English rock band Spacehog. Released by Sire Records and Elektra Records on 24 October 1995, the album was certified gold on 29 July 1996 and included the hit single "In the Meantime", which reached the top of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US, and remained there for four weeks. Most of Resident Alien's basic tracks were recorded live in a barn in Woodstock, New York. It was intended to give the album the immediacy of live room recording.
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.
Playing the Fool - The Official Live is a live album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant which was released in 1977. The album contains versions of songs from all of the band's studio albums to that point except for Acquiring the Taste. The original UK LP came with a 12-page booklet that has not been reproduced in any of the CD editions.
Cervello ("Brain") is a band from Italy.
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso is an Italian rock band. A popular progressive rock band in the 1970s, they continued making music in the 1980s and 1990s. They were still active, playing live in 2001 and 2008 at NEARfest. Their charismatic frontman, Francesco Di Giacomo, died in 2014.
Giovanni Calone, known professionally as Massimo Ranieri, is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and theatre director.
Forse le lucciole non si amano più is the debut LP (1977) of Italian progressive rock band La Locanda delle Fate. The CD reissue was released 1994 with the bonus track "New York".
White Flames is the first solo album by British blues guitarist Snowy White, released in 1983. It includes the song "Bird of Paradise", which reached No. 6 on the UK charts when it was released as a single.
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.
Nicola Campogrande is an Italian composer. His music is published exclusively by Breitkopf & Härtel. He's also active as music journalist, writing for the newspaper Corriere della Sera, and as radio host for RAI Radio3.
Storia di un minuto is the first album of the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi. It was recorded in Milan and released by the Numero Uno division of RCA Records in Italy. The album topped the Italian album charts after one week from the release – the first time occurrence in the Italian charts up until then.
Ivan Della Mea was an Italian novelist, journalist, singer-songwriter and political activist.
Europa 7 HD is an Italian group of television channels aired since October 11, 2010. It is one of the first broadcasters worldwide to use DVB-T2 technology, after United Kingdom's channels BBC HD, ITV HD and Channel 4 HD.
Fly Channel is a generalist television channel broadcast by Italian broadcaster Europa 7 HD on digital terrestrial television in Italy.
"Non più andrai" is an aria for bass from Mozart's 1786 opera The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492. The Italian libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784). It is sung by Figaro at the end of the first act.
Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione is the first and only studio album by the Italian progressive rock band Alusa Fallax. It was released in 1974.
Mario Benedetti was an Italian poet. He was among the founders of the contemporary poetry magazines Scarto minimo and Arsenal littératures.
Mao, stage name of Mauro Gurlino is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, radio and television host and actor.
