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Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "il Molleggiato" because of his dancing.
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 a very 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. It demonstrates the band's complex musicianship and talent as well as showcasing versions of songs which are often greatly modified from the original album versions. The album contains versions of tracks 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.
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. Recently, they were still active, playing live in 2001 and 2008 at NEARfest. Their charismatic frontman, Francesco Di Giacomo, died in 2014.
Massimo Ranieri is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and 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".
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 and music journalist. He is the Artistic Director of the MITO SettembreMusica festival. He writes for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. His music is published exclusively by Breitkopf & Härtel.
Veleno is an album by Italian singer Mina, issued in 2002.
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.
Old Loves Die Hard is the fourth album by German progressive rock group Triumvirat. It was the first recording they did as a four men band, their first three albums were done as a trio. It was the first with British singer Barry Palmer and bassist Werner Frangenberg, both replacing their previous singer-bassist Helmut Kollen. It was also the last album for original drummer and lyricist Hans Bathelt.
Dawn is the fifth studio album by the German rock band Eloy released in 1976. Much like their previous album, Power and the Passion, their fifth studio release follows a similar story format. The concept tells the tale of a man who after a sudden death comes back as a ghost. He tries to pass on his newly acquired knowledge to his loved one. The album ends with his dissolving into light, closing on the quote, "Nous sommes du soleil".
Ivan Della Mea was an Italian novelist, journalist, singer-songwriter and political activist. His family name was "Della Mea"
Harmonium En Tournée is a live album by Harmonium, consisting of a live performance of the studio album L'Heptade, recorded live in Vancouver, 1977. It was released in 1980 by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada's (SRC) music distribution arm, Les Disques SRC, and CBS Disques. After selling tens of thousands of copies, unauthorised by the band, CBS stopped distribution. After 20 years of being copied exclusively illegally by cassette, a foreign unauthorised CD version started being sold, which prompted the distribution of a legal CD version in 2002.
Europa 7 HD is an Italian group of channels aired since 11 October 2010. It's one of the first broadcasters in the world to use the DVB-T2 technology, after United Kingdom's channels BBC HD, ITV HD and Channel 4 HD.
Homo homini lupus is the second album by Italian progressive rock band Locanda delle Fate. It was recorded more than 20 years after the first album of the band, taking advantage of the progressive-rock "revivalist" trend that emerged in Italy in the 1990s.
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.
Giuliano Taviani is an Italian composer.
Mario Benedetti was an Italian poet. He was among the founders of the contemporary poetry magazines Scarto minimo and Arsenal littératures.
