Tore Romani

CAREER BEGINNINGS: “I officially debuted in October 1978 at the Seven disco and played there until 1990. But in reality, I started making music a few years earlier when I would play at parties and small gatherings in the beach clubs of Versilia. Among the ‘official’ seaside parties, I particularly remember the evenings at Santa Monica, a venue created from a Spanish galleon from the 1400s that had run aground and been transformed into a club…impossible to forget…who knows how many summer romances or even lasting loves of Florentines from those years were born right there. It was one of the cult venues of Versilia in those years, along with Hop Frog (Jumping Frog). At the time, I was already using 45 rpm records, and I remember that when I started at Seven, I already had quite a collection. Every year the club gave me a budget to spend on buying records of about 10,000 lire per year…45 rpm records cost, to give you a sense of proportion, between 600-800 lire. Incredible when you think about it now.

HITS: “For the entire time I played at Seven, the opening theme was always Wake up Everybody (Aaron Melvin) and the closing one was Moving in all direction (People’s Choice).

MOST PLAYED, I remember: I will survive (and I was surprised when I discovered it wasn’t the lead track on the record, it was actually on the B-side of Gloria Gaynor’s album) Your Love (Once at Seven I played it 7 times in a row. And I remember one evening when a guy from Florence came up to me and said: “Play it for me….”. People loved it)