He died far from his Bologna, in Montreaux in Switzerland, where he was for a series of concerts. He would have turned 69 on March 4th.
Lucio Dalla, who had just participated in the Sanremo Festival, was one of the most successful Italian songwriters and his career is close to 50 years of artistic activity.
So we want to remember him with some of the most beautiful phrases of his songs, words that hit the heart of each of us, stanzas that remind anyone of a moment, a love, a laugh.
“… He says he was a handsome man and he came, he came from the sea …” he certainly wasn’t a handsome man par excellence, but his lyrics made him wonderful!
“… In my own way I would need caresses too. I need to pray to God. But I will never change my life, in my own way, what I am I wanted … ” One of the most famous stanzas of Piazza Grande, that Piazza in Bologna that he loved so much, as well as his city.
“… Power of opera where every drama has a fake, which with a little make-up and mimicry you can become another, but two eyes that look at you, so close and true, make you forget the words, confuse your thoughts … ” How can we forget Caruso and that terrace facing the Gulf of Sorrento.
“… Meanwhile the fish, from which we all descend, watched curiously, the collective drama of this world, which undoubtedly must have seemed bad to them, and they began to think, in their great sea, how deep the sea is, in their great sea. How deep is the sea! … ” The sea often returns in Dalla’s songs, as something essential, something that seems to hide the meaning of life.
But Dalla was also a songwriter with irreverent irony, unique … as in “Desperate, erotic stomp”:
“… They saw you drinking at a fountain that wasn’t me They saw you stripped in the morning, naughty mischievous. While with me you did not undress even at night, and it was a blow, God, what a blow … “
Friendship is another topic dear to Dalla… and therefore… “Dear friend, I am writing to you so I get a little distracted and since you are much stronger I will write to you. Since you left there is a big news, the old year is over now, but something is still wrong here … “
Oh yes, dear Lucio, now that you are no longer there, something is wrong here … we are left with all your songs, the emotions you gave us and that for each of us will make you immortal. We could go on quoting songs, verses and emotions given to us by the great Dalla, but we stop here … because we are a little lost now that he is gone …
If you allow me I would like to close this post with a phrase from Dalla’s song that I personally love madly “if she is a female she will be called Futura. His name said this night is already scary, it will be different as beautiful as a star will be you in miniature “.
Goodbye Lucio and thank you… for everything you have left us. Now we just have to wait “for the light to come back, to hear a voice… let’s wait without fear, tomorrow”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ1MdaYRkpY