Anzio paid tribute to Lucio Battisti with the great concert of Villa Adele, 29 August 2008. The Formula 3 and the Gandharvas have played in an exciting concert that over again, ten years after his death, the great successes of Baptists. "I return in mind," the fifth tribute to singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti, is organized by Esedra that will donate to charity the proceeds of the evening. "With the proceeds of the event - says the president of the Exedra, Fabrizio Mastroddi - also support the Andos and the band of our City, we hope to carry on an important project to promote diving courses for children with disabilities in our area. " The Formula 3 is the historical group of Lucio Battisti. In the '70s represented an important step for the Italian music for rock and "progressive." The only band that has accompanied Lucio Battisti in his rare live performances, the Formula 3 debut album in '69 with the 45 "This crazy feeling," followed by the debut album "Dies Irae", produced by Baptists. In '71, the Formula 3 is presented in Sanremo with "mad rush", following other unforgettable songs as interpreted "Yellow sun black sun" and "Yet I am forgotten you." In '74 the band split in '90 to recompose, the year that gives the title track "1990" which contains, in revised version, the most important achievements of Lucio Battisti, among them "It's not Francis." In '92 the return to Sanremo with the song "A fragment rose" and in '94, again in Sanremo, with "The house of the emperor." The Formula 3 is at this time engaged in record and concert to represent the "arm rock" by Lucio Battisti. The band is now formed by Tony Cicco (drums and vocals), Alberto Radius the guitar and keyboards Cyrus Bito. I Dik Dik: Pietruccio (Peter Montalbetti) and Lally (Giancarlo Sbriziolo) attend the same elementary school, live in the same neighborhood in Milan, later know Pepe (Erminio Salvaderi) and true friendship, from an early age. Then comes the music. Children are not art, but this is enough to cement them artistically even to this day since then we will see them always inseparable. Before becoming Dik Dik are Dreamers, then sharks. Fortified and full of courage, ready to jump, they manage to get a hearing at the Casa Ricordi record company, where, during a trial met the then unknown Lucio Battisti, who was also there for the same reason. Obtained, with Lucio, a writing and cooperate both with Mogol (Giulio Rapetti). The single, 1-2-3, their debut was premiered by Gianni Boncompagni a yellow flag. It is a good start. Thus was born the group - made up of Pietruccio Montalbetti, Sergio Panno (drums), Mario Totaro (keyboards), Lally (Giancarlo Sbriziolo - vocals and guitar) and Pepe Erminio Salvaderi (guitar and backing vocals) - who joins the new friendship 'art that everyone has within themselves. The partnership, Battisti-Mogol-Dik Dik, lasts for seven years, during which scored many hits record: California Dreaming, The world is with us, I look at you and I see my son, The wind, I sell the house, Dolce of days, if I were a carpenter, I stop here, the first day of spring, no light. The young Lucio Battisti took his first steps in music learning to play the guitar. He moved with his parents in Rome in 1947, and after graduating in electrical engineering in 1962 and a period of apprenticeship with the Mattatori in Naples and later with the Satyrs, he moved to Milan, where he joins the League, the group that accompanies Tony Dallara, led by Roby Matano. Baptists will live the rest of his life in Milan, the first in the popular district of Giovanni Bellini, and moved in the last years of his life in a villa in Molteno, in Brianza. Lucio made his debut as soloist with the 45 that included a pound and Sweet For the day, with modest results sales, and today the disc is highly regarded in the collector circuit. At a time when the singing of love and feelings seemed to decline in favor of direct political engagement of singers and songwriters, Battisti goes against the trend, gaining an audience that these issues will discover between the lines of the texts of His songs, a couple of daily life neglected by traditional love song. In that year, he decided to do more public performances, refusing to participate in the Sanremo Festival and Canzonissima, events which he believed were not appropriate for a discussion of artistic quality, so much so that there will bring more of his songs even as. As for the concert, after a brief tour with the Formula Three, which also had considerable success, decide not to keep more than one, indicating its intention to carve out a space for private life and his own artistic research, which he said would have been otherwise sacrificed to run "from one plane to another." You do not leave more photos - if not the photographer's Number One, Cesare Monti, and almost exclusively for the album covers - and develop a more artistic and human synergy with the albums, since then until 1980 no longer write lyrics for other interpreters. The 1976 ended with two shocking news: Battisti married with his girlfriend and, coincident with this announcement, it said his final retirement from the Italian public. The last tour was with the Formula Three, after which the singer announced in an interview: "I will not talk anymore, because an artist must communicate with the public only through his work." After a long illness, perhaps because of being disengaged from public life, Lucio Battisti dies San Paolo hospital in Milan September 9, 1998 at the age of 55 years, funerals, celebratisi to Molteno, where he is buried, were admitted as soon as 20 people, including Mughal, confirming the consolidation of the association at least human. His tomb is very simple, it remains a constant place of pilgrimage. The disappearance of Lucio Battisti has aroused considerable sympathy, and at the same time, awakened a true "cult" for the artist and his music and worship that never seems to end and that closely resembles what was found for major international artists such as Elvis Presley, or Beatles after their breakup. Even beyond his vast production, both directly in songs he scored, both assigned songs to other artists, Lucio Battisti is an artist who has left a significant mark in contemporary Italian music. Compositional style of Baptists, which is characterized by its ability to skillfully combine the Italian tradition with the latest sounds from overseas (from the Rhythm & Blues from him the favorite until the disco music) together with the particular use of the voice, "a hoarse voice" used almost as an instrument by an artist who has always humbly recognized his vocal limitations, gave a turn to the landscape of Italian song. The evening of Anzio has recreated the magical moments of the year and music by Lucio Battisti, first, with a wonderful surprise when the band "City of Anzio" was presented to the full force of Villa Adele front of the stage and performed "Water clear blue water, enjoying the public acceptance that has filled up to capacity, the theater. The show began with a presentation by Francesco Cavalli, speaker radio Aeneas, of the "Exedra" which has the praise for organizing the event. Following the entry into the Formula 3 scene that, for over an hour, have delighted the audience with several songs by Lucio, rocking version. Immediately after the stage took place on the stage Dik Dik with two hours of music dedicated to the legendary Battisti. These "boys" of 60-70 years have made me feel younger their fans came from all over the region, has affected all their verve. Everyone danced and sang the best songs of Italian music, the ones that bear the signature of Battisti and Mogol, in fact. The evening ended with fireworks and the two bands available to sign autographs and be photographed with fans. Perfect the security services. Meet the 2009 edition.
