One of the biggest personalities in the history of Italian music, both as an interpreter of his music, both as a writer for other artists, a career that has resulted in over twenty-five million sales discs. Lucio Battisti was born in March '43, in the province of Rieti (Poggio Bustone), a child is brought in Rome in 1950, where the family has decided to move.
After receiving his diploma in electrical engineering in '62, infatuated by the music and the instrument of the guitar, entering the business as a musician with various groups and then moved to Milan, joining the League, support Tony Dallara complex. The young Lucio
proves to be a real miracle, manages to get noticed in 1965 by Christine Leroux, talent-scout for the label Ricordi, which gives him the 'fatal' meeting with lyricist Giulio Rapetti, in art Mogol. The debut solo
then began with the 45 of 1966 which included "Per una lira" and "One Sweet Day", with modest results, especially since che oggi il disco gode di grande considerazione nel circuito collezionistico .
Le due canzoni vennero poi portate al successo rispettivamente dai Ribelli di Demetrio Stratos e dai Dik Dik .
Nel 1967 Mogol e Battisti sono gli autori del brano "29 settembre" che , interpretato dall'Equipe 84 , si classificò al primo posto nella hit parade .
Sempre nel 1967 sono ancora una volta , i due sono autori di un altro brano "Nel cuore , nell'anima" interpretato e portato al successo sempre dall'Equipe 84 , e per l'ex Camaleonti Riki Maiocchi , scrissero la celebre "Uno in più" , canzone modello per la 'linea verde' con cui Mogol intendeva rinnovare la Musica Leggera Italian.
As for the solo career, Battisti released his second single, "Luisa Rossi / Era", but did not achieve success. Battisti
In 1968 he recorded "Prisoner of the world", but is the most successful track on the back, "Balla Linda", a melodic song, but already 'experimental' fees for the music of that period, in which Baptist Convention rejects the rhymes kissed for the lyrics, in agreement with the albums. With
"Balla Linda" is in the Cantagiro, which ranks fourth, entering for the first time with a song he played, in the standings. In January 1969
Lucio part for the first and only time as a singer in the Sanremo Festival 1969 with the song "adventure", which succeeds in combining the traditional Italian melody with the atmosphere and the sounds of Rhythm 'n' Blues, in particular with a characteristic and strong horn section, it is no coincidence that the foreign interpreter he is joined Wilson Pickett.
The track in ninth place in the final standings, but this participation in Sanremo greatly increased his popularity and always in correspondence with the Festival, released "An adventure / It is Frank."
In 1969 he released his first album, entitled "Lucio Battisti", a collection of songs previously released singles in the previous six songs already released versions of other groups and singers here interpreted by Baptists, which is followed by the second single of the year, "blue water, clear water / Ten girls."
participated for the first time in a program, 'Special For You' by Renzo Arbore, then broadcast on RAI's second channel.
In the transmission is launched the song "blue water clear water", which will become a summer hit in the summer of 1969, won the Festivalbar of that year.
During the summer running his first tour, consists of 21 evenings and during the summer along with Mogol Battisti founded an independent record label, the Numero Uno.
In this project they are involved in Formula 3, Toby Lightman, Edward Jackson and other artists Although Baptists can not even go to the label because of contractual obligations that bind him to remember.
October 1969 published the third single of the year, "I think of returns / 7 and 40" and between the individual and public that year, this is the one that meets the greatest success: it is the 11th biggest selling single 1969 and also comes in first place in the Hit Parade.
Despite his success as a performer, his work as a writer for other singers continues with success: his songs are very successful as "this crazy feeling," entrusted to Formula Three, "Mamma Mia", entrusted to the Chameleons, "The Paradise of Life (a song written in 1968 by Battisti and Mogol for Girl 77 (but that does not get any success), taken by the British group of Amen Corner, with the title "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice", reaching number one on the UK charts.
Patty Pravo, on a trip in the United Kingdom, is fascinated by the song of Amen Corner, unaware that it was originally written by Battisti and Mogol, and decided to make a cover with the title "Paradise", making the beautiful folk song even in Italy.
The '70s, especially in the first half, are the years when Lucio Battisti arrives at the height of popularity and success.
His albums are always among the first places in the charts in 1973 and , caso raro nella storia discografica nazionale , riesce a conquistare il primo ed il secondo posto in classifica (con "Il mio canto libero" ed "Il nostro caro angelo") , distanziando opere di respiro e successo internazionali come "The Dark Side of the Moon" dei Pink Floyd .
Partecipa per la seconda volta a 'Speciale per voi' di Renzo Arbore e durante il dialogo con il pubblico in sala ribadisce di non essere un cantante politicamente impegnato ed ancora una volta viene criticata la sua voce , decide così di troncare bruscamente la discussione .
Nel giugno 1970 esce il singolo "Fiori rosa fiori di pesco/Il tempo di morire" , che contiene le due canzoni interpretate in anteprima a Speciale per voi .
Dal 21 giugno al 26 luglio of that year, at the initiative of the Mogul, the two embark on a journey on horseback from Milan to Rome, the journey will be told by Baptists in three articles on TV smiles.
Just got back from the trip began preparations for the summer tour that will take the Formula 3: ten dates made between 'the other world' of Rimini, 'compass' of Viareggio and the local Gino Paoli in Sestri Levante.
will remain on his last tour. In October, the public
single "Anna / Emotions", which will be followed in November '70 the concept album "Love and not love," an album rather experimental and hard to understand (half of the songs are instrumental and conducive to the Progressive Rock) , So that you remember to put it aside, instead releasing another collection, "Emotions", which is found in the stereo version already published excerpts from the individual, this time without even a novel.
With this commercial operation by Ricordi reports of Baptists with the record company come to an end.
In 1971 Battisti released "Thoughts and words / With you I'm fine."
This year, the press began to lament the decreasing availability of Baptists to be interviewed and photographed, so April 27, 1971 he performed at the Press Club of Milan, especially for journalists and their families, accompanied on guitar by Mario Lavezzi and Mogul, in order to make it clear that it is not personal hatred, but only of his desire to be judged solely on his music.
In July '71, finally, the public remember the album "Love and not love," along with the single "My God no / was" immediately censured for alleged erotic allusions.
July 31 is recorded, in the studios of RAI, 'Together', a program designed by Music Mogul, where artists performed live many members (or related) to Number One: Lucio Battisti, Dik Dik, the Flora Cement and fauna, the PFM, Mia Martini, Mauro Pagani, Adriano Pappalardo, Formula 3, Toby Lightman and Edward Linkage, which will then be forwarded in September '71, with an excellent outcome, especially among younger audiences.
contract expires in September that linked him to the discs Remember, it is then free to go to Number One.
published his first single for Number One, "The song of sunshine / also for you," another key track.
In April '72, Baptists participate in the TV 10 Theater, presented by the great Alberto Lupo, sings a preview of "The Gardens of March" playing in duet with Mina playing a medley, then rightly considered one of the most important exhibitions in the history of Italian music.
This will be the last television appearance of Baptists in Italia .
Pubblica così il suo primo album per la Numero Uno , "Umanamente uomo: il sogno" , album che sarà il secondo più venduto del 1972 .
Battisti inizia a rifiutare interviste e fotografie e , rifiutando un'intervista per il settimanale Sogno, dichiara di preferire l'olio di ricino alla televisione , dichiarazione che oltre ad inasprire i toni verso i media , gli costerà la già preesistente 'etichettatura' destrorsa e di 'simpatizzante' dell'allora MSI Destra Nazionale , sia da parte del pubblico che da alcuni suoi colleghi , tra cui il compianto Pierangelo Bertoli , opinioni ed affermazioni che Battisti mai smentirà nè confermerà .
A novembre del 1972 , pubblica l'album "Il mio free song, accompanied by the single "My hand free / Confusion", best-selling album of 1973.
in 1973 released the album "Our dear angel" preceded by the single "Cherry Hill / Our dear angel." arrangements, for the first time, appearing with some important electronic instruments, and is reduced by the presence of strings and horns, inflated in the work of previous years.
At the end of 1974, after a trip to South America with the albums, Public Latin soul, "perhaps his most complex and hard disk, an attempted fusion of latin sounds with the Progressive sound, an album that includes songs long and extensive use of synthesizers, hard rhythmic and tribal at times, where the lyrics, sung by the 'low', are becoming more cryptic.
Although difficult to address the new proposal (almost any song remained in the collective memory), the disc gets exceptional sales and remained on the charts for many weeks, to record an album of Baptists.
In 1975, after a trip to the USA, Battisti absorb new musical style and recording technique, especially the sounds of disco music, so the RCA suggests to make an album with his greatest hits sung in English, but the 'artist does not agree and the next year the public longplaying "The drums, bass, etc." accompanied by single "Still you / Where did you get that bush," another hit from the many sales.
After two years, in '77, publishes another 33 laps, "I you us all", with the single "Loving each other a bit '/ Yes, travel, drive along the lines of the previous year, with a few main points of the production of Battisti second period.
The relationship with the albums is after, several ups and downs, and at loggerheads after the publication of a collection in English, "Images", published again in '77 for the RCA, without achieving the results hoped to break the foreign market.
follow two other important and successful album, "A woman friend" of 1978 and "A gloomy day" which opens the 80 , Both for Number One.
definitely ended the relationship with the albums, silently and without arguments, Baptists in 1982 released the album "Already", a disc totally 'foreign', with pieces of short duration, fully electronic without the use of strings and guitars, which see themselves as co-author of the texts that Velez, in reality his wife Grazia Letizia Veronese.
This album represents a radical change and the transition to a new phase for the artist Battisti.
In the second half of the 80s began working with Pasquale Panella, in this period, he published five albums musically diverse and advanced, which continues through the music research, dealing with different kinds e tecniche di registrazione , tutti dalla grafica minimale e completamente priva di colore .
I testi scritti con Panella sono molto diversi , di difficile comprensione , pieni di giochi di parole e doppi sensi , gli album sono privi del minimo battage pubblicitario , in perfetta sintonia con il suo personaggio , ormai 'assente' verbalmente e visivamente .
Nonostante tutto saranno accolti dal pubblico 'fedelissimo' , ma con un successo di volta in volta minore e dalla critica con pareri estremamente discordi .
Nel marzo 1986 Battisti torna sul mercato discografico con l'album "Don Giovanni" , il terzo album più venduto dell'anno .
Nell'ottobre 1988 esce l'album "L'apparenza" , dove su richiesta di Panella stesso , Starting with this album, the technique of writing songs is reversed, with panel that writes the lyrics and Baptists who later wrote the music above;
in September 1990 he published "The Bride West," published by CBS (and not the number One, as had happened to the previous albums).
As for the solo career, Battisti released his second single, "Luisa Rossi / Era", but did not achieve success. Battisti
In 1968 he recorded "Prisoner of the world", but is the most successful track on the back, "Balla Linda", a melodic song, but already 'experimental' fees for the music of that period, in which Baptist Convention rejects the rhymes kissed for the lyrics, in agreement with the albums. With
"Balla Linda" is in the Cantagiro, which ranks fourth, entering for the first time with a song he played, in the standings. In January 1969
Lucio part for the first and only time as a singer in the Sanremo Festival 1969 with the song "adventure", which succeeds in combining the traditional Italian melody with the atmosphere and the sounds of Rhythm 'n' Blues, in particular with a characteristic and strong horn section, it is no coincidence that the foreign interpreter he is joined Wilson Pickett.
The track in ninth place in the final standings, but this participation in Sanremo greatly increased his popularity and always in correspondence with the Festival, released "An adventure / It is Frank."
In 1969 he released his first album, entitled "Lucio Battisti", a collection of songs previously released singles in the previous six songs already released versions of other groups and singers here interpreted by Baptists, which is followed by the second single of the year, "blue water, clear water / Ten girls."
participated for the first time in a program, 'Special For You' by Renzo Arbore, then broadcast on RAI's second channel.
In the transmission is launched the song "blue water clear water", which will become a summer hit in the summer of 1969, won the Festivalbar of that year.
During the summer running his first tour, consists of 21 evenings and during the summer along with Mogol Battisti founded an independent record label, the Numero Uno.
In this project they are involved in Formula 3, Toby Lightman, Edward Jackson and other artists Although Baptists can not even go to the label because of contractual obligations that bind him to remember.
October 1969 published the third single of the year, "I think of returns / 7 and 40" and between the individual and public that year, this is the one that meets the greatest success: it is the 11th biggest selling single 1969 and also comes in first place in the Hit Parade.
Despite his success as a performer, his work as a writer for other singers continues with success: his songs are very successful as "this crazy feeling," entrusted to Formula Three, "Mamma Mia", entrusted to the Chameleons, "The Paradise of Life (a song written in 1968 by Battisti and Mogol for Girl 77 (but that does not get any success), taken by the British group of Amen Corner, with the title "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice", reaching number one on the UK charts.
Patty Pravo, on a trip in the United Kingdom, is fascinated by the song of Amen Corner, unaware that it was originally written by Battisti and Mogol, and decided to make a cover with the title "Paradise", making the beautiful folk song even in Italy.
The '70s, especially in the first half, are the years when Lucio Battisti arrives at the height of popularity and success.
His albums are always among the first places in the charts in 1973 and , caso raro nella storia discografica nazionale , riesce a conquistare il primo ed il secondo posto in classifica (con "Il mio canto libero" ed "Il nostro caro angelo") , distanziando opere di respiro e successo internazionali come "The Dark Side of the Moon" dei Pink Floyd .
Partecipa per la seconda volta a 'Speciale per voi' di Renzo Arbore e durante il dialogo con il pubblico in sala ribadisce di non essere un cantante politicamente impegnato ed ancora una volta viene criticata la sua voce , decide così di troncare bruscamente la discussione .
Nel giugno 1970 esce il singolo "Fiori rosa fiori di pesco/Il tempo di morire" , che contiene le due canzoni interpretate in anteprima a Speciale per voi .
Dal 21 giugno al 26 luglio of that year, at the initiative of the Mogul, the two embark on a journey on horseback from Milan to Rome, the journey will be told by Baptists in three articles on TV smiles.
Just got back from the trip began preparations for the summer tour that will take the Formula 3: ten dates made between 'the other world' of Rimini, 'compass' of Viareggio and the local Gino Paoli in Sestri Levante.
will remain on his last tour. In October, the public
single "Anna / Emotions", which will be followed in November '70 the concept album "Love and not love," an album rather experimental and hard to understand (half of the songs are instrumental and conducive to the Progressive Rock) , So that you remember to put it aside, instead releasing another collection, "Emotions", which is found in the stereo version already published excerpts from the individual, this time without even a novel.
With this commercial operation by Ricordi reports of Baptists with the record company come to an end.
In 1971 Battisti released "Thoughts and words / With you I'm fine."
This year, the press began to lament the decreasing availability of Baptists to be interviewed and photographed, so April 27, 1971 he performed at the Press Club of Milan, especially for journalists and their families, accompanied on guitar by Mario Lavezzi and Mogul, in order to make it clear that it is not personal hatred, but only of his desire to be judged solely on his music.
In July '71, finally, the public remember the album "Love and not love," along with the single "My God no / was" immediately censured for alleged erotic allusions.
July 31 is recorded, in the studios of RAI, 'Together', a program designed by Music Mogul, where artists performed live many members (or related) to Number One: Lucio Battisti, Dik Dik, the Flora Cement and fauna, the PFM, Mia Martini, Mauro Pagani, Adriano Pappalardo, Formula 3, Toby Lightman and Edward Linkage, which will then be forwarded in September '71, with an excellent outcome, especially among younger audiences.
contract expires in September that linked him to the discs Remember, it is then free to go to Number One.
published his first single for Number One, "The song of sunshine / also for you," another key track.
In April '72, Baptists participate in the TV 10 Theater, presented by the great Alberto Lupo, sings a preview of "The Gardens of March" playing in duet with Mina playing a medley, then rightly considered one of the most important exhibitions in the history of Italian music.
This will be the last television appearance of Baptists in Italia .
Pubblica così il suo primo album per la Numero Uno , "Umanamente uomo: il sogno" , album che sarà il secondo più venduto del 1972 .
Battisti inizia a rifiutare interviste e fotografie e , rifiutando un'intervista per il settimanale Sogno, dichiara di preferire l'olio di ricino alla televisione , dichiarazione che oltre ad inasprire i toni verso i media , gli costerà la già preesistente 'etichettatura' destrorsa e di 'simpatizzante' dell'allora MSI Destra Nazionale , sia da parte del pubblico che da alcuni suoi colleghi , tra cui il compianto Pierangelo Bertoli , opinioni ed affermazioni che Battisti mai smentirà nè confermerà .
A novembre del 1972 , pubblica l'album "Il mio free song, accompanied by the single "My hand free / Confusion", best-selling album of 1973.
in 1973 released the album "Our dear angel" preceded by the single "Cherry Hill / Our dear angel." arrangements, for the first time, appearing with some important electronic instruments, and is reduced by the presence of strings and horns, inflated in the work of previous years.
At the end of 1974, after a trip to South America with the albums, Public Latin soul, "perhaps his most complex and hard disk, an attempted fusion of latin sounds with the Progressive sound, an album that includes songs long and extensive use of synthesizers, hard rhythmic and tribal at times, where the lyrics, sung by the 'low', are becoming more cryptic.
Although difficult to address the new proposal (almost any song remained in the collective memory), the disc gets exceptional sales and remained on the charts for many weeks, to record an album of Baptists.
In 1975, after a trip to the USA, Battisti absorb new musical style and recording technique, especially the sounds of disco music, so the RCA suggests to make an album with his greatest hits sung in English, but the 'artist does not agree and the next year the public longplaying "The drums, bass, etc." accompanied by single "Still you / Where did you get that bush," another hit from the many sales.
After two years, in '77, publishes another 33 laps, "I you us all", with the single "Loving each other a bit '/ Yes, travel, drive along the lines of the previous year, with a few main points of the production of Battisti second period.
The relationship with the albums is after, several ups and downs, and at loggerheads after the publication of a collection in English, "Images", published again in '77 for the RCA, without achieving the results hoped to break the foreign market.
follow two other important and successful album, "A woman friend" of 1978 and "A gloomy day" which opens the 80 , Both for Number One.
definitely ended the relationship with the albums, silently and without arguments, Baptists in 1982 released the album "Already", a disc totally 'foreign', with pieces of short duration, fully electronic without the use of strings and guitars, which see themselves as co-author of the texts that Velez, in reality his wife Grazia Letizia Veronese.
This album represents a radical change and the transition to a new phase for the artist Battisti.
In the second half of the 80s began working with Pasquale Panella, in this period, he published five albums musically diverse and advanced, which continues through the music research, dealing with different kinds e tecniche di registrazione , tutti dalla grafica minimale e completamente priva di colore .
I testi scritti con Panella sono molto diversi , di difficile comprensione , pieni di giochi di parole e doppi sensi , gli album sono privi del minimo battage pubblicitario , in perfetta sintonia con il suo personaggio , ormai 'assente' verbalmente e visivamente .
Nonostante tutto saranno accolti dal pubblico 'fedelissimo' , ma con un successo di volta in volta minore e dalla critica con pareri estremamente discordi .
Nel marzo 1986 Battisti torna sul mercato discografico con l'album "Don Giovanni" , il terzo album più venduto dell'anno .
Nell'ottobre 1988 esce l'album "L'apparenza" , dove su richiesta di Panella stesso , Starting with this album, the technique of writing songs is reversed, with panel that writes the lyrics and Baptists who later wrote the music above;
in September 1990 he published "The Bride West," published by CBS (and not the number One, as had happened to the previous albums).
The disc has no prominence among the general public, which is beginning to gain a feeling 'homesick' to the Baptists and instant classic.
October 1992 published "What will happen to the girl," with the Columbia label, which explores musical genres such as rap and techno, a further setback in sales and the plays.
Definitely better for sales, is the collection of old songs titled "Origins." After a 'failed' project to three, with Celentano and Mina (should have been called H2O), with Baptists first intrigued then disappeared irretrievably,
in January 1994, when his new album is almost ready, Baptists decided not to renew the contract with the label.
The album, entitled "Hegel" was released instead to the Number One, with a musical sound is very close to the Dance, whose texts contain numerous references to German philosopher Friedrich Hegel.
The disc unfortunately prove to be a flop when it comes to sales, album issue so that the time of publication, Panella said they would not write more lyrics for Baptists.
The downward turn of this great Italian music, will see it rejected, given the recent drop in popularity and success, major record companies and end with the worst news.
After ten days of hospitalization at a clinic in Milan, Lucio Battisti died on the morning of September 9, 1998 at the age of 55 years, the causes of death have not been officially disclosed.
Its production was a huge turning point for Italian pop music, a true innovator of traditional song and melody, 'ferried' to the modernità di generi e stili , un'Artista che ha lasciato postume tutte quelle 'giovani emozioni' , regalandoci per sempre canzoni memorabili ed ancora oggi attualissime per molti aspetti .
October 1992 published "What will happen to the girl," with the Columbia label, which explores musical genres such as rap and techno, a further setback in sales and the plays.
Definitely better for sales, is the collection of old songs titled "Origins." After a 'failed' project to three, with Celentano and Mina (should have been called H2O), with Baptists first intrigued then disappeared irretrievably,
in January 1994, when his new album is almost ready, Baptists decided not to renew the contract with the label.
The album, entitled "Hegel" was released instead to the Number One, with a musical sound is very close to the Dance, whose texts contain numerous references to German philosopher Friedrich Hegel.
The disc unfortunately prove to be a flop when it comes to sales, album issue so that the time of publication, Panella said they would not write more lyrics for Baptists.
The downward turn of this great Italian music, will see it rejected, given the recent drop in popularity and success, major record companies and end with the worst news.
After ten days of hospitalization at a clinic in Milan, Lucio Battisti died on the morning of September 9, 1998 at the age of 55 years, the causes of death have not been officially disclosed.
Its production was a huge turning point for Italian pop music, a true innovator of traditional song and melody, 'ferried' to the modernità di generi e stili , un'Artista che ha lasciato postume tutte quelle 'giovani emozioni' , regalandoci per sempre canzoni memorabili ed ancora oggi attualissime per molti aspetti .
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