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Francesco De Gregori came back with a vengeance from a self-imposed retirement with his outstanding 1978 album De Gregori. He immediately followed with a successful collaboration with friend and fellow pop star Lucio Dalla that extended over the hit single "Ma Come Fanno i Marinai" and a high-profile tour, and recorded the excellent live album Banana Republic. Not surprisingly, his 1979 release Viva L'Italia is the most "Dalla-esque" album of De Gregori's career, even if Dalla did no   [ read more ]

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Francesco De Gregori went through a spell in the '80s when he failed to deliver the sort of absolute classics that populated his '70s records. This is not to say, however, that he was making weak albums. Mira Mare 19.4.89 is the best example of both these two seemingly opposite statements. While several of these songs became concert favorites, none remotely achieved the popularity of De Gregori's best-known songs. Yet, this is arguably his strongest album of the decade, after the masterpiece {^Tita   [ read more ]

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The ironically titled Canzoni d'Amore (Love Songs) is actually one of Francesco De Gregori's most unforgiving, socially committed albums. As the hedonist 1980s of the Craxi Administration came to a close, the Italian political system began to crumble, unveiling in its wake a shameful trail of widespread corruption, financial crisis, and moral decadence. De Gregori denounces and dissects a society ravaged by indifference, bigotry, selfishness, and simple stupidity, reflected in issues such as the   [ read more ]

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Francesco de Gregori achieved celebrity status with Rimmel and Bufalo Bill, but success also brought unforeseen consequences. During a 1976 tour, extreme left-wing activists interrupted one of his concerts accusing him of selling out. As absurd as it may seem in retrospect, the incident deeply shocked De Gregori (who was always a leftist politically engaged songwriter), so much so that he retired from the music scene and became a bookseller. Fortunately, this self-imposed exile did not last long   [ read more ]

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Francesco De Gregori's first three records, as brilliant as they often were, went largely unnoticed. Everything changed with Rimmel, the 1975 release that made him into a pop superstar, and second only to Fabrizio De AndrT as the greatest of Italian cantautori. With a little help from friends such as Lucio Dalla, De Gregori expanded his singer/songwriter compositions into full-blown pop songs. Accordingly, the spare acoustic guitar that dominated his previous albums is replaced by band   [ read more ]

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