Lucio Battisti would have been 80 years old in 2023, but his songs are still unforgettable today / autoruote4x4.com
The unforgettable singer-songwriter has shaped the history of Italian pop music, but today we reveal a detail that few people know.
When we talk about Italian music and songwriting, it’s impossible not to think about it Lucio Battisti, someone who shaped the history of our country with his unforgettable songs that can still win over millions of fans, even the youngest listeners, today. The provincial-born singer-songwriter Rieti In 1943 he died in 1998 at the age of just 55 after an illness, the details of which are not known.
Lucio Battisti is someone who knows music and likes to experiment, that’s for sure: over the course of his career he crossed Italian pop music, but also ventured into jazz, electronic and world music. They were seventeen The Albums released when he was still alive, without forgetting all the posthumous publications that paid homage to him.
And it is enough to read the titles of some of his most famous songs to realize the legacy that Lucio Battisti left in Italian popular music and beyond: from “My free song” to “You come to mind again”, from “An Adventure” to “The Song of the Sun“Without forgetting”Blue water, clear water“, “Thoughts and Words” and “A Gloomy Day”, and we could go on and on.
The Lover of Lucio Battisti: He also told it in his beautiful songs
Lucio Battisti’s story and songs were also shaped by his love for him Grace Letizia Veronese, also a composer and author of many great songs: The two met in Sanremo in 1968 and married civilly in 1976. Their love was intense and their love was never questioned except by Lucio’s secret passion… The One For motorcycles.
In fact, the news says that Battisti loved to travel aboard his boat to Molteno, where he lived MV Agusta 175, on which he also accompanied his friend and collaborator Mogol, with whom he wrote his most beautiful songs. The passion for motorcycles is also told in many of his songs such as “time to die“.
Lucio Battisti, left, with his friend Mogol, with whom he shared much of his great career / Photo Il Corriere della sera / autoruote4x4.com
The passion for motorcycle travel was the focus of many of Battisti’s songs
It’s certainly no secret that Lucio Battisti loved traveling: just think of “Yes, travel“, a song from 1977 that tells the story of the Freedom to travel: “Use your headlights to illuminate the road clearly so you know where to go.” And then again in “emotions“: “and drive like a madman at night with the headlights off to see if it’s that hard to die…”.
Poetic and intense songs, like all of the singer-songwriter’s, that tell us what it really means to travel.