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CCCP Fedeli alla linea

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Forlisteners interested in italian 1980s punk/post-punk, politically charged art-rock, and conceptual/live-performance driven music.
19 Reviews 27 Definitions 33 Charts
Italian Rock Punk Author's Song

The Profile

CCCP Fedeli alla linea were an Italian punk/post-punk band formed in 1982, strongly associated with a Berlin–Emilia cultural axis and known for drum-machine driven rhythms, provocative slogans, and theatrical live performances featuring Danilo Fatur and Annarella Giudici. Their core figures include vocalist/lyricist Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and guitarist Massimo Zamboni.

Formed in Berlin in 1982 by Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and Massimo Zamboni; associated with Reggio Emilia/Emilia. Noted in reviews for conceptual irony, Soviet imagery/provocation, and a mix of punk/post-punk with other elements (including references to local/folk material and religious themes). Reviews describe their late-1980s expansion in personnel (e.g., Gianni Maroccolo, Francesco Magnelli, Ringo De Palma, Giorgio Canali) leading toward the later C.S.I. project.

Across these reviews, CCCP Fedeli alla linea are portrayed as a landmark Italian punk/post-punk project born on a Berlin–Emilia axis, mixing drum machines, obsessive grooves, slogans, and theatrical live performance. Key albums repeatedly cited as essential include “1964-1985…”, “Socialismo e barbarie”, and “Epica Etica Etnica Pathos”, with “Canzoni, preghiere, danze…” seen as divisive. Reviewers stress their refusal of Anglo-American templates, their use of irony and provocation, and their ability to turn provincial Emilia, the USSR mythos, and the sacred into a unique conceptual universe.

Notable Quotes

❝ “Fedeli alla linea, even when there isn't one, When the emperor is sick when he dies or is doubtful or perplexed, Fedeli alla linea the line is not there.”
❝ “Live in Moscow, live in Budapest, live in Warsaw, live in Sofia, live in Prague, live in Pankow!”
❝ “CCCP is a segment in the life of each of us, very significant, decisive, and often illuminating. We have already written somewhere that before CCCP we lived and we will live even after. It will end, of course, we neither feel nor have ever been rock'n'roll stars, nor are we interested in a musical career. On the contrary, if it were so, perhaps there would be reason to worry...”
❝ “Leave me here Leave me alone Leave me like this Don't say a word that Is not of love For me For my life that Is all I have It's all that I have and it's not yet Over Over...”
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