triky triky... can you give me a political speech where there is no politics......( back then, records were bought in the hundreds of thousands and the charts were dominated by the multi-award-winning Battisti, Baglioni, Zero, Bennato, the latter two in the second half of the '70s). And what does it matter not to be recognized by the press or by left-wing mass media? Is it possible that those on the right, aside from the songs from the oratory, didn't have their favorite singers? I, who was little at the beginning of the decade, remember the Feste dell'Unità as the only aggregative moment of the year, but it's a shame that in Brescia in May/June it usually rained one day and the next too. I'll leave you a text by Trampetti sung by Edoardo:
Feste di piazza/
the colored papers/
the always well-disposed looks/
towards sweets and orange sodas... /
The heads of the list with shimmering badges/
wave their arms like the damned/
just to feel more important.../
Up on stage comes number 24 on the list/
who to win over the crowd keeps/
repeating: it's time to end it, that’s enough.../
Everyone agrees, and we can go on/
and as predicted by the program/
the singers arrive... /
Now it's the turn of the somewhat introverted one/
who while performing lethargically/
thinks that it’s just wasted time... /
And suddenly the attraction arrives/
the people applaud nervously/
to mask a bit of disappointment.../
everything is over, the stage is taken down quickly/
because even the last of the workers/
has someone waiting for him at home... /
Scattered disorderly/
are the mental empties/
abandoned by the people.../
as you will notice, there’s a certain critique of how one was forced to abide by the rules of the game, yet why was Bennato successful and Gaetano not?
