Luigi Viva
NON PER UN DIO MA NEMMENO PER GIOCO - Vita di Fabrizio De André

THE REVIEW

A 'journalistic' biography, told with essence and interventions from numerous people contacted throughout Fabrizio De André's life, including himself, to be read in one breath, without dwelling as biographies of famous characters often do on the details.

Here we encounter the Fabrizio De André of the Genoese years, from his childhood in Revignano D'Asti, in Piedmont, fleeing the war that touched Genoa, to the 'contrasted' formative years between his 'bourgeois' background and contact with realities far from his class (the marginalized in the historic center - the pu--ane).

The friendship with Paolo Villaggio (8 years older than him), the first contacts with the public, the discovery of the anarchic French singer-songwriter Georges Brassens, the first songs, the first successes, the friendship with Luigi Tenco, Fabrizio's recognition by Mina with her interpretation of 'La canzone di Marinella', alcoholism, relational problems with his first wife and the encounter with Dori Ghezzi, his son Cristiano, the friendship and collaboration with Francesco De Gregori, the farm in Sardinia and the kidnapping, the artistic breakthrough with the Genoese album 'Creuza de mä', the political and social commitment, the uniqueness of his art, in music and text, and his performance in the studio and live. And finally, the death of a genius, considered among the great poets of the '900s.

An exciting journey that since 2000 I have often undertaken, reading about Fabrizio's Genoese years and the last ones of his career, before his death on January 11, '99 in Milan, not far from where I was doing an internship with the hospitality school (Aprica, in Valtellina, Sondrio).

I don't want to say more. Ever since I discovered it in a bookstore, like a warehouse, with stalls outside on a long personal street, I bought it, and it became my passion. With this cover, the first.