Rino Gaetano

He was the rocker of his generation. Rino Gaetano never ventured beyond the light song (and he was fully aware of it) when a Battiato or Area produced works like Pollution and Arbeit Macht Frei, but the lyrics of his compositions were satirical vignettes worthy of Georges Pichard, a catabasis of the absurd in the little Italy of the years of lead, endowed with an anarchic courage and a poetry (especially in the first two albums) that was ironic and surreal without compromise.