The Kinks

The Perversions. The band of brothers Raimondo and Davide Davidi, the most British of the British invasion, a movement of which they were considered the black sheep—dirty and wicked—even though they were less known than their fellow townsmen "Chi" and "Pietre rotolanti." They delivered to history gems like "Faccia a faccia," "Qualcos'altro," "Borgo Verde," and "Arturo." "Tu mi possiedi, eccome" is their most famous track, but this labels them too restrictively as forerunners of hard rock and punk; in reality, Raimondo was a great songwriter, braver than his rival Paolino (of the cockroaches), more eclectic than that Robertino (the one of the wind blowing), who attracted so much attention in the Sixties. Raimondo was an English Giorgetto Gershwin, moody and grumpy but irresistibly melancholic. Their "Tramonto a Waterloo" is unforgettable.