Stanlio
Stanlio
15 dec 19

DeRank™: 8,44

Antonello Venditti - Prendilo Tu Questo Frutto Amaro

Little Steven - Bitter Fruit - 1987

This time #iladri are Italian, or rather to be more precise "is Italian," and not just any Italian, but a singer-songwriter of quite a considerable level, namely the seventy-year-old Antonio Venditti better known as Antonello, the only son of a man from Campobasso in Molise who became vice-prefect of Rome and a professor of Latin and Greek, but that’s another story…

His name would be Steven Lento, but we used to know him first as Little Steven (when he was with the Boss's E Street Band) and then as Steven Van Zandt, but also jokingly with the nickname Miami Steve due to his aversion to cold weather.

Of Italian-American descent, Steve, whose grandfather was from Calabria, Lamezia Terme, while his grandmother’s parents were Neapolitan, was Cheyenne on his mother’s side, augh!

This "Bitter Fruit" from '87 was covered by Antonello in '95 and features Steven in the Spanish version from '97 titled "Cómte Tu Este Fruto Amargo" and nothing as usual…
 
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Dan Erre
Dan Erre
15 dec 19

DeRank™: 3,13

Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra: 2. Adagio
A wonderful piece, written by someone who became blind at the age of 3 and managed to develop such a finely tuned sensitivity that translates into all this grace.
It seems to me that De André in "Tutti morimmo a stento" drew inspiration from it (see first notes).
 
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dsalva
dsalva
15 dec 19

DeRank™: 5,10

Paolo Fresu Sextet - Notti di dicembre
#songsfor12months
 
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mrbluesky
mrbluesky
15 dec 19

DeRank™: 7,57  JukeBox

Avio Focolari - Perchè Mi Va
A #ournewmonsters of Sunday
A breath of optimism
 
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Stanlio
Stanlio
14 dec 19

DeRank™: 0,00  ColonnaSonora

Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler (Video Lyrics)

This beautiful film won the Golden Lion at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in 2008 and features the remarkable performance of Mickey Rourke, who was fifty-six at the time.

At just sixteen, Philip André Rourke Jr., an avid cigarette smoker, was a regular at a famous boxing gym on Fifth Street in Miami Beach. He became one of the most promising young boxers and was called to be a sparring partner for the then welterweight world champion. Due to serious injuries sustained during sparring matches, he reluctantly decided to leave boxing behind (despite his amateur career having led him to win 20 matches, 17 by KO, and for the record, he lost 4).

Thus, he changed direction and headed to New York, where with money loaned to him by his sister Patty, he enrolled at the prestigious "Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute," studying "method acting" alongside Alfredo James "Al" Pacino, with those professors who trained actors of the caliber of Robert Anthony "Bob" De Niro Jr., Ronald "Christopher" Walken, and among others, also trained at that school were: Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III, Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi, Rosario Isabel Dawson, Rebecca De Mornay, Laura Dern, Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon, Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, also known as Lady Gaga, Brandon Bruce Lee, Norma Jeane Mortenson, also known as Marilyn Monroe, Tyrone William Power IV, Theresa Lynn Russell, Omar Sharif Jr. (his grandfather was the late Omar Sharif), Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek, Uma Karuna Thurman, Jon Voight, and nothing...
 
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tia
tia
14 dec 19

DeRank™: 19,17

VISAGE - Fade To Grey [Rare Video 1981] HQ the 80s around the corner
 
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