Pooh
The Best of Pooh

THE REVIEW

After the thirtieth anniversary celebrations with "Amici x sempre", the legendary Pooh indulge in a "spin-off" with "The Best of Pooh", a superb two-CD collection featuring 28 tracks selected from the vast production of our beloved band, with the addition of two unreleased tracks that represent the two souls of the group. The first of these is "Brava la vita", a track that at times recalls the previous "Amici x sempre" and opens the first disc. A video was also made where the quartet flies into the fire... The second single instead closes the second CD and is "Non lasciarmi mai più", a "Roby Facchinetti" style song with an engaging solo by Dodi Battaglia. For the rest, the tracks are not arranged in chronological order, and this gives the idea of a journey through the years, from the Seventies to the Nineties, from the legendary albums "Opera prima", "Alessandra" and "Parsifal" to the celebratory "Amici x sempre", passing through the perhaps overused sounds of "Aloha" and "Giorni infiniti". Noteworthy is the 1990 version of "In silenzio", a track sung by Riccardo Fogli in 1968 in "Contrasto", and "Happy Christmas", a John Lennon cover included in a 1984 anthology, one of the few songs sung in English by the four, who prove to know their way around the language. To close before the second unreleased track "Parsifal", the least commercial track surely, but placed at the end restores all the value to the collection. An elegant red cloth with a gold coin in the center testifies to the elegance of four of the most talented musicians of the Peninsula, who have not succumbed to the difficulties of the profession, remaining compact and united. DODI RED ROBY STEFANO.