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Happy birthday, Vasco Rossi: 70 years of reckless life

The secret of the eternal youth of Vasco Rossi it’s all there, in the cartoon on I want a reckless life who posted on social media to celebrate these 70 years lived dangerously.

It is known, in fact, that legends do not age, but become immortal. And he, the rocker from Zocca, has dominated the Italian stages for four decades without any sign of abating. An important name for him, chosen by his truck driver father in honor of his fellow prisoner in Germany during the Second World War, who then became Blasco for everyone and became an icon.

The housewife enrolled him in music courses and at 14 he founded the first band. The love for rock arrives during the Sixties, which leads him to run away from home several times to live in Bologna with his aunt and study in high school. After the years of student riots, the years of free radio arrive and he anticipated its birth in the mid-seventies. After a few years of trying to bury a song arrives that brings him to the fore, We’re not Americansand shortly after comes the turning point of Clear dawn.

Then comes the TV and then the Sanremo Festival with I’m going to the max and after with Reckless lifebringing rock to the stage of the Ariston Theater. Addiction arrives, with drug arrest (22 days in prison)but by now in the Eighties the success is rampant, between There are those who say no and Free free.

In the nineties, between stadiums and Festivalbarhis rock is cleared through customs and is rampant again and again, around the world, until today.

Greetings flock from everywhere, today which is the day of the special birthday, beyond parties and flags (even theOrder of Nursing Professionsfor which the singer has always spent words of great respect).

The official Inter profile on Twitter publishes two hearts, one black and one blue, with the inscription: «WE ARE ONLY. You who know how to tell life, joy and pain like no one else could only belong to us! ».

Cesare Cremonini speaks of «70 years … free! We love you »and publishes a portrait of her eyes. Biagio Antonacci echoes him: «Today we only toast to yours!». Ermal Meta publishes an Instagram story with the words «Auguri King». Gigi D’Alessio publishes a hug: “Happy birthday to number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5”.

From Caterina Balivo (“to those who knew how to tell me about love like few others”) to the Tiromancino (“You have made our life better”), wishes multiply every minute and friend Red Ronnie throws a party on his Telegram channel with some videos of the rocker. In Florence, however, at dawn from the terrace of Piazzale Michelangelo a small live was improvised by his former guitarist Riccardo Mori, Lorenzo Baglioni and the Vocal Blue trains choir.
For the occasion, on February 7 at 21.25 on Nove the film will be broadcast Vasco Rossi – This story here. Due to the pandemic, the party organized on February 5 by the Zocca Fan Club was skipped, but the organizers promise to recover as soon as possible. In the meantime, it arrives in bookstores 70 times Vasco. Story of a rock star (Baldini + Castoldi), in the second reprint since the December issue.

The Komandante – as its audience calls it – is only at the beginning. The best, he promises, is yet to come.

Source: Vanity Fair

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