Ron remembers his friend Lucio Dalla

A career spanning fifty years in which he managed not only to intertwine words and melodies, but also to enter the history of Italian music as a poet of rare skill, a teacher capable of giving emotions that continue to relive in his songs, convincing us that a we’ll never have anything else like him. Let’s talk about Lucio Dalla who, on the occasion of the anniversary of his birth – on 4 March 2022 he would have turned 79 -, becomes the protagonist on RaiPlay of the new episode of Cuttlefish bones, what we remember, who collected the moved and heartfelt memory of one of Dalla’s closest and closest friends: Rosalino Cellamare, better known as Ron.

«Lucio has written a lot for me. I wrote for him. And it was an extraordinary experience. At least think of me I sang it in Sanremo and it was a beautiful thing, exciting for me, but I think it was exciting for many who were there to watch television. Because Lucio was there. I knew his songs were great, but I never touched the depth they had. Well, I think I managed to understand all the greatness of Lucio », explains Ron who, in his story by Lucio Dalla, chooses to dwell on the most significant images and stories of an artist who left us too soon.

Exceptional interpreter of a music that started from the desire to entertain and bring people together, as in his very famous Piazza Grande, According to Ron, Lucio Dalla managed better than others to tell the soul of an entire country through his songs and his passion: “That’s how Lucio was, sometimes he called me in the middle of the night full of enthusiasm to tell me:” Listen to this masterpiece, feel what stuff I’ve done! “. It would be nice now to hear that phone ring again and find that voice again. “ What remains, however, is the music that he left us and that will forever be part of our artistic heritage, as much today as tomorrow.

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