“I wouldn’t trade this life for any other.” Luciano Ligabue at 62 he has this certainty. So much so that it was the title of the last song. Song that she has chosen to open the live return after almost three years. The great night of La Liga, to celebrate 30 years of career (plus two, to be precise, those of the stop due to the pandemic), in Campovolo, in the new RCF Arena in Reggio Emilia completely renovated. In front of an audience of over 103,000 people, who had arrived in Reggio Emilia the night before.
“Covid has left its effects on each of us, and as for me, I felt unable to look ahead during the most difficult months “, said the singer-songwriter shortly before going on stage, «And if you don’t look forward, you can only look to the sides or back. I wanted to look back, that’s why I decided to also write an autobiography (A story, published by Mondadori). Without concerts I found myself reviving all the memories in my mind, coming to the conclusion that no book can contain an entire life, but the memories that matter do ». And again: «I unrolled 62 years of life as if it flowed step by step. And there I understood: at the base of everything I feel a very strong feeling of gratitude for those who allowed me to live this life “.
And now Ligabue, finally back on stage, was able to sing “And we won”. And to answer him he found a choir of over 100,000 loyalists. A beautiful sight. Shortly before, at exactly 9 pm, the concert was opened by the friend and manager of all time Claudio Maioli who raised two flags, that of Campovolo and that of peace. “The world unfortunately continues to be crossed by war, ours wants to be a great message of peace”Ligabue explained.
In fact, he also wanted in the lineup My name is never again. To sing the song with him, Mauro Pagani. Absent, however, Piero Pelù, still recovering from the recent fall from the stage. “It’s a song that we composed with a strong sentimental involvement, to make our position felt. It was 1999 and we printed together with the song a map of all the ongoing wars in the world», He explains again,« Unfortunately it also applies to today ».
Among gold-colored balloons, plays of light, giant screens and all his bands, Ligabue wanted other friends on the stage (77 meters wide by 19 high): Loredana Bertè, with whom he sang I stopped being silentagainst violence on women; Gazelles («I found out after hearing a very touching version of him on Instagram Love counts), Eugenio Finardi, with which he sang the only song not his, Rebellious Music: “A fair tribute to those who in the 70s showed that author music could be done with a rock spirit”. And then Elisafor Your way: «He is the artist I have collaborated with most often». And again “the prince” Francesco De Gregori. Together the two sang Goodnight to Italy: «A love letter to Italy. As I get older, with the thickening of the arteries I become more and more sentimental “, she jokes,” So I feel even more love and contempt for the things that don’t work in this country ».
Over three hours of music, thirty-one songs (Let’s dance on the world, The smell of sex, No Fear, Bar Mario, I put away, Little star with no sky, The day of days, I feel you, You were beautiful, What you are not, Some nights, Between stage and reality, Screaming against the sky), and closing fireworks to illuminate the Arena. A sea of people, and a sea of love for Luciano Ligabue.
And you repeat it to me whenever you want
That we have won,
We won,
We won
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Source: Vanity Fair
