Vasco Rossi and the mourning for the death of his friend Sergio Silvestri: “You will always remain alive in my heart”

A piece of life of Vasco Rossi He’s gone. Sergio Silvestrihis historic friend and collaborator, a crucial figure of his youthful years, died at the age of 73, as Vasco himself communicated on social media. “And then we will find ourselves like the stars … hello Sergio, you will always remain alive in my heart”wrote the rocker citing an iconic verse of Reckless life To greet the friend of a life, originally from Concordia sulla Secchia. The two met when they were students from the Salesian college San Giuseppe di Modenaand from there they have never left.

Vasco Rossi himself, in a post published on Facebook in 2018, had told that period with words with deep gratitude and emotion: «I don’t like to talk about the period in the college. I was all day with the open book without reading a line: five hours every afternoon and I don’t know how I did. I removed. I thought, I fantastic. The only positive thing was that I could play the guitar in the theater an hour a day, and There I met Sergio Silvestri, my guitar companion “. After a period away – Vasco in Bologna, Sergio in London – the two they found themselves in Zocca in the mid -70s In the creative ferment of Punto Radio, the free issuer founded by Vasco in 1975.

From that renewed collaboration, an important piece of Vasco Rossi’s discography was born like The witch (the Saturday evening diva), even if Blasco owes much more to Silvestriconsidering that it was the latter that made him know the guitarist Maurizio Solieriwho would become one of his band’s pillars. Sergio Silvestri has never abandoned his passion for music, so much so that his children I also founded the group Snowrallone, testimony of a legacy that continues. Funeral will be held in private form on Saturday 24 May, at the Terracielo di Mirandola.

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