(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 1 - "I am grateful for these 30 years of intense music and success, but the intensity pays off and sometimes they get lost. In '99, after Happy Birthday Elvis and Radiofreccia, I had meditated to stop: not I was prepared for that amount of success and the isolation that this brought with it. "
Luciano Ligabue recounts the period in which he was about to leave everything, "but then I said to myself: if you stop, how can you not do concerts? And 20 years after that critical period, I'm still here".
Thirteen years that divide his life exactly in half: "I lived 30 years without being a musician and 30 years doing it".
And this was supposed to be the year of celebrations, with a great concert in Campovolo (postponed to June 19th next year "because the future of live shows cannot be streaming").
Meanwhile, in order not to lose the hand, the Liga has decided to defend in its own way, with a double release (for Warner MusicItaly): on December 4th the unreleased album "7" and the collection "77 + 7" arrive.
"Thirty years was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Being locked up at home encouraged the desire to make music in the studio, since I couldn't do it outside the home. And for the first time I stopped and looked back. If you can't, look ahead. , look back ".
7, a number that has always been special for Ligabue, becomes the protagonist of this new project: the unpublished album contains 7 songs, ideas found in the drawers and rewritten (including the duet - the first real duet of his career - with Elisa Volente or Nolente), while the box set collects the 77 singles, one every 5 months, which have made the history of the rocker.
(HANDLE).