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Richard Benson, guitarist and tv personality, has died

2022-05-11T10:19:02.141Z


He was 67 years old. The Facebook announcement, "if I die, I die happy" / p> (ANSA)


Richard Benson, a British-born naturalized Italian guitarist, who marked the Roman underground music of the 1970s, died at the age of 67.

A well-known face also in TV programs, he has disappeared after battling a disease.

The news was disclosed through the artist's official Facebook page with an announcement commented in a short time by thousands of fans who lived and loved his music.


    The post reads: "Dear friends, unfortunately we have to give you the worst news possible. Richard fought like a lion once again against death and unfortunately did not make it. He left us. Last time though he told us: 'If I die, I die happy' ".


    Benson had been an eccentric character, capable of building a somewhat mysterious fame, ever since he began playing in the Roman circles of rock and underground music of the '70s.

There has always been a certain uncertainty about his origins, although in more recent years various people close to him have confirmed that he was born in England, showing his birth certificate withdrawn from the English embassy in Rome on the occasion of his marriage to Esther. Esposito in 2013. In addition to the name, the place and date of birth are also reported, as well as the names of the parents.


    Born Richard Philip Henry John Benson, he began his career as a radio host initially, giving advice on new records in the program by Renzo Arbore For You Young and then conducting various musical programs on Roman broadcasters, following Arbore also on TV interpreting the character of the "metalhead". 

Benson also appeared in Carlo Verdone's film 'Cursed the day I met you' in which he plays himself in the fictional show 'Hydrogen Juke-box'.

To remember it is the same Roman director who on his Instagram profile, in paying homage to him, writes: "I was struck when I saw him talking about great guitarists and groups unknown to me on a Roman television station," TVA 40 ". "crazy but definitely a character to keep in mind for a film. And so I offered him the role of an adrenaline-pumping host in a program called" Androgenic Juke Box ", in Damn the Day ... He was fantastic. Professional and meticulous. The beauty of those years on minor television was finding excessive, strange, crazy characters.

It came from a Rome unknown to us where idioms were invented, incredible looks were created, customs clearance of the forbidden.

It was always the suburbs that invented.

Because the bourgeoisie has never invented anything.

Massimo Marino, Alberto Marozzi, I Falchi della Notte, were the symbol of a modern, futurist and transgressive Rome.

Put the distortion in the sky, Richard! ".


Source: ansa

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