"A concert without references, different from those we are used to. Unique. As it has never been done before".
Antonello Venditti and Francesco De Gregori are convinced of this, leaving from the Olympic stadium in Rome for their first tour together in 50 years of career, since 1972 which saw them double-signed the album Theorius Campus and after ups and downs in their relationship also made up of quarrels and reconciliation.
"After being interrupted, today our relationship has been completed. And we can send each other to that country as friends and not through third parties. We are brothers, and the brotherhood can never be interrupted" they say.
The project for the concert in Rome, and the tour that follows, began to take shape 4 years ago, then slowed down by the covid.
"What we are doing is an abnormal thing, but we don't have to prove anything - says Venditti just before going on stage -. After 50 years, no one has ever done what he hadn't done before. But the times are right today. A very strange thing ".
"Strange, but true", underlines De Gregori slyly.
The concert, they explain, "is one great song. It is the concert of one, even if there are two of us".
To divide them only the vision of what they represent.
"We are survivors, and I wish the new generations to survive in 50 years like us", is the Prince's position.
"But what survivor - replies Antonello piqued -: we are a river in flood, I feel creative, with a great desire to do even more than before".
On stage they will bring over thirty songs, twenty of which will be sung in two voices.
"For the lineup we followed a script - they say -, that of our life. 'Two of them left and there were enough', we sing and it's us. The goal is to party: our repertoire is fuel, we brought sausages good for barbecuing ".
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/H5LUYXSKDBH6FJX2QDIBDY3ZFQ.jpg)
