(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 23 - A six-night long party.
For what was supposed to be the celebration for 70 years and which, due to pandemic, became the celebration for 70 + 2.
But the wait did not affect the enthusiasm of Renato Zero, happy and excited as a child on Christmas Day to return to the stage, in the midst of his mice, faithful for more than 50 years.
"It's like resuming your studies after having abandoned them prematurely. The stage is a demanding reality, where you detach yourself even for a short time you have to start again with posture, with emotional stability. But the pump still holds me up and I would take advantage of it", he says with that always ironic tone. just before going on stage for what it promises will be three hours of music, but also of life, of shared emotions, of hopes.
"The trust and esteem I get from the public is the best response to my presence here. From me they need food, a supplement to help them overcome difficult times.
Even though I have often plunged the knife into the wound, confronting myself with loneliness, with restlessness. Like so many before me: Guccini, De André, De Gregori, Leonard Cohen, BobDylan. I don't want to get close to those peaks, but a good artist has a duty to integrate himself into existential problems ".
The six Roman concerts fall between the political elections.
"The coincidence didn't touch me in the slightest. I too have been voted on by my fans and I stay here six evenings."
Eenato does not hold back, on what it is and on what it could be.
"We were so happy with Draghi that his mandate was over. What hurry was there to vote? Did someone want to leave in a hurry? Let's go to the vote as if we were playing the football pool table, without knowing anyone. We had Almirante, Togliatti, Nenni, Saragat, politicians who They made themselves known for better or for worse. The strength of that Italy there was in the politicians who went to the villages, who conversed. Now it is offensive that after a mandate they have a pension. And that on the other hand they pay bills of 600 euros.
We want peace and a government that considers the needs of the workers, of the students.
There is no choice between buying bread or paying for gas ". (ANSA).
