Gazebo

Gazebo (2013)

Gazebo (born  February 18, 1960 in Beirut , Lebanon ; real name Paul Mazzolini ) is an Italian musician . His music is assigned to the genre Italo Disco . With I Like Chopin he had a number one hit in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1983.

biography

Gazebo (2004)

Paul Mazzolini was born in Beirut, the son of an Italian diplomat . His mother Stephanie was a singer in the United States prior to their marriage . In 1974 he founded the school band Skunk Tussle in Los Angeles and gained his first experience in a theater group. In 1983 he successfully completed his studies in French literature in Rome and began to work with Paul Micioni. The very first song under the stage name Gazebo, Master Piece , was surprisingly successful in 1982 and was ranked 35th in Germany and even 5th in Switzerland.

Another hit followed in October 1983 with I Like Chopin , which was able to place high in many charts around the world and made it to number 1 on the German, Austrian and Swiss charts. A few weeks later the single Lunatic was in the top 10 in Germany and Switzerland and in the top 20 in Austria. In the same year Mazzolini wrote the lyrics to Dolce Vita , the hit of his compatriot Ryan Paris . He released this song as a single in 1988 in its own version.

With the single Telephone Mama , Gazebo had its last top 10 listing in Italy in 1984. Further CDs and singles followed ( Milky Way , Trotsky Burger ). To this day he has toured the world and released new albums. He also worked as a producer for other artists.

Mazzolini has been in a relationship with his partner Maria since 1988 and has two children with her.

In 2020, Gazebo recorded a new version of its classic "I Like Chopin" during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and dedicated the piece to the employees of Italian hospitals.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	CH	IT
1983	Gazebo	DE4 (33 weeks) DE	CH16 (8 weeks) CH	IT6 (16 weeks) IT

More albums

• 1984: Telephone Mama
• 1986: Univision
• 1988: The Rainbow Tales
• 1989: Sweet Life
• 1991: Scenes from the News Broadcast
• 2007: ladies! The Art of Remixage
• 2008: The Syndrone
• 2015: reset

Compilations

• 1987: The Best of Gazebo
• 1992: I Like Chopin - Best of Gazebo
• 1994: portrait
• 1997: Greatest Hits
• 1998: Viewpoint
• 1998: The Collection
• 2000: Portrait & Viewpoint
• 2000: Gazebo
• 2002: The Best of Gazebo
• 2002: Remixes 2
• 2003: portrait
• 2007: Portrait - Greatest Hits
• 2013: I Like… Live! (2 CDs)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	IT
1982	Masterpiece Gazebo	DE35 (17 weeks) DE	-	CH5 (6 weeks) CH	IT2 (29 weeks) IT	Sales: + 50,000
1983	I Like Chopin Gazebo	DE1 gold (27 weeks)DE	AT1 (20 weeks) AT	CH1 (18 weeks) CH	IT1 (26 weeks) IT	Sales: + 250,000
	Lunatic Gazebo	DE4 (18 weeks) DE	AT13 (4 weeks) AT	CH6 (11 weeks) CH	IT5 (12 weeks) IT
1984	Telephone Mama Telephone Mama	-	-	-	IT12 (7 weeks) IT

More singles

• 1983: Love in Your Eyes
• 1984: First!
• 1985: For Anita
• 1986: Trotsky Burger
• 1986: The Sun Goes Down on Milky Way
• 1987: Give Me One Day ...
• 1988: Coincidence / God Bless the Moonshade
• 1988: Dolce vita
• 1989: Ordinary Life
• 1989: Coincidence
• 1989: Sweet Life
• 2000: Masterpiece (Remix)
• 2006: Tears for Galileo
• 2008: ladies!
• 2011: Queen of Burlesque
• 2015: Blindness

Author participations and productions

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	IT
1983	Dolce vita Ryan Paris	DE3 (20 weeks) DE	AT2 (12 weeks) AT	CH3 (12 weeks) CH	UK5 (11 weeks) UK	IT9 (12 weeks) IT
1984	Fall in Love Ryan Paris	DE67 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 1983: for the single Masterpiece

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
Canada (MC)	gold1	-	50,000	musiccanada.com
All in all	2 × gold2	-

swell

1. ↑ Homepage. Retrieved August 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 80s80s: Listen to the 2020 version of "I Like Chopin" here. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Chart sources (albums):
   • Gazebo (album). In: Official German Charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on June 25, 2015 (DE). 
   • Gazebo albums. In: Hitparade.ch . Hung Medien, accessed on June 25, 2015 (CH). 
   • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on June 25, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} chart sources (singles):
   • Gazebo: Single Chart Tracking. (No longer available online.) In: Musicline.de . PHONONET, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 25, 2015 (DE). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
   • Singles from Gazebo. In: austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed November 16, 2017 (AT). 
   • Singles from Gazebo. In: Hitparade.ch . Hung Medien, accessed on June 25, 2015 (CH). 
   • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on June 25, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access). 
5. ↑ Chart placement UK
6. ↑ Author participations and productions at austriancharts.at

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Works by and about Gazebo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gazebo at Discogs (English)