Lucio Battisti

Lucio Battisti (born March 5, 1943 in Poggio Bustone , † September 9, 1998 in Milan ) was an Italian cantautore , composer and multi-instrumentalist .

He is considered one of the most influential and innovative figures in Italian popular music , both as a composer and interpreter of his own music and as a composer for other singers. During his career he has sold over 25 million records.

life and career

Lucio Battisti was born in Poggio Bustone ( Province of Rieti ) on March 5, 1943 as the second son of the customs officer Alfiero (1913-2008) and Dea Battisti (1917-1983). Another child of his parents was the daughter Albarita (1946-2003), while the first-born son, also named Lucio, died in 1942 at the age of only two.

Beginnings

1943–1962: childhood and youth

In 1947 the Battisti family moved to the Vasche fraction of the municipality of Castel Sant'Angelo , also in the province of Rieti, and three years later to Rome . After secondary school, Lucio Battisti received a guitar as a gift from his parents . His interest in the instrument also came from two guitarists from the neighborhood, from whom he heard his first rock 'n' roll pieces. It is possible that the electrical installer Silvio Di Carlo was Battisti's guitar teacher for a while, but his learning was mostly self-taught.

Battisti did an apprenticeship at the Istituto tecnico industriale statale Galileo Galilei , but his passion for playing the guitar made him think about dropping out of his apprenticeship. Under pressure from his father and on the condition that he let him exempt from military service , Battisti graduated as an electrical engineer in 1962.

1962–1966: First musical experiences and the encounter with Mogol

In the fall of 1962 Battisti began performing in Naples with the group I Mattatori ; However, financial difficulties and loneliness drew him back home. He then joined the Roman group I Satiri , which acted as a backing band for Enrico Pianori and often performed in Rome at the Cabala nightclub . There I met the already better-known band I Campioni , who were looking for a guitarist after Bruno De Filippi left . After Alberto Radius refused, band leader Roby Matano Battisti suggested the post, who accepted the offer. As a result, he moved to Milan, the main area of ​​activity of the Campioni, and now moved mainly in the area of ​​the Santa Tecla club , where jazz and the emerging Italian rock were played at that time. In 1964, the Campioni had the opportunity to expand their musical experience as part of a tour through Germany and the Netherlands .

In collaboration with band leader Matano as a lyricist, Battisti wrote his first songs, such as Se rimani con me . However, these were completely ignored. However, some of them were later republished with new texts, such as Non chiederò la carità , which became Mi ritorni in mente . On February 14, 1965, Battisti auditioned for producer Franco Crepax; The music publisher Christine Leroux, who worked as a talent scout for the Dischi Ricordi label , became aware of him and initiated a meeting with the lyricist Giulio Rapetti (artist name: Mogol ). Although initially unimpressed by Battisti and his songs, Mogol decided to work with him. It was also Mogol who urged Battisti to sing his own songs in 1966, despite the resistance of her record company Ricordi.

In February 1966, the newcomer Sergio Endrigo appeared at the Sanremo Festival with the song Adesso sì, written by Battisti and Mogol . Then Battisti published his first own single Dolce di giorno / Per una lira , which was a failure. Only in the interpretations of the groups Dik Dik and I Ribelli (by Demetrio Stratos ) could the songs prevail.

1967–1968: The success of September 29 and Balla Linda

In 1967 Mogol and Battisti achieved their first number one hit with the song 29 September, which was interpreted by the band Equipe 84 and played a lot on the radio show Bandiera gialla . Equipe 84 also performed successfully Nel cuore, nell'anima ; The duo also wrote Uno in più for Riki Maiocchi , with which Mogol in particular sought a renewal of the Italian song tradition. As a singer Battisti released his second single Luisa Rossi / Era , which contained an RnB and a medieval-themed piece and was unsuccessful. Still in 1967 Battisti wrote Mogol Non prego per me for Mino Reitano ( Sanremo Festival 1967 ) and appeared as guitarist in La ballata di Pickwick , the title track of Ugo Gregoretti's film Il Circolo Pickwick , sung by Gigi Proietti .

In 1968 the single Prigioniero del mondo / Balla Linda followed . The A-side Prigioniero del mondo was a song written by Carlo Donida and Mogol, originally intended for Gianni Morandi , and was unsuccessfully presented in the 1968 Un disco per l'estate competition . Battisti also shot his first music video for this song. The B-side Balla Linda , which musically can already be classified as experimental for the time, had greater success and whose text stands out due to the renunciation of the traditional pair rhyme .

With Balla Linda Battisti took part in the Cantagiro competition in 1968 and reached fourth place. For the first time he entered the Italian charts as a singer and the English version Bella Linda of the band The Grass Roots even reached number 28 on the American Billboard Hot 100 .

1969: The breakthrough as a singer and songwriter

After Battisti had twice participated in the Sanremo Festival as a songwriter, in 1967 with Non prego per me (Mino Reitano and The Hollies ) and in 1968 with La farfalla impazzita ( Johnny Dorelli and Paul Anka ), he performed for the first and only time in Sanremo in 1969 on. The song Un'avventura was strongly influenced by rhythm and blues , international co-interpreter was Wilson Pickett . The entry reached ninth place in the final of the competition with 69 votes., Battisti's participation in Sanremo brought Battisti into the limelight, and with increasing popularity he was exposed to the first criticisms: Alfonso Madeo described Battisti's appearance in the Corriere della Sera as "awkward" (impacciata ) Natalia Aspesi sharply criticized Battisti's voice in Il Giorno, suspecting "nails sticking in his throat" (chiodi che gli stridono in gola) , and Paolo Panelli made fun of Battisti's nonconformist and wild hairstyle in Il Messaggero by playing him compared to Struwwelpeter and Hun King Attila . On January 31, the Sanremo song appeared on the single Un'avventura / Non è Francesca .

On March 4, 1969, Battisti finally released his first album Lucio Battisti , which was basically a collection of his previous singles and some songs originally released by other performers; on March 28th the next single Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara / Dieci ragazze was released . In some interviews, Battisti also announced his engagement to Grazia Letizia Veronese, the secretary of Miki Del Prete from Adriano Celentano's record company Clan Celentano .

On April 15th he took part for the first time in a television program, Speciale per voi by Renzo Arbore , which was broadcast on the second channel of the RAI . In the show he promoted the song Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara , which developed into one of the summer hits of the year: After a third place at Cantagiro 1969 with 861 votes, Battisti won the festival bar competition of the year with 343,984 votes, almost 50,000 ahead ahead of the second-placed I Camaleonti .

In the summer of 1969 the singer completed his first tour, consisting of 21 concerts. Together with Mogol, he also founded the independent record label Numero Uno, which subsequently signed acts such as Formula 3 , Bruno Lauzi , Edoardo Bennato , Adriano Pappalardo and Oscar Prudente . Battisti himself was contractually bound to Ricordi at that time. Battisti's next single, Mi ritorni in mente / 7 e 40 , was released on October 14 ; the A-side was presented on October 19 in the radio show Gran varietà by Walter Chiari and finally reached the top of the single charts in early 1970 .

Despite his own success, he continued his songwriting activity: he was responsible for successes such as the slightly psychedelic Questo folle sentimento from Formula 3, Mamma mia from the Camaleonti or Il paradiso della vita (written in 1968 for La ragazza 77 ), published in 1969 in the English Version of Amen Corner as (If Paradise Is) Half as Nice reached number one in the British charts and was then made famous in Italy by Patty Pravo .

Even at this time, Battisti's difficult character in dealing with the public interest in his person became apparent; In an interview about his private life he called the journalists "damn curious" (dannati curiosi) , he vehemently demanded his right to privacy and emphasized that he wanted to be judged for his music and not for his private life.

Battisti, Mogol and the Numero Uno

During the entire 1970s, Lucio Battisti experienced a maximum of popularity and success. His albums were consistently among the best-selling of the year between 1969 and 1980.

1970: The happy collaboration with Mogol

In 1970 Battisti wrote the music for Sole giallo, sole nero and Io ritorno solo by Formula 3, Insieme and Io e te da soli by Mina , Per te by Patty Pravo , Mary oh Mary and E penso a te by Bruno Lauzi , and Io mamma , Uomini and Perché dovrei for Sara, which he launched himself . He also played guitar in the song La prima cosa bella by Nicola Di Bari , which took second place at the 1970 Sanremo Festival. On June 2nd he took part again in Renzo Arbore's Speciale per voi . He emphasized that he did not sing political songs and had to listen to criticism of his voice again. Strengthened by the audience in the hall, he sang Il tempo di morire and Fiori rosa, fiori di pesco . On June 8, 1970, the single Fiori rosa fiori di pesco / Il tempo di morire was also released .

From June 21st to July 26th of this year, Battisti and Mogol took a trip on horseback from Milan to Rome, which Battisti reported in a series of articles in TV Sorrisi e Canzoni magazine. Together with Formula 3, he then went on a tour of ten concerts between Rimini , Viareggio and Sestri Levante . This should be his last tour. On September 2, 1970, the singer again won Festivalbar with the song Fiori rosa, fiori di pesco . In this context, he expressed his intention to record a concept album about love.

On October 15th the single Emozioni / Anna was released . In November 1970, the announced concept album Amore e non amore was ready for release. However, since it was seen as too experimental and incomprehensible (half of the pieces were purely instrumental tracks, with a tendency towards progressive rock ), Ricordi instead released the album Emozioni in December , which had been compiled exclusively from previously published songs. This decision made Battisti's relationship with the record company worse.

1971: The move to Numero Uno

In April Battisti released the single Pensieri e parole / Insieme a te sto bene . Music producer Alessandro Colombini was very skeptical in advance, but the single turned out to be another great success. As the press increasingly complained about Battisti's lack of availability for interviews and photo ops, the singer organized his own press event on April 27 at the Circolo della stampa in Milan together with Mario Lavezzi and Mogol. On May 1, 1971, he appeared on the television program Teatro 10 , during which he presented Pensieri e parole in playback and Eppur mi son scordato di te live. This performance was an enormous public success. For the summer, Mogol suggested swimming together to travel the Po to the delta , but Battisti's rheumatic complaints made the project nothing. In July he conducted a 25-piece orchestra in Campione d'Italia in the interpretation of 7 agosto di pomeriggio a song from the still unpublished Amore e non amore .

But already this month Ricordi decided to release the album after all, together with the single Dio mio no / Era ; however, the A-side was censored because the song contained too erotic sentences. On July 31st, the RAI recorded the television program Tutti insieme , which was invented by Mogol and in which only performers from the Numero Uno environment appeared: Lucio Battisti, Alberto Radius, Dik Dik, Flora Fauna Cemento , Premiata Forneria Marconi , Lally Stott , Mia Martini , Mauro Pagani , Adriano Pappalardo , Formula 3, Bruno Lauzi and Edoardo Bennato . The broadcast on September 23rd proved to be particularly successful with younger audiences.

In September Battisti's contract with Ricordi ended, after which he moved to Numero Uno. In order to make the greatest possible profit from Battisti's popularity, Ricordi brought the compilation Lucio Battisti vol. 4 (with two previously unreleased songs) and the single Le tre verità / Supermarket on October 24th . In November La canzone del sole / Anche per te Battisti's first single for Numero Uno was released. As part of the program Cento di queste notti on December 31, Battisti presented both La canzone del sole and part of Dio mio no . As a songwriter, he was responsible for Vendo casa (Dik Dik), Eppur mi son scordato di te , Nessuno nessuno and Mi chiamo Antonio tal dei tali e lavoro ai mercati generali (Formula 3), Amor mio and La mente torna (Mina ), Amore caro amore bello and L'aquila ( Bruno Lauzi ) and Un papavero (Flora Fauna Cemento).

1972–1973: The increasing abandonment of the mass media

Ricordi released the single Elena no / Una in March 1972, Battisti's last material for which she still had the rights.

On April 23, Battisti took part in Teatro 10 again. He was introduced by Alberto Lupo and presented (in playback) I giardini di marzo , before performing a medley of Insieme , Mi ritorni in mente , Il tempo di morire , E penso a te , Io e te da soli live in a duet with Mina , Eppur mi son scordato di te and Emozioni sang. This duet went down in the history of Italian pop music and was the last appearance of the singer on Italian television. On April 24th, his first album, Umanamente uomo: il sogno , was released by Numero Uno , accompanied by the single I giardini di marzo / Comunque bella .

When Battisti became increasingly headstrong towards the press and refused to give an interview to the weekly magazine Sogno , he got caught in the crossfire of the press, with Sogno accusing him of just looking for attention and the magazine Oggi starting a discussion on the question “Is Battisti really a phenomenon ? ” (Battisti è davvero un fenomeno?) , During which Riz Ortolani accused him of“ copying ” (scopiazzare) , Augusto Martelli described him as a“ terrible dilettante ” (dilettante spaventoso) and“ inflated ” (un pallone gonfiato) while Aldo Buonocore Battisti's voice once more criticized it as “whining and torment” (la sua voce è una lagna, uno strazio) .

In November 1972 he released the album Il mio canto libero , which, like the single of the same name, was an enormous success. On December 12, Battisti's last appearance on a radio show, Supersonic , followed, during which he sang Comunque bella , Innocenti evasioni , La canzone del sole and Sognando e risognando ; Fabrizio Zampa criticized the appearance in Il Messaggero as a “folk festival of wrong notes and inaccuracies” (una sagra della stonatura e dell'approssimazione) . It was the singer's last public appearance.

In 1972 he also wrote Il mio bambino for Iva Zanicchi , Io mamma for Sara, È ancora giorno and Segui lui for Adriano Pappalardo , Mondo blu for i Flora Fauna Cemento, Aeternum , Sognando e risognando and Storia di un uomo e di una donna for Formula 3 and Prima e dopo la scatola for Alberto Radius. With two exceptions in 1976 Battisti did not write any more songs for other performers.

On March 25, 1973 the only son of Lucio and Grazia Letizia, Luca Filippo Carlo Battisti, was born. The huge media interest led to Battisti's final break with the press: On March 26th, Sogno published an article speculating about a possible flirtation between Battistis and the adult film specialist Zeudi Araya ; On March 27, journalists broke into Battisti's hospital room to take pictures, whereupon he forcibly chased them away and holed up with his family in the clinic for over four days. As a result, Novella magazine in 2000 certified him paranoid and published a caricature of the singer. The press hunt for Battisti continued; on May 14, 2000 , Novella reported a major administrative fine he had incurred, while on June 10, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni reported on the front page of the observation that Battisti had apparently had a secret villa built near Brianza. In fact, the singer had a villa built in Dosso di Coroldo ( Molteno ) right next to Mogol's, in which he would then live with his family until his death. The press, he refused to now totally: first he declined an interview with Enzo Biagi off, and then a request by Giovanni Agnelli , the singer for one of Fiat -sponsored concert in the Teatro Regio in Turin against a payment of 2 billion lire wanted to commit .

In September 1973 the album Il nostro caro angelo was released with the single La collina dei ciliegi / Il nostro caro angelo . For the first time, electronic instruments were increasingly used, while the importance of wind instruments and strings declined. With sales of over 500,000 copies, it was able to build on the success of Il mio canto libero . In the same year Battisti appeared on the soundtrack of the film La circostanza by Ermanno Olmi , with songs that he had written for Formula 3. In addition, the singer went to Hamburg in autumn 1973 , where he recorded the German version of Il mio canto libero with Our free song . The texts were written by Udo Lindenberg .

The incision anima latina

At the end of 1974 Battisti released the album Anima latina under the influence of a trip to South America with Mogol , which is considered particularly ambitious, complex and multifaceted and tries to combine Latin American sounds with forms of expression of progressive rock . The texts are increasingly cryptic, almost esoteric, completely untypical for Mogol's poetry, which is basically inspired by everyday life. Successful songs from the album were Anima latina , whose lyrics Mogol himself described as his best, Due mondi , a duet with the singer Mara Cubeddu , Anonimo and Macchina del tempo . Unexpectedly, the album turned out to be one of the most successful Battistis.

1975–1980: The second half of the Mogol era

Between May and June 1975 Battisti made a trip to the USA, where he visited New York , San Francisco and Los Angeles , most recently together with Mogol and Grazia Letizia; he was looking for new musical inspiration. The RCA suggested to Battisti to publish a best of in English, but he declined because he did not want to deal with the past alone. In addition, the song Ancora tu was written during this trip . On July 16, 1975, Lucio Battisti's two-year-old son Luca narrowly escaped a kidnapping, which the press attributed to the Sardinian bandit group Anonima Sequestri . From that moment on, the Battisti family stayed increasingly in London .

On September 17, in Anzano del Parco Mogol, Battisti, the editor-in-chief of the counterculture magazine Re Nudo Andrea Valcarenghi and several people from the magazine's environment, Nanni Ricordi , Gianfranco Manfredi with his partner Mirella Lisignoli and Cesare Montalbetti with Wanda Spinello, met in the presence of the journalist Renato Marengo . It was about Battisti's new album and his planned participation in the 1976 Festival del proletariato giovanile in Parco Lambro , which was organized by the magazine. Lisignoli and Spinello criticized while Io ti venderei for the machismo of the text. When Marengo made fun of the feminism of Lisignoli and Spinello in an article for Nuovo Sound on December 12th , it was upset with Re Nudo and the collaboration was canceled.

Battisti recorded video clips of Ancora tu and La compagnia in September, directed by Ruggero Miti and Cesare Montalbetti . In January 1976 Battisti left the song Un uomo che ti ama to Bruno Lauzi and Io ti venderei Patty Pravo ; Ancora tu was offered to Mina, but she refused. In February his new album was finally released, inspired by disco music and entitled Lucio Battisti, la batteria, il contrabbasso, eccetera . The single was Ancora tu / Dove arriva quel cespuglio . The album sold around 500,000 copies and was again among the most successful of the year.

On September 3, 1976, Battisti finally married Grazia Letizia Veronese in civil marriage .

Following on from the RCA offer from the previous year, Battisti began to work on an album in English. He engaged Marva Jan Marrow to translate the texts . The recordings were made in California . But Mogol, who disagreed with the translation, passed the task on to Peter Powell . The Italian counterpart to the planned album was released in March 1977 under the title Io tu noi tutti , with the single Amarsi un po '/ Sì, viaggiare .

The English-language album was finally released in August in English-speaking countries under the title Images . It contained most of the songs from Io tu noi tutti as well as La canzone del sole and Il mio canto libero . The album flopped, however, which is attributed to Battisti's poor English pronunciation, the literal translations, but also the inadequate application by the RCA. RCA Italiana then released the album in Italy, where it had little success.

In October 1978 Battisti released his next regular studio album Una donna per amico , along with the single Una donna per amico / Nessun dolore . Una donna per amico was again an enormous sales success. Battisti then planned another English-language album entitled Friends or A Woman as a Friend; but due to a lack of prospects of success, he was dissuaded from it again. Only Baby It's You ( Ancora tu ) and Lady ( Donna selvaggia donna ) were released as singles in 1979, without notable success. Other previously recorded songs on the album are now circulating on the Internet .

In February 1980 the album Una giornata uggiosa was released , accompanied by the single Una giornata uggiosa / Con il nastro rosa . Battisti appeared on television for the very last time on July 4, 1980, with a playback performance by Amore mio di provincia as part of the Swiss television program "Music & Guests" .

The end of the collaboration with Mogol

After Una giornata uggiosa , Battisti's no more albums with texts by Mogol followed. The separation, which took place quietly and without a fight, was mainly due to different artistic ideas of the two: While Mogol remained connected to tradition, Battisti wanted to experiment. In addition, there were disagreements about the royalties: Both Battisti and Mogol each received a quarter of the income; But in the joint publishing house Acqua azzurra , to which half of the income went, Battisti held a share of 40%, whereas Mogol only held 10%. Mogol disagreed with this situation and called for quotas to be adjusted, but Battisti ignored this request. Mogol now continued his work with Riccardo Cocciante ; Battisti, however, first found new lyricists in Velezia (pseudonym of his wife Grazia Letizia Veronese) and then in Pasquale Panella.

According to Mogol

1981–1985: E già and the meeting with Panella

After the end of the collaboration with Mogol, Battisti initially pursued hobbies such as windsurfing (together with his friend Adriano Pappalardo ). In September 1982 he brought out the next album E già , which differed in many ways from its predecessors: The songs were shorter (only one of twelve was longer than four minutes) and the music was now purely electronic. Battisti's wife Grazia Letizia Veronese is listed as lyricist under the pseudonym Velezia , even if Battisti herself is at least suspected as a co-author due to many autobiographical references. This album was also able to reach the top of the chart, even if it sold less than its predecessor. E già is considered a radical turning point in Battisti's musical output.

In 1982 and 1983 the singer worked with Adriano Pappalardo on his albums Immersione and Oh! Era ora . There he met the Roman lyricist Pasquale Panella , who wrote the lyrics for Oh! Era had written.

1986–1994: The collaboration with Pasquale Panella

The cover of the album Hegel (1994). Like the other album covers of the phase with Panella, it is kept in white, which is why it is often referred to as the “white period” (periodo bianco) .

The last creative phase of the musician began in the second half of the 1980s with the collaboration between Lucio Battisti and Pasquale Panella. Five albums were released which, based on E già, tried a lot of new things musically (with the influences of rap , techno or eurodance ); Panella's texts were difficult to understand compared to Mogol's, full of puns and ambiguities. Battisti deliberately refrained from advertising through the media, and the reception of the albums by audiences and critics was very mixed.

In March 1986, the album Don Giovanni was released . The music was less electronically influenced than that of its predecessor E già . The critics were divided: While Michele Serra found that the album overshadowed large parts of the Italian pop music of the past ten years (Don Giovanni ridimensiona gran parte della musica leggera degli ultimi dieci anni) Gianfranco Manfredi described it straight away as "annoying" (il disco è una palla) . Nonetheless , Don Giovanni proved to be a commercial success with sales of over 350,000 copies .

The album L'apparenza followed on October 7, 1988 . At Panella's suggestion, the songwriting process for this album (and all of the following) was reversed, so Battisti only composed the music after Panella's lyrics; traditional song structures came into play less and less. The album sold worse than its predecessor, with little more than 200,000 copies sold. Next, La sposa occidentale appeared on October 10, 1990 , for the first time on the CBS label . It didn't turn out to be a particular success. The audience began to long for old Battisti, and imitators of the singer managed to achieve great popularity.

On October 6, 1992, he released Cosa succederà alla ragazza , this time on the Columbia label , an album on which the influence of rap and techno was clearly felt. Sales fell again and criticism was split again: Mario Luzzatto Fegiz described Cosa succederà alla ragazza as an album "without love, a nightmare" (" Cosa succederà alla ragazza è un disco senza amore, un incubo") Alfredo Saitto called it an insult to the audience and one's own music (“insulto al suo pubblico e alla sua stessa musica”), Fabrizio Zampa felt reminded of the “sufferings of Fantozzi in the cine club” (“ricorda le sofferenze di Fantozzi al cineclub”, an allusion to the Film Il secondo tragico Fantozzi ), while Marco Mangiarotti, on the contrary, saw it as “another masterpiece” (un altro capolavoro) .

In the summer of 1993 Battisti met Adriano Celentano , with whom he was planning a joint album with Mina , which was to be entitled H2O . Despite initial agreement on the project, after communication difficulties, nothing came of it in the end.

In January 1994, Battisti decided not to renew the current contract with Sony . Therefore, his next album Hegel was released on September 29th again on Numero Uno. This time the music was characterized by Eurodance , the lyrics, however, refer (like the title) to the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Again it was not a success worth mentioning, and the critics once again disagreed: Sandro Veronesi said that on closer inspection the album shows how small the current Italian music is in contrast to it (ma esaminato poco più attentamente [...] finisce di farci vedere quanto è piccina, in confronto, l'attuale musica italiana) , while Gigio Rancilio saw an “unacceptable scandal” in Battisti's music (uno scandalo non più accettabile) . With the publication of Hegel , Panella declared that she would not write any more texts for Battisti.

1994–1998: The last years and death

In the following years rumors of a possible rapprochement between Battisti and Mogol made the rounds, but they did not materialize. A new album also remained a rumor. On February 27, 1997, the asteroid (9115) Battisti was discovered, which was subsequently named after the musician. In the summer of 1997, the rubric abbattistamenti was introduced on Rai 1 in the program Va ora in onda , during which fans could report possible sightings (“avvistamenti”) Lucio Battistis.

While waiting for a new album by the singer, journalist Franco Zanetti made an April Fool's joke in 1998 : on March 30, he announced on the rockol.it website that Lucio Battisti would publish his new album L'asola online via the website luciobattisti.com . This message was picked up and distributed by many media (such as the Corriere della Sera or La Repubblica ). The very next day, Zanetti exposed the whole thing as a joke. Nonetheless, L'asola was often incorrectly named as Battisti's last album.

Between August 29 and 30, 1998, it became known that Battisti had been admitted to a Milan hospital. During the eleven-day stay, no medical report was made public at the family's request. On September 6th his condition worsened and on the 8th he was transferred to the intensive care unit of the Ospedale San Paolo . Lucio Battisti died there on the morning of September 9, 1998 at the age of only 55; the cause of death was never officially announced. The medical report only said that the patient had died due to complications in the context of a disease that was serious from the start (“è deceduto per intervenute complicanze in un quadro clinico severo sin dall'esordio”). Speculations suggested a tumor or glomerulonephritis . The funeral took place in a close circle in Molteno; Mogol was among the mourners.

From 1998 to present: recent events

Battisti is still very popular in Italy today.

His widow Grazia Letizia Veronese maintains strict about the estate of singer and has repeatedly legal action against events (at the festival around 2006 Un'avventura, le emozioni in Molteno ) or album and video releases (about the video of Delta V to così Prendila 2004 , a DVD by Dik Dik 2005 or the stage show for Ligabues Buonanotte all'Italia 2008, during which Battisti's pictures were used), which earned her criticism from fans.

On September 6, 2013, a few days after the Milan Higher Regional Court ruled in favor of the municipality of Molteno in the legal dispute over the 2006 festival , Battisti's widow had her remains transferred to San Benedetto del Tronto , her own residence, where they were transferred on September 9 Were cremated in 2013. The family villa and the empty grave remained in Molteno.

legacy

Battisti left 19 studio albums. The texts of Mogol entered the collective memory , so that some lines of text in Italian became winged words , for example lo scopriremo solo vivendo (“We will only discover it by living it through”) from Con il nastro rosa , or the phrase una donna per amico ("a woman for a friend") with all its variations, or also come può uno scoglio arginare il mare , from Io vorrei ... non vorrei ... ma se vuoi ... ; In the 1980s, the phrase Le discese ardite e le risalite , also from Io vorrei… non vorrei… ma se vuoi… , was chosen by the Red Brigades as the title of a program publication.

Battisti's great influence on today's music scene is undeniable, and many musicians have expressed their admiration for Battisti, including Claudio Baglioni , David Bowie , Cesare Cremonini , Francesco De Gregori , Zucchero , Gianluca Grignani , Ligabue , Mia Martini , Ennio Morricone , Gianna Nannini , Max Pezzali , Vasco Rossi , Laura Pausini , Marcella Bella , José Feliciano , Pete Townshend or Renato Zero .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1969	Lucio Battisti	IT1 (43 weeks) IT	Ricordi, SMRL 6063 1998 place 10 in the FIMI charts (14 weeks) 2000 edition Dischi d'oro place 70 (3 weeks) 2012 limited edition place 25 (1 week)
1970	Emozioni	IT1 platinum (54 weeks)IT	Ricordi, SMRL 6079 1998 No. 17 in the FIMI charts (17 weeks) 2000 Edition Dischi d'oro No. 16 (11 weeks) Sales: + 50,000
1971	Amore e non amore	IT1 (29 weeks) IT	Ricordi, SMRL 6074
	Lucio Battisti vol. 4th	IT3 (20 weeks) IT	Ricordi, SMRL 6091
1972	Umanamente uomo: il sogno	IT1 (39 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, ZSLN 55060 2007 number 58 in the FIMI charts (4 weeks)
	Il mio canto libero	IT1 gold (43 weeks)IT	Numero Uno, DZSLN 55156 1998 No. 31 in the FIMI charts (4 weeks) 2000 Edition Dischi d'oro No. 27 (9 weeks) Sales: + 25,000
1973	Il nostro caro angelo	IT1 (30 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, DZSLN 55660 2007 place 66 in the FIMI charts (3 weeks)
1974	Anima latina	IT1 (28 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, DZSLN 55675 2007 place 81 in the FIMI charts (2 weeks)
1976	Lucio Battisti, la batteria, il contrabbasso, eccetera	IT1 (35 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, ZSLN 55685 2007 number 44 in the FIMI charts (9 weeks)
1977	Io tu noi tutti	IT1 (29 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, ZPLN 34006 2007 59th place in the FIMI charts (3 weeks)
	Images	IT11 (7 weeks) IT	RCA Victor, PL 11839
1978	Una donna per amico	IT1 (28 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, ZPLN 34036 1998 29th place in the FIMI charts (11 weeks)
1980	Una giornata uggiosa	IT1 (25 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, ZPLN 34084 2007 No. 30 in the FIMI charts (10 weeks)
1982	E già	IT1 (19 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, ZPLN 34182
1986	Don Giovanni	IT1 (20 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, PL 70991 2007 place 75 in the FIMI charts (3 weeks)
1988	L'apparenza	IT2 (18 weeks) IT	Numero Uno, PL 71850 2007 place 87 in the FIMI charts (1 week)
1990	La sposa occidentale	IT3 (12 weeks) IT	CBS
1992	Cosa succederà alla ragazza	IT5 (7 weeks) IT	Sony / Columbia
1994	Hegel	IT5 (6 weeks) IT	Numero Uno

• Lucio Battisti vol. 2 (1970, pure MC publication, RI-K 740.143)

Compilations (selection)

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1974	Superbattisti	IT23 (3 weeks) IT	Ricordi
1985	Lucio Battisti (Blu)	IT19th gold (… Where.)IT	Ricordi sales: + 30,000
1992	Le origini	IT4 (14 weeks) IT	Ricordi / RTI
1995	Le origini vol. 2	IT14 (12 weeks) IT
	Battisti	IT39 (2 weeks) IT
1996	Pensieri, emozioni	IT1 (80 weeks) IT
1998	Gli anni 70	IT6 (10 weeks) IT
	Sì, viaggiare… 1967/1972	IT18 (1 week) IT	published in 1990
	Sì, viaggiare ... 1972/1977	IT34 (1 week) IT	published in 1990
	Sì, viaggiare… 1976/1982	IT29 (1 week) IT	published in 1990
1999	I miti musica: Lucio Battisti	IT2 (9 weeks) IT
	Pensieri, emozioni 2	IT10 (15 weeks) IT
2000	I miti musica: Lucio Battisti vol. 2	IT46 (5 weeks) IT
2004	Le avventure di Lucio Battisti e Mogol	IT2 platinum (228 weeks)IT	Sales: + 60,000
2005	Le avventure di Lucio Battisti e Mogol vol. 2	IT10 (32 weeks) IT
2006	Ti amo	IT28 (13 weeks) IT
	Battisti-Panella. Il cofanetto	IT20 (4 weeks) IT
2007	Il nostro canto libero	IT26 (21 weeks) IT
2008	I successi	IT78 (2 weeks) IT
2009	I capolavori di Battisti-Mogol	IT43 (11 weeks) IT
2010	Le avventure di Lucio Battisti e Mogol (Deluxe Edition)	IT73 (5 weeks) IT	6-CD box
2013	Battisti 70mo	IT15 (17 weeks) IT
2014	Grandi interpreti italiani - Lucio Battisti	IT76 (1 week) IT
2017	Masters	IT1 platinum (45 weeks)IT	Sales: + 50,000
2019	Masters Volume 2	IT7 (6 weeks) IT
	Number one albums	IT14thIT
	Top 10 albums	IT27IT
	Albums in the charts	IT43IT

Singles

• Dolce di giorno / Per una lira (1966)
• Luisa Rossi / Era (1967)

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1968	Balla Linda Lucio Battisti	IT17 (3 weeks) IT	A-side: Prigioniero del mondo
1969	Un'avventura Lucio Battisti	IT15 (9 weeks) IT	B-side: Non è Francesca
	Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara Lucio Battisti Vol. 2	IT3 (19 weeks) IT	B-side: Dieci ragazze
	Mi ritorni in mente Lucio Battisti Vol. 2	IT1 (20 weeks) IT	B-side: 7 e 40
1970	Fiori rosa fiori di pesco Lucio Battisti Vol. 2	IT2 (19 weeks) IT	B-side: Il tempo di the
	Emozioni Emozioni	IT13 (8 weeks) IT	A-side of Anna
	Anna Emozioni	IT1 (18 weeks) IT	B-side by Emozioni
1971	Pensieri e parole Lucio Battisti Vol. 4	IT1 (24 weeks) IT	B-side: Insieme a te sto bene
	Dio mio no amore e non amore	IT5 (12 weeks) IT	B-side: Era
	Le tre verità Lucio Battisti Vol. 4	IT9 (8 weeks) IT	B-side: Supermarket
	So per te	IT12 (3 weeks) IT	B-side of La canzone del sole
	La canzone del sole	IT1 (21 weeks) IT	A-side of Anche per te
1972	Elena no	IT21 (3 weeks) IT	B-side: Una
	I giardini di marzo Umanamente uomo: il sogno	IT1 (21 weeks) IT	B-side: Comunque bella
	Innocenti evasioni Umanamente uomo: il sogno	IT24 (1 week) IT	B-side: Il leone e la gallina
	Il mio canto libero Il mio canto libero	IT1 (28 weeks) IT	B-side: Confusione 2008 number 42 on the FIMI charts
1973	La collina dei ciliegi Il nostro caro angelo	IT1 (22 weeks) IT	A-side of Il nostro caro angelo
	Il nostro caro angelo Il nostro caro angelo	IT13 (5 weeks) IT	B-side of La collina dei ciliegi
1976	Ancora tu Lucio Battisti, la batteria, il contrabbasso, eccetera	IT1 (24 weeks) IT	B-side: Dove arriva quel cespuglio
1977	Amarsi un po ' Io tu noi tutti	IT1 (27 weeks) IT	B-side: Sì, viaggiare
1978	Una donna per amico Una donna per amico	IT1 (25 weeks) IT	B-side: Nessun dolore
1980	Una giornata uggiosa Una giornata uggiosa	IT2 (22 weeks) IT	B-side: Con il nastro rosa
1982	E già E già	IT6 (10 weeks) IT	B-side: Straniero
2008	Io vorrei… non vorrei… ma se vuoi… Il mio canto libero	IT48 (1 week) IT	published 1973
2010	La luce dell'est Il mio canto libero	IT76 (1 week) IT	Album track
2019	29 September Lucio Battisti	IT81 (1 week) IT	published in 1967
	La mia canzone per Maria Lucio Battisti	IT70 (1 week) IT	published 1968 A-side: Io vivrò (senza te)
	Number one singles	IT10IT
	Top 10 singles	IT16IT
	Singles in the charts	IT25thIT

Abroad

France

album

• I giardini di Marzo (1972, Numero Uno / Vogue, LDM 30120)

Singles

• Un'avventura (1969, Ricordi / AZ, SG 65 AZ 10415)
• La canzone del sole / Anche per te (1972, Numero Uno / Vogue, NUV 4092)

Germany

Albums

• Our Free Song (1974, Numero Uno, UNL 407)

Singles

• Luci-ah / You're still beautiful (1974, Numero Uno, 50-16 400)

United Kingdom

Albums

• Images (1977, RCA Victor, PL 31839)

Singles

• To Feel in Love / Only (1977, RCA Victor, PB 6129)
• Baby It's You / Lady (1979, RCA Victor, PB 9439)

Spain

Albums

• Il mio canto libero (1973, RCA Victor, LSP-10497)
• Umanamente uomo: il sogno (1974, RCA Victor, SPL-19169)
• Il nostro caro angelo (1974, RCA Victor, TPL1-9061)
• Anima Latina (1974, RCA Victor, SPL1-9196)
• Lucio Battisti en español - Lucio Battisti, la batteria, il contrabbasso, eccetera (1976, RCA Victor, SPL1-9334)
• Emociones (1977, Numero Uno, PL 31287)
• Amore e non amore (1978, Ricordi / Hispavox, p. 20.037)
• Una donna per amico (1978, Numero Uno, PL-34036)
• Pensieri e parole (1979, Ricordi, 200.237-Z)
• Una triste jornada (1980, Numero Uno, PL 31519)
• E già (1982, Numero Uno, PL 34182)

Singles

• Prigioniero del mondo / Balla Linda (1968, Philips, 360 184 PF)
• Un'avventura / Non è Francesca (1969, Philips, 360 240 PF)
• Dieci ragazze / Acqua azzurra acqua chiara (1969, Philips, 360 254 PF)
• Mi ritorni in mente / 7 e 40 (1970, Philips, 53 60 298)
• Emozioni / Anna (1970, Ricordi, 20 20 028)
• Pensieri e parole / Insieme a te sto bene (1971, Ricordi, 20 20 041)
• La canzone del sole / Anche per te (1972, RCA Victor, 3-10661)
• Il mio canto libero / Confusione (1973, RCA Victor, 3-10863)
• La collina dei ciliegi / Il nostro caro angelo (1973, RCA Victor, TPBO 9049)
• Mi libre canción / Io vorrei… non vorrei… ma se vuoi… (1973, RCA Victor, TPBO 9104)
• Anna / Agua azul, agua clara (1974, Ricordi, 45-1047)
• La colina de las cerezas / Il nostro caro angelo (1974, RCA Victor, TPBO 9118)
• I giardini di marzo / La canzone del sole (1974, RCA Victor, SPBO 9176)
• Anima latina / Due mondi (1974, RCA Victor, SPBO 9264)
• De nuevo tu / Donde llega aquella zarza (1976, RCA Victor, SPBO 9389)
• Respirando / El velero (1976, Numero Uno / RCA Victor, PB 6059)
• Sentir amor / Sí, viajando (1977, Numero Uno, PB 6096)
• Sì, viaggiare / Amarsi un po ' (1977, Numero Uno, PB 7004)
• Sí, viajando / Solos (1977, Numero Uno, PC 6158)
• A song to feel alive / The sun song (1978, Numero Uno, PB 6186)
• Una donna per amico / Nessun dolore (1978, Numero Uno, PB 7110)
• Una muchacha por amigo / Ningún dolor (1979, Numero Uno, PB 6324)
• Una triste jornada / La cinta rosa (1980, Numero Uno, PB 6461)
• E già / Straniero (1982, Numero Uno, PB 7287)

United States

Albums

• Images (1977, RCA Victor, TFL1-1839)
• Una donna per amico (1978, RCA, JB 11079)

Singles

• Il veliero / Respirando (1976, Peters International, PI 441)
• Song to feel alive / Only (1977, RCA, JB 11079)
• Una donna per amico / Nessun dolore (1978, Peters International, PLD 4232)

Other activities

Soccer

Lucio Battisti was part of the very first squad of the Nazionale italiana cantanti (football team made up of Italian singers) during their game against the Nazionale Attori on October 2, 1975. The team was institutionalized in 1981, but Battisti later did not participate.

painting

Battisti was very interested in painting : in an interview with Sogno in December 1970, he named drawing as one of his hobbies; in January 1970 he was photographed drawing comics in an inn; in an interview with Renato Marengo in December 1974, he juxtaposed painting and music and referred to Picasso ; In another interview from 1978 he stated that he worked as an abstract painter (un pittore astratto) in his free time . Pietruccio Montalbetti, a friend of Battisti, said that Lucio considered himself a painter, loved abstract art and was fascinated by the power of colors, but that he was not a painter (credeva d'essere un pittore; amava l'astrattismo, era attratto dai colori, dalla loro potenza, ma pittore non lo era affatto) .

The activity as a painter was limited to leisure. He made very few of his works public, namely a sketch entitled Occhi di sabbia as part of his participation in Sanremo in 1969 and the covers of five albums with Pasquale Panella. A picture of Battisti was later shown briefly in the documentary Pensieri e parole (2004) on Rete 4 , with reference to Battisti's passion for painting.

On March 21, 2009, Battisti's nephew Andrea Barbacane (son of Albarita Battisti) showed some pictures during the television program Striscia la notizia , which apparently came from Battisti. According to Barbacane, this was done at the express request of Lucio's father, Alfiero Battisti, who had recently passed away. These were canvas paintings, which are said to have been created between 1969 and 1972 and which are named after Battisti's songs. The fact that some of the eleven titles ( Macchina del tempo , Prigioniero del mondo , Sognando e risognando , Gente per bene e gente per male , Respirando , Due mondi , La canzone della terra , Una , Una giornata uggiosa , La collina dei ciliegi , Apparenza ) referred to songs that had not yet been written at the time the associated picture was created (in the case of L'apparenza, for example, the deviation is over 15 years).

From September 14th to October 2nd, 2011 in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome the exhibition Battisti, il tratto delle emozioni was held under the direction of Gianni Borgna and Carla Ronga, in which eleven pictures were exhibited. Andrea Barbacane was unable to explain to the journalists why the years of creation differed so much. On October 11th, Battisti's son Luca and widow Grazia Letizia Veronese expressed doubts through their lawyers about the authenticity of the pictures on display. Neither the Fondazione Musica per Roma nor the curators of the exhibition were able to clarify the exact origin of the pictures. Curator Gianni Borgna then stated that the pictures came from the estate of Alfiero Battisti and that there were all indications that they were originals.

mathematics

According to Battisti's father Alfiero, Lucio studied mathematics before his death and was about to graduate.

literature

• Jeff Aliprandi, Ines Aliprandi: Lucio Battisti. La luce dell'estetica. Fratelli Frilli Editori, 2008, ISBN 88-7563-378-9 .
• Alfonso Amodio, Mauro Ronconi: Lucio Battisti. Al di là del mito. Arcana Editore, November 1999, ISBN 88-7966-205-8 .
• Filippo Angora: Nel cuore, nell'anima. Omaggio a Lucio Battisti. Bastogi editore, February 2000, ISBN 88-8185-256-X .
• Francesca Bellino: È ancora vivo! Lucio Battisti risorge attraverso i mezzi di comunicazione. Sottotraccia editore, September 2000, ISBN 88-86351-17-8 .
• Francesca Bellino: Non sarà un'avventura. Lucio Battisti e il jazz italiano. Elleu editore, March 2004, ISBN 88-7476-239-9 .
• Maurizio Bianco: Emozioni. In memoria di Lucio Battisti. L'autore libri editore, 2002, ISBN 88-517-0072-9 .
• Enrico Casarini: Insieme Mina Battisti. 1972: il duetto a Teatro 10 e la fine del sogno italiano. Coniglio Editore, June 2009, ISBN 978-88-6063-200-5 .
• Lidia Castellani, Florian Snyder: Lucio Battisti. La leggenda della musica italiana. Tullio Pironti editore, November 1998, ISBN 88-7937-200-9 .
• Anna Maria Chiarello: Lucio Battisti - Emozioni ischitane. Valentino Editore, December 2008, ISBN 88-87642-26-5 .
• Giammario Fontana: Mogol. Umanamente uomo. Sperling & Kupfer Milano, August 1999, ISBN 88-87018-07-3 .
• Teodoro Forcellini (preface by Luigi Granetto): Battisti contro De André. Il più grande malinteso della musica italiana. Scipione editore, January 2010, ISBN 88-8364-143-4 .
• Paolo Jachia: Capitolo 3. In: La canzone d'autore italiana 1958–1997. Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 1998, pp. 63-70.
• Amalia Mancini: Lucio Battisti, l'enigma dell'esilio. Luigi Pellegrini Editore, May 1999, ISBN 88-8101-061-5 ( cover view ).
• Francesco Marchetti: Dieci canzoni per te. Raccontare Lucio Battisti. Zona editore, 2006, ISBN 88-89702-42-7 .
• Francesco Marchetti: Lucio Battisti. Due ragazzi attraversano l'estate. Sperling & Kupfer editore, March 2008, ISBN 88-6061-222-5 .
• Renato Marengo: Lucio Battisti: la vera storia dell'intervista esclusiva. Coniglio Editore, November 2010, ISBN 978-88-6063-241-8 .
• Andrea Mariotti, Maurizio Macale: Lucio Battisti. Davanti a me c'è un'altra vita: storia di un'anima di musica. Bastogi editore, November 1998, ISBN 88-8185-179-2 .
• Roberto Matano: A Robè… Lucio Battisti: la nascita di un mito. Edited by Michele Neri and Maria Grazia Bazza, Ciliegia bianca editore, October 2002, ISBN 88-900180-4-6 .
• Roberto Matano: Battisti - So it's nato il sogno. Edizioni Piemme, September 2003, ISBN 88-384-7993-3 .
• Manola Mineo: Lucio Battisti. La vita, i grandi successi. Antares editore, September 1998.
• Francesco Mirenzi: Battisti talk. Tutte le interviste alla stampa, radio e televisione. 3rd edition, Coniglio Editore, May 2009, ISBN 978-88-6063-183-1 .
• Cesare Montalbetti: Lucio nelle photography di Cesare Monti. Rizzoli editore, June 2007, ISBN 978-88-17-01604-9 .
• Michele Neri: Lucio Battisti - Discografia mondiale. Tutte le canzoni, le produioni, le collaborazioni. Coniglio Editore, March 2010, ISBN 978-88-6063-099-5 .
• Alberto Paleari: I giardini di Lucio. Un cantautore un poeta un uomo. La sua vita. Sonzogno editore, September 1998, ISBN 88-454-1627-5 .
• Umberto Piancatelli: La vera storia di Lucio Battisti Barbera editore, November 2008, ISBN 978-88-7899-257-3 ( barberaeditore.it PDF).
• Ivano Rebustini: Specchi opposti. Lucio Battisti - gli anni con Panella. Arcana Editore, November 2007, ISBN 978-88-7966-399-1 .
• Cesare Rizzi (Ed.): Enciclopedia del Rock italiano. Arcana Editrice, November 1993, ISBN 88-7966-022-5 .
• Nino Romano: Mi ritorno in mente. La leggenda Lucio Battisti. Edizioni Cà bianca, October 1998, ISBN 88-87446-01-6 .
• Marco Rossi: Battisti-Mogol - Tradizione spirituale ed esoterismo. Ibiskos editore, March 2005, ISBN 88-546-0277-9 ( cover view ).
• Silvio Sabatini: Lucio Battisti. Gremese editore, October 1998, ISBN 88-7742-335-8 .
• Lucio Battisti . In: Gianluca Testani (ed.): Enciclopedia del rock italiano. Arcana Editore, 2007, pp. 58-60.
• Lisa Tibaldi: La canzone del sole. Una storia di trecce bionde, tatting azzurri e innocenza perduta. Zona editore, May 2009, ISBN 978-88-6438-003-2 ( editricezona.it PDF).
• Donato Zoppo: La canzone progressiva. In: Paolo Talanca: Nudi di canzone. Editrice Zona, Arezzo 2010.
• Donato Zoppo: Amore, libertà e censura. Il 1971 di Lucio Battisti. Aereostella, April 2011, ISBN 978-88-96212-19-6 .
• Marta Tedeschini Lalli:  Battisti, Lucio. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2000. Retrieved September 11, 2016.

Web links

• Luciobattisti.info , unofficial website about Battisti
• Discography in the Discografia di Stato
• Discography on HitParadeItalia

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lucio Battisti, 55, Italian Pop Performer . In: The New York Times . September 24, 1998 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 11, 2016]).
2. ↑ Ramon F. Reboiras: Lucio Battisti, cantante italiano. In: El País , September 10, 1998 (Spanish, online , accessed September 11, 2016).
3. ^ Oscar Prudente: Lucio Battisti, un innovatore assoluto. In: VivaVerdi, January / February 2009, p. 6 ( siae.it ( memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), PDF, accessed on September 11, 2016).
4. ↑ Andrea Laffranchi: Ecco tutti gli inediti di Battisti. In: Corriere della Sera , August 30, 2002 ( archiviostorico.corriere.it ( Memento of May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 11, 2016)
5. ↑ Tra album e diritti d'autore reddito di 4 miliardi l'anno. In: Corriere della Sera. September 10, 1998 ( archiviostorico.corriere.it ( Memento of May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 11, 2016).
6. ^ Tullio Lauro, Leo Turrini: Emozioni. Lucio Battisti vita mito note. Zelig, January 1995, ISBN 88-86471-05-X , p. 25.
7. ^ Morto il padre di Lucio Battisti. (No longer available online.) In: Il Messaggero. November 29, 2008, archived from the original on December 5, 2014 ; Retrieved September 11, 2016 (Italian). 
8. ↑ ^{a b} contribution Emozioni - sulle tracce di Lucio Battisti , Rai 2 , July 14, 2011, 00:06:17.
9. ^ ^{A b} Aldo Dalla Vecchia: Intervista ad Alfiero Battisti. "Mio figlio Lucio". In: Due Mondi , September 11, 2003, accessed September 11, 2016
10. ^ Leo Turrini: Battisti. La vita, le canzoni, il mistero. Mondadori, 2008, ISBN 978-88-04-58144-4 , p. 5.
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Paolo Cucco: L'autobiografia di Lucio Battisti. In: Sogno , No. 50–52, 12./19./26. December 1970.
12. ^ Lucio Battisti è nato a Poggio Bustone. In: Spazio in Wind, accessed on September 11, 2016.
13. ↑ Libretto Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale Galileo Galilei (PDF), p. 3, accessed on September 11, 2016.
14. ↑ Gianfranco Salvatore: L'arcobaleno. Storia vera di Lucio Battisti vissuta da Mogol e dagli altri che c'erano. Giunti Editore, October 2000, ISBN 88-09-01805-2 , p. 16 ( books.google.it ).
15. ↑ Me and Lucio Battisti by Enrico Pianori , accessed on September 11, 2016.
16. ↑ Gianfranco Salvatore (2000), pp. 47-48 ( books.google.it ).
17. ↑ Gianfranco Salvatore (2000), pp. 58-60 ( books.google.it ).
18. ↑ Sanremo '66. In: Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana, accessed on September 11, 2016.
19. ↑ La linea verde, la linea gialla, la linea rossa: il dibattito. In: Musica & Memoria, accessed September 11, 2016.
20. ^ Gianfranco Salvatore (2000), p. 101 ( books.google.it ).
21. ^ Gianfranco Salvatore: Mogol-Battisti, l'alchimia del verso cantato. Arte e linguaggio della canzone moderna. Castelvecchi editore, July 1997, ISBN 88-86232-85-3 .
22. ↑ The Grass Roots - Bella Linda. Billboard , accessed September 11, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Francesco Mirenzi: Battisti talk. La vita attraverso le sue parole: interviste, dichiarazioni, pensieri. Castelvecchi editore, October 1998, ISBN 88-8210-087-1 , p. 38.
24. ^ Alfonso Madeo: Sanremo. In: Corriere della Sera. January 31, 1969.
25. ↑ Natalia Aspesi: Sanremo. In: Il Giorno, January 31, 1969.
26. ^ Paolo Panelli: Sanremo. In: Il Messaggero, February 2, 1969.
27. ↑ Un'avventura / Non è Francesca. In: Luciobattisti.info, accessed on September 11, 2016.
28. ^ Renzo Stefanel: Ma c'è qualcosa che non scordo. Lucio Battisti - gli anni con Mogol. Arcana Editore, November 2007, ISBN 978-88-7966-370-0 , p. 25.
29. ↑ Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara / Dieci ragazze. In: Luciobattisti.info, accessed on September 11, 2016.
30. ^ Giuliana Bonomo: La mia non è una voce, è una “non voce”. In: Giovani , May 1, 1969.
31. ^ ^{A b c} Giuliana Bonomo: Vi presento Grazia Letizia Veronese. In: Giovani , June 26, 1969.
32. ↑ Flavio Natalia: Grazia Letizia, la sua 'dama di ferro'. (No longer available online.) ANSA August 31, 2008, archived from the original on September 2, 2012 ; Retrieved September 11, 2016 (Italian). 
33. ↑ Francesco Mirenzi (1998), p. 55.
34. ↑ Vincitori del Festivalbar 1969. In: Festivalbar.it, PromoEsse, accessed on September 11, 2016.
35. ↑ Francesco Mirenzi (1998), p. 62.
36. ↑ ^{a b} Ha vinto il cantante antifestival. In: TV Sorrisi e Canzoni , September 14, 1969.
37. ↑ Mi ritorni in mente / 7 e 40. In: Luciobattisti.info, accessed on September 11, 2016.
38. ↑ Luciano Ceri: Lucio Battisti - Pensieri e parole. Una discografia commentata. Tarab, May 1996, ISBN 88-86675-08-9 , p. 81.
39. ↑ SG Biamonte: Patty Pravo: Il Paradiso. In: Radiocorriere TV, May 25, 1969.
40. ↑ Luciano Ceri: Pensieri e parole. Lucio Battisti: una discografia commentata. Coniglio editore, November 2008, ISBN 978-88-6063-161-9 , entry La prima cosa bella .
41. ^ Fiori rosa, fiori di pesco / Il tempo di morire. In: Luciobattisti.info, accessed on September 11, 2016.
42. ↑ Lucio Battisti: Vado a Roma a cavallo ma non mi riconoscerete. In: TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, June 21, 1970.
43. ^ Lucio Battisti: Ci hanno preso per cow boy. In: TV Sorrisi e canzoni, June 28, 1970.
44. ↑ ^{a b} Lucio Battisti: A Roma solo il tempo di riabbracciare la mamma. In: TV Sorrisi e canzoni, July 26, 1970.
45. ↑ Vincitori del Festivalbar 1970. In: Festivalbar.it, PromoEsse, accessed on September 11, 2016.
46. ↑ ^{a b} Paolo Valente: Lucio Battisti, il conquistatore. In: Sogno, September 12, 1970.
47. ↑ Emozioni / Anna. In: Luciobattisti.info, accessed on September 11, 2016.
48. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gigi Vesigna: Ecco perché dico semper di no! In: TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, July 11, 1971.
49. ↑ Emozioni. In: Luciobattisti.info, accessed on September 11, 2016.
50. ↑ Pensieri e parole / Insieme a te sto bene. In: Luciobattisti.info, accessed on September 11, 2016.
51. ^ Gianfranco Salvatore (2000), p. 159 ( books.google.it ).
52. ^ Battisti e Mogol al Circolo della Stampa. In: Corriere della Sera. April 27, 1971.
53. ^ Gianfranco Salvatore (2000), p. 165 ( books.google.it ).
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