Claudio Lolli
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Claudio Lolli is an Italian
singer-songwriter, poet, writer and secondary school teacher.
introduced him into the music company EMI Italiana
, who edited his first four LP from 1972 to 1976. The themes of his albums are incentered into political issues, as for example the album Un uomo in crisi he follows the events of Antonio Gramsci
's life, but also in personal event of life, as the song "quando la morte avrà" (when the death will have).
His main success are the songs "Ho visto anche degli zingari felici", "Aspettando Godot", "Michel", "Quando la morte avrà", "Quanto amore", "Borghesia", that are nowadays recognized as classic songs of Italian popular music of the 1970s.
He started his career as a writer in the early 1080s and he has written five novels in twenty years. Antipatici antipodi, his first work, that Lolli started writing in 1972, was published in 1997.
Italy
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singer-songwriter, poet, writer and secondary school teacher.
Biography
His first musical experiences started in the early 70s into the Osteria delle Dame of Bologna. Francesco GucciniFrancesco Guccini
Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics...
introduced him into the music company EMI Italiana
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
, who edited his first four LP from 1972 to 1976. The themes of his albums are incentered into political issues, as for example the album Un uomo in crisi he follows the events of Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
's life, but also in personal event of life, as the song "quando la morte avrà" (when the death will have).
His main success are the songs "Ho visto anche degli zingari felici", "Aspettando Godot", "Michel", "Quando la morte avrà", "Quanto amore", "Borghesia", that are nowadays recognized as classic songs of Italian popular music of the 1970s.
He started his career as a writer in the early 1080s and he has written five novels in twenty years. Antipatici antipodi, his first work, that Lolli started writing in 1972, was published in 1997.
Albums
- Aspettando Godot (1972)
- Un uomo in crisi. Canzoni di morte. Canzoni di vita (13/3/1973)
- Canzoni di rabbia (10/2/1975)
- Ho visto anche degli zingari felici (7/4/1976)
- Disoccupate le strade dai sogni (1977)
- Extranei (30/4/1980)
- Antipatici antipodi (1/3/1983)
- Claudio Lolli (6/5/1988)
- Nove pezzi facili (1992)
- Intermittenze del cuore (1997)
- Viaggio in Italia (1998)
- Dalla parte del torto (2000)
- La terra, la luna e l'abbondanza [live] (2002)
- Ho visto anche degli zingari felici [live] (4/2003)
- La via del mare [live] (29/10/2005)
- La scoperta dell'America (7/4/2006)
45 rpm
- Aspettando Godot/Michel (9/11/1972)
- Un uomo in crisi/La guerra è finita (30/5/1973)
- Analfabetizzazione/I giornali di marzo (1977)
Anthologies
- Piazza... strade... sogni, 1995
- Collezione, 15/2/2001
- Made in Italy, 25/2/2004
- Studio collection, 23/9/2005
- Claudio Lolli: the best of platinum, 9/3/2007