Stefano Rosso

Stefano Rosso, unwittingly, to a provocation, maybe or maybe not premeditated, marked the end of all utopias, which is rife in those years. This is not opened the way for a phase of intelligent and critical review of all extremism, but only in an era of personal business and individual benefits. Yes, the cheerful music, dissacratoria, ironic, popular Red made from the background to a historic transformation: it was the end of eschimi, the military jackets with red scarves and the arrival of jackets, shirts and neckties well stretched, a young po 'aged, ex-sessantottini, which is transformed into good bourgeois. Yes, laid the symbols of the revolution and within the ranks of the middle class, with the difference that had no moral limits, ideals, nor confident Many became social climbers, yuppies in the English version (known speculators and unscrupulous businessmen of the Eighties) , Which is enriched and made magnificent social climbing, in many cases also ended in catastrophic falls. Perhaps Stefano Rosso did not want to mark all this, but certainly his most popular song, perhaps the most pleasant, still echoes in many ears. I do not know how many followed the call of a spassarsela singer with a guitar and a joint, with the right girl, convinced that nothing else would be. I hope that few people were put into practice this advice, however, were many, in those years of disenchantment, to slide into oblivion instead of exclusion, just for Spinelli: sorry if some 'drastic and enemy of drugs well read, but I saw several tragedies, the good guys finished badly for believing that life was just fine with a guitar and a joint. Today the situation is very different and some situations are far, seem even naive. Just remember this song has characterized, perhaps, not always a good career Rosso. Instead have fallen like dead leaves hopes, the dreams of that generation.
Arduino Rossi