Achille Lauro, where are we?
“I’ve always done different things, taking responsibility for errors.”
And failures.
“Let’s say I know how to fail with great enthusiasm.”
Yes but now?
“It was a beautiful year, first desperate love and X Factor, then a beautiful Sanremo and the success of unconscious young people, now a song with the dedication to my city, Amor”.
And the two concerts at the Circus Maximus, last night and then on July 1st.
“But now I can also say that I will be at the Olimpico in Rome on June 10, 2026, we will open the season live.”
But then at what point are we?
“I’d like to do something unpredictable, something more similar to Queen’s ideas.”
I Queen?
«Yes, but be careful. I started from the zoo bar on the Nomentana and I understood that the success is not achieved by emulating someone else. It takes recognizes, Bruno Mars or Michael Jackson recognizes them however regardless of what they sing. When you are successful, you have to break the rules ».
Last night Achille Lauro sang at the Circus Maximus of Rome, two hours of concert with 29 songs in the lineup, the preview of a tour in the buildings that equal March 4 from Eboli and is already all sold out. “Success is to survive the stumbles, when something does not work, you have to understand why”. He tries and even if, as he says, in the choices it was “a crazy flipper”, today he is still a recognizable artist with a sequel to the public who goes far beyond music. “It was understood that when I put the member of Sanremo I was not a simple joke,” he says referring to the festival a few years ago. Certainly to this artist outside the rules, thirty -five years in ten days, there is no lack of talent to tell himself even outside the stage, as he did yesterday before climbing the scene: “Now I do the Circus Maximus and then again X Factor and the whole 2026 I dedicate it to live music”, he explains in his euphoria of hyperboli and sparkling images. He had little fear of making mistakes and, when he had it, he did it with class: “I spent 400 thousand euros to make one evening at the Eurovision Song Contest, I wouldn’t call him a success”, he jokes because he knows so much more. For example, playing in the stadiums. Now he has announced the Rome Olimpico, but San Siro will certainly also arrive.
Yes, however, today, dear Lauro, there is a lot of talk about the gigantism of the shows and the racing foiled to the sold out.
«Without a doubt I don’t like to bring everything back to the numbers. There were beautiful projects that have not been successful but they remained beautiful. Don’t you fill a stadium today? You will fill it tomorrow. The careers are evaluated overall ».
And the concerts?
«I do now are essentially musical, I worked on the lineup, we rearranged the songs. I made unlitting choices, now it’s time to focus on music ».
Otherwise the risk is that on social media on the big event it is reduced to a single marginal controversy. Like the one on Marco Mengoni’s corsets.
«I think Mengoni is quite large, personally and professionally, to resist. And I’m not sure what can say what it can do and what is not. I think if an artist has the opportunity to do great things it is right that he does them. Then others maybe follow him ».
He made the last Sanremo. Will you do the next?
«I do not exclude the return, to mention Franco Califano. But it is also true that I haven’t stopped even half an hour since I finished the last one ».
Behind the scenes of the Ariston he sang what a honey that you are with Antonello Venditti. When will it come out?
“I don’t know. I grew up with that song, for me it was already sufficient to sing it with the teacher ».
