Zucchero in concert in Padua, the bluesman show that attacks Bezos: “Why does it come to break?”

It is 9.30 pm on the point of Saturday 28 June, when the show starts, in an Euganeo who awaits him with open arms. To get to the stadium, here is a slalom between obstacles, closures and barrier, inside though Sugarvery punctual, does not get to wait in front of the 25 thousand who came to the Venetian stage of theOverdose d’Amore Tour 2025.

The opening of the concert

The colors of “Spirit in the dark”as “doc”, his latest album of unreleased, dating back to 2019. One song of peace, union and peoples Hug you next to each other, the exact opposite of what unfortunately happens in these restless days that push us to question us where the world goes. It is only the beginning, because then we continue with «Soul Mama» And the rhythm rises, until we dive into the unmistakable notes of “The impetuous sea at sunset climbed on the moon and behind a curtain of stars …”, one of his most famous songs in 1989, when sugar with “Gold, incense and beer” He stalled the rankings around the world. Thirty -six years later, an almost seventy -year -old who still holds the scenes in a very good way, makes him dance and fall in love. First stops enchanted in front of “The song that goes away” and to the wonderful “We surrender”whose video was shot in Veneto on the Delta del Po and you also enjoy that guitar acenne of Mark Knopfler who made the unique song.

The notes of the bluesman

Then the atmosphere warms up when Zucchero intones the notes of «Blu» and the public sings, passionate about that Bluesman who traveled the world appreciated everywhere, perhaps even more than in Italy with a very high level qualitatively music for Over forty years of career. That never tires, even in 2025, to reinvigorate an artistic vein never dormant. And that, perhaps, it would only need another unreleased album to refresh a timeless fame. Maybe that long -awaited album will come soon. In the meantime here is “Partisan Reggiano”a game of words that lights the public on the pressing notes that drag up to the explosion of “I see black”perfect to push a group of fans to exhibit the banner “where there is a fur there is love”. You stop for a moment listening to the enveloping melody of «Pene»a 1992 song that still photographs the situation of the present day. “The flight” He brings forward the time of three years, to 1995 and to divine spirit, one of his most beautiful and engaging albums. «Facile» An unpublished ballad in a gospel key, written during the processing of the DOC Deluxe album and published on January 8, 2021, is perfect for enhancing the voice of Ooma Jali, an African American vocalist specialized in Gospel that the public shows that it is particularly welcoming.

The most loved

At 10.20 pm we move on to Top of the repertoirethe immortal “With your hands” Which makes even the most remains from the seat, followed by the famous “only a healthy and conscious libido save the young man from stress and Catholic action”, which in 2025 turns 38 and yet never sets. “Dance” It further raises the temperature when the concert enters the highlight. You say “Dune Mosse” And in front of the eyes the image of Miles Davis flows, with which sugar produced a historic duet in 1987, without forgetting the delicate “Mint and rosemary”.

Towards closing

At 10.45 pm Adelmo da RoncoCesi pretend Of close the curtainThen reappears sitting. And he speaks: «I don’t know why, but I’m linked to Padua and Veneto. They are a people who love and live with irony, eat and have sex ». Then, with sharp irony, it turns to Claudio Baglioni: “I made his debut in Padua in 1989, who tells him, with” gold, incense and beer “, one of the best -selling albums of Italian music”. While sings “a hot breath” on stage the word “Free Palestine” appears, applauded by the public. Lashing irony on the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez («Which was already already
married, but What comes to break I C …? ») And the announcement:” I don’t go to Venice to celebrate, but my seventieth will still be celebrated in Veneto, at the Verona Arena “. Then the touching “Beyond the banks”with a love that transcends time and earthly life. Always sitting on that chair, emotions continue with a sort of medley and in rapid succession “A little help”, “eyes”, “is delicate” and “women”. The standing ovation arrives with “Miserere”, dedicated to Luciano Pavarotti.

The last songs

A moment of pause and glory for the extraordinary band that supports him with three songs outside menu and then returns with the grand finale: the twenty -fourth song is “Etc. etc. From Bluesugar, who precedes the “diamond” timeless masterpiece, dedicated to the Diamante’s grandmother Arduini Fornaciari and “so celestial”, a universal tribute to love that has something sacred and intense, beyond the newspaper. Between sacred and profane here is the rhythm of the two most iconic songs of the sugar discography, “Because of whom” and “Devil in me”. But the concert does not close here, because there is still time to listen «Long As I Can See the Light»a cover that sugar recorded in 2004 together with John Lee Hooker, a legendary Blues icon and for “Chaocabeck”, a 2010 song inspired by a Reggio dialectal word which means, more or less, “almost empty mouth”. The curtain closes at midnight and a half, after three hours in concert and with the wonderful «Hey Man»written with Gino Paoli and who speaks of isolation and solidarity between “street companions”. Because after all Zucchero is a street companion who never abandoned you, since that distant 1983, where his first album “a little sugar” came out. Forty -two years later, he is still there, on that stage that for him is like a second home.

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