Via Cravos 2. In Pavia the locked gate of the “Celebrità”, a loud temple of the 883 epic now transformed into a car park, still seems to protect the nostalgic memories of Max Pezzali, who in the new single Discoteche abandoned on the radio from today lets himself ensnared precisely by the unadorned charm of those former paradises all mirrors, edges and stroboscopic lights. “Pavia was a city of the two discos and 106 pharmacies of the song, now only the 106 pharmacies remain” he says winking at the lyrics of Con un deca while walking through his hometown. “The two discos, the Doking and the Celebrità, were places where we kids discovered elsewhere, a kind of sun dance, a ritual of passage from adolescence to adulthood.”
Written with Jacopo Ettorre and Michele Canova, who also takes care of the production, Pezzali’s new single comes from the desolate images of the photographic volume Disco Mute, created by Alessandro Tesei and Davide Calloni in the cathedrals of the night now in ruins. “Old venues from the 1980s and 2000s that didn’t exist were able to withstand the impact of modernity and of having been transformed into the scapegoat for youth problems that remained even after their closure, clearly proving that the problem he wasn’t there,” says Max, 56. “Worlds now distant, vandalized by man, corroded by time and forgotten by history, transformed by degradation in my eyes as a former habitué almost into relics of disappeared civilisations. Like Atlantis”. The same ones that overflow from the Tesei and Calloni volume in the images of the video clip of Discoteche abandoned (dedicated to Claudio Coccoluto) together with the testimonies of Albertino, Fargetta, Ralf, Molella, Joe T Vannelli, Alex Neri, Benny Benassi and other venerated console gladiators .
The single will also enter the repertoire of Max’s stadium tour, starting on June 9th in Trieste, as part of a “very cartoon” show played on the idea of transforming the protagonists of 883’s songs into real characters. But Abandoned Discoteche is also preparing to become a comic book, the second in the series created by Pezzali and written by Roberto Recchioni, due out in May. “There is also a Sky series coming soon, entitled They Killed Spider-Man – The true story of the 883 produced by Greenlandia and directed by Sydney Sibilia” anticipates the man from Come mai: “It comes from the stories of my autobiography The Cowboys they never give up and almost all of Pavia has been filmed. It seems that the authors are already working on the second season.”
Heirs? At the moment perhaps Pinguini Tattici Nucleari: “Riccardo Zanotti is much stronger than me at writing songs, because he has a more complete and complex writing style, which I see as a 2.0 version of what I was trying to do then” concludes Max.
