A few days from maturity testsa song that captivated is back in the spotlight generations and generations: Night before examspublished in 1984 by Antonello Venditti in the album Heart. TO forty years away from that record and thattimeless successthe Roman singer-songwriter talks about himself in a long interview with Corriere della Serain which it also touches private topics, like the end of the marriage with Simona Izzowhich lasted from 1975 to 1978: «At the time of my separation, Lucio Dalla saved my life».
«He is the friend of We need a friend (also that song included in Hearted.), understood that in that period I had to get away from Rome» reveals Venditti. «I lived like this for two years to the castle of Carimate, in Brianza, where the greatest Italian artists came to record their records: Pino Daniele, Pooh, Fabrizio De André, with whom I spent the nights talking. But they left on Friday and… I was left alone, on the brink of the abyss. I would enter a place and have to leave. Everything scared me. I was afraid of myself, of not being loved.”
«And also of go on stage», states the singer, who has just turned 75. «Several times I thought about ending it. Maybe crashing in the car, then I was afraid of hurting others. After two years Lucio understood that it was for me time to return to Romethe city where Simona and my child, Francis Xavier. Tremendous anguish. He found me home, at Trastevereand convinced me to resume concerts. What if I managed to be a father? Yes, even from afar, telepathically. We found ourselves on the same path with him wavelength».
A joke also about Italian political situation. «There is a climate that I don’t like, I hoped that the right would be satisfied with an electoral victory. Finally we returned to one pre-Berlusconi situation, at the time of the Social Movement. I’m struck by how often they repeat themselves the word “nation”. Which does not exist in our Constitution, the State exists», concludes Venditti. «Giorgia Meloni? He’s a doer. She wakes up in the morning and tries to repair damage and abuse due to the unpreparedness of many who there surround».
