Moving memories of Roberto Vecchioni for Peppe Vessicchio. In 2011, to perform ‘Chiamami anchor amore’ at the Sanremo Festival, which went on to win that edition, the singer-songwriter called on the conductor, who had triumphed the previous year with Valerio Scanu. First in ‘In altre parole’, the program on La7 hosted by Massimo Gramellini, then in his social profiles, Vecchioni remembered his late friend.
“And who could ever forget that Sanremo? That song, the hug… the first person I hugged was you. You hugged me so tightly that you got into my side, and I cried not only with joy but also with pain – recalls Vecchioni – It was as if the music, our music, had disappeared, with your laugh like a true and brilliant Neapolitan. I will remember you like this, with your stick raised to paint the sky”.
