“Lucio Dalla saved me, I wanted to kill myself”

“Lucio Dalla saved me. I wanted to kill myself with the car, but I drove too well…”. Antonello You sold he admits to Domenica In, in a long interview with Mara Venier. The singer-songwriter remixes the tape and goes back to the early 80s. “Lucio Dalla saved me, everyone knows it. One of the problems in our life is depression, which leads to loneliness and the idea of ​​suicide that seems to have become common. He noticed in 1980. I had nothing, but he had to leave Rome. He took me to Carimate, to Milan.

“In Carimate there were two studios: De Andrè, Lucio, Pooh, Pino Daniele… In the evening, when we had finished our sessions, we were together and we talked. The bad idea was it was over, I wanted to kill myself with the car.

“The pain of living went away with the love I received, that I felt. I did a real cure at the Circus Maximus” in 1983 in the concert “after the first competition at Roma. I felt that there was no dystonia between me and the others. I didn’t like myself, I tended towards perfectionism and it’s often the ones who tend to. towards the perfection of the most fragile,” he continues.