“Anger is useless, hope will make us win the challenge of climate change”. The manifesto of this ‘Rockin’1000 for Romagna’ could only be by Fabio Zaffagnini, the creator and soul of the biggest rock band in the world. 17,000 hearts in the stands and a thousand musicians on the green lawn gave away an evening of music and emotions, two hours that slipped away for the rock enthusiasts who came from all over Italy.
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Twenty songs in the lineup, starting with Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ and ending with Foo Fighters’ ‘Learn to Fly’, and it couldn’t be otherwise. A return to the past, seven years later, it was July 24, 2016 when the Manuzzi stadium was for the first time the setting for the “Thousand” who today perfectly embodied the spirit of the people of Romagna who do not bow to the floods. “We want to give a signal to restart – said Zaffagnini – Romagna has not been bogged down in the mud”.
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A wild audience, many danced in the stands of the Manuzzi which opened its doors at 18:30 on Saturday. Around 8pm, Lodovica Comello took the pulse of the 17,000 who flamed up when the protagonists entered the field at 9pm, the army of a thousand who played in unison with guitars and drums. There was time for a minute of silence for the victims of the flood, for the oath of musicians and also for a poem performed by Tommaso Caporali.
Leading the thousand was not Garibaldi but the conductors Rodrigo D’Erasmo and Daniele Plentz. In the middle of the evening the Radiohead medley by Diodato, guest of honor of the event. “The first impression when I arrived? A blow. This concert is the demonstration that music serves to break down barriers and to feel alive. I would take you all on tour – joked Diodato – but I don’t know if I can afford it”.
Chilling Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, then Zaffagnini took the microphone to talk about the climate: “In recent months there have been many catastrophes, one after the other. The impression is that patches have been put on a worn fabric. We have to start to change, we have to start thinking from an environmentalist point of view. Environmentalists are not jinxes, or birds of ill omen. We have to think about why we have become like this, but anger is not needed, it is only the antechamber of resignation. We have to change things with daily acts of power, think of the mud angels or burdel de paciug, they did the right thing. We have no anger, only hope, and that’s what will make us win”.
At the end, there was no lack of applause for the mega rock-band who rehearsed the songs for days to “transform individual dreams into a collective dream, but it wasn’t a sacrifice – said Zaffagnini – there’s just so much energy here positive”. In a strictly rock lineup the intruder could only be ‘Romagna Mia’ and Moreno il Biondo also arrived on the green lawn of Manuzzi before closing in style with ‘Learn to Fly’.
2023-07-29 22:44:49
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