“I survived the boredom”, the “lead years”, the “drinking years” and hedonism “, the” 90s, when at the height of a career I wanted to start a family, have a child ” , “I also survived three fatal diseases, in 2011, when I went into a coma three or four times” and “I will survive this too” Covid. Vasco Rossi confesses in a long letter published in the pages of Vanity Fair, in response to Cesare Cremonini, editor for an issue of the magazine.
Vasco defines himself as a “survivor”, indeed a “Super Lived!” for having faced various problems throughout his life and career. And he says to Cremonini: «I embrace you and … I’ll give you some news: I have a new song (and a new record) that will be released on January 1st 2021 and … It will be a love song».
During the long letter, Vasco retraces his artistic career, from his first experiences on radio in the 70s to his successes: “Living in Zocca I knew that you had to start from there because if you are retired you are fine, but at 20 ‘is nothing to do. My train was called Punto Radio, one of the first “pirate” or “free” radios, which I founded in the 70s with my group of historical friends and which had a huge success », he says. And speaking of the 1970s, «the years of lead, the Red Brigades, Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio. I was a metropolitan Indian – says the rocker – I was trying to improve myself because I was the anarchist man and, frankly, to me the people who called themselves “Power worker” and were students, like the others who were called “Lotta continue ”, and then in the afternoon they all went home to their parents… Because they were students…».
But not only: “I survived the feminist who massacred me with words, sincerity and dialogue in the couple first, and then at my first confession of betrayal she dumped me!”. And then again the «80s, the years” to drink “and hedonism. I survived the drugs and the excesses of those years. I’ve been a lot of bullshit, but I’ve also paid for it all. The 80s, the stupidest ones of the century but also the most beautiful and funny and, for me, the irreverent years of Fault of Alfredo, of Whenever, of Reckless life and of Bubbles”. And the 90s, “those of dreams that come true, full stadiums and the first awareness that inspired me songs like The Angels“. Then «I survived 2000! To the millennium bug – continues Vasco Rossi – with a song I am very fond of: The end of the millennium. When friends started dying around, Lolli, Massimo, Marietto… And I went into depression. Here, I also survived that depression there. And I faced the 1910s. And even there, I always went on writing “honest and sincere” songs, with the same consistency, not to sell or please, but to provoke ».
“Always looking for a meaning, always a little uncomfortable and full of questions to which I have yet to find answers, between” living or nothing “- concludes Vasco – I made my choices and I managed to get here, up to to 2020, when this global catastrophe called Covid broke out. This fucking Covid. Here, I think I’ll survive this too … Or maybe, though, you know what is there? There is that I will die of boredom for the lockdown … ». But then he confesses that he has been busy and has a “new song (and a new record) coming out on January 1, 2021 and … It will be a love song”.
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