The protagonist of Sanremo and a roller for the summer

September will not come. Peppino Gagliardi, the lion of the old guard in Naples, died at the age of 83 on May 25. When he was 80, in complete lockdown, he belittled himself as a scugnizziello, like a scugnizziello who, despite his age, remained, despite the decision to live in Rome: «Suppose I am 40 twice, but in euros it is half, compared to the lira. And I will be 18 years old until the end.

Who was Peppino Gagliardi?

The recording’s debut, in 1962, isn’t one of those historic moments few remember. He listened to Ray Charles and Joe Tex, but also the great French songwriters, had the classic Neapolitan melody in him, and in ’63 he produced the song “T’amo e t’amerò”, in which he found himself in the center of it all: «I walked through Toledo and it was From all the shops you hear my song. But I did not understand what was happening to me.” Other songs followed after that was the song “T’amo e t’amerò”, which also achieved great success in Arab countries, such as “What Want this music tonight” (1968, it was on the soundtrack for Profumo di donna), “Settembre” (1970, ranked second “Record for the Summer”). Moved from the Naples Festivals (in 1963 with “Maje”; in 1964 with “Nisciuno ‘o ppo’ capì”, written by him with Gaetano Amendola, his repertory poet, and “Mparame a vule ‘bene”; in 1966 with “Scriveme” by Murolo and “Solemala” by Pazzaglia and Modugno; in 1969 with “”O scugnizzo”, third place) to those of Sanremo (in 65 with “Ti credo” co-written with Timi Yuro; in 1966 with “Se tu I wasn’t here” by Carlo Alberto Rossi, voiced by Pat Boone and then reprized by Mina; in 68 with “Che vale per me” , again by C.A. Rossi, with Eartha Kitt; in 1972, “Come le viole” was re-released at the second in 2006 by Giuliano Palma, among his superfans, with Benny Anderson of ABBA and Alvaro Soler).

They called him the “singer of neurotic love” because his compositions, melodic and inventive, and nasal singing, with delicate vocals, were hard to spot, the result of wanting something new and not breaking with tradition.

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