“I bring joy with rock A live also brings together the cinema” – Corriere.it

“You never celebrate enough for what you suffer. And now it’s more than right to celebrate. We have come out of two terrible years, we have to start living again. Restarting with live shows gave us very powerful sensations, not all of them beautiful, some even of fright, others of crazy joy ». Blasco calls and, as tradition has it, his people respond. In this case the occasion is the preview at the Moderno The Space cinema in Rome of Vasco live Rome, Circus Maximus shot by Pepsy Romanoff on the two Roman dates (11 and 12 June) of the Renaissance tour, in front of 140 thousand fans. The film that will be in cinemas on November 14, 15 and 16 (with Adler Entertain) is the faithful chronicle of the two Capitoline concerts. “Do you remember? Last year these days we didn’t know anything, not even if there were going to be other tours, then from March 31st it was understood that we could start again. We were the first and we exploded. We brought some joy, the artists do that. We are experiencing one of the most terrible moments in the history of humanity ». The tour, he recalls, had “frightening numbers”: 701 thousand spectators “You are the frightening numbers. Once again the tour with the most spectators was mine, many are young. And I, I’m still here. Maybe it’s the last time », he throws there. Even if the of him rebel. “Some of you have come more than once. But maybe we don’t say sold out anymore, now they all make them, they use them a little maliciously », Komandante jokes but not too much. In June he promised it from the stage of the Circus Maximus. «Welcome back! Long last. It has been a long time, but we are not going away anymore ». And, despite the jokes, he seems intent on keeping his word. He announces the eight new dates for June 2023: from 6 and 7 in Bologna, up to 28 and 29 in Salerno. «Let’s leave home. Then on 16 and 17 Olympic, and 22 and 23 in Palermo. The Barbera stadium reopens after 30 years, I played at the Velodrome, they finally give me the stadium. I have open accounts with Salerno, at the Palermo tankers’ barracks ». He joined the military.

The golden she-wolf

«I hope to give them concerts. I don’t know how it will go, I don’t know if there will be a nuclear Holocaust or the end of the world … ». He has little desire to joke about this. “These are dark, terrible times. I was born after the war, who thought about it? Music is always pacification, it is against war. He works for the forces of good but I fear that those of evil are now stronger ». Music, he insists, “can’t do anything, it can try to bring joy. A concert is a moment of great and vital aggregation, and it is also a moment indoors in a cinema ». For the fans, the problem doesn’t even arise. The most romantic, a couple, arrived at Piazza della Repubblica with the tent, already on Monday evening. Hundreds of patients awaited, the anonymous Vasculists, other organized groups, the maverick dogs. All for Blasco, unconditionally to review what they know by heart. The film, shot with 27 cameras, retraces the two and a half hour concert schedule, from XI comandamento to Albachiara, with the classics and pieces retrieved from the Eighties as Love help never sung live before. «The story of the film is the concert». No interlude this time, far from the doc The Decalogue of Vasco by Fabio Masi with which he had filled the Lido of Venice with fans in 2015. His Roman holidays continue today, he is awaited in the Campidoglio by the Mayor Gualtieri for the delivery of the Golden Wolf . «I am touched. Rome is an extraordinary city, here I feel at home, and also a guest. The she-wolf? I am touched. I know that it is granted to particular personalities, among these they tell me there were Alberto Sordi and Sean Connery ». His relationship with Rome began 50 years ago. Matters of the heart. “The first time I came, I must have been 20 and I was chasing a Roman girl I had met in Zocca.” The love story continued with the city. “I courted her for many years before conquering her.” And we are, again, here.