“They don't seem like much to me ,” said Mogol, listening to two songs by Lucio Battisti . It was the first time the singer and the lyricist had met, introduced by the director of a music publishing house, Cristine Leroux . It was the first time that the most well-known, celebrated and sung duo of Italian music authors had met and nothing let us predict. Giulio Rapetti , aka Mogol, told the anecdote in an interview with Il Corriere della Sera , in view of next March 5 , when Battisti would have turned 80 .
“I hadn't guessed anything,” Mogol admitted. “But the third song was 29 settembre which became a success for Equipe 84. At first Lucio didn't want to sing, I had to insist before convincing him”. They met in Molteno , at Mogol's country villa, they wrote one song a day, My free song the most successful. “He was a mathematician. He studied the songs of the greatest world artists seven hours a day, one day he told me that he had concentrated only on the breaks of some hits. I was the literary part, he called me 'the poet' . I have always written the words after the music because I believe that every musical phrase already has its own meaning”.
Just My free song and the "woods of outstretched arms" of Cherry Hill were interpreted politically, in years in which everything was read in a political key, as pro-fascist, right-wing celebrations. “Those arms weren't a political symbol. They also said it for those on the cover of Il mio canto libero . But they are arms with palms open as if invoking the Lord . They wanted to call me a fascist because I didn't make committed songs. I've never heard Lucio talk about politics: we just didn't write songs for communism . However, Lucio's records were found in the Br hideout: it is a historical fact ".
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