On Saturday at 6.30 pm in Bologna a large crowd gathered around Cesare Cremonini, the native singer-songwriter, linked to his city that he has honored since the days of Lunapop. In fact, according to the very successful custom, inaugurated last year, the Christmas lights of Bologna pay homage to the lyrics of its singers. Last year it was the turn of Lucio Dalla , the singer-songwriter par excellence from Bologna, whose text of “ L’anno che verra ” warmed people’s hearts. A nice initiative to give Christmas a more poetic touch.
This year, however, Cesare Cremonini turns on the lights scattered through the streets of the city: the song chosen is the recent “Nobody wants to be Robin”, a song that, as Cremonini himself says, “brings back and remembers the great Lucio Dalla, who has always teacher of inspiration “.
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“I’m excited, I’m happy, I would like to applaud Lucio Dalla who today is certainly here with us and who for me represents the spiritual father of the Bolognese songwriting and musical tradition. “In this way he thanks Cesare Cremonini Lucio Dalla, excited to be in front of his city, which for Christmas lights up with the words of his song “Nobody wants to be Robin”.
“I know the story of each of my songs and I chose this song because, among the last ones, it is the one that is most linked to Bologna – says Cesare Cremonini himself shortly before the countdown for the lighting of the lights and continues -. This text pays homage to all the Robins who live today, those who make less noise and live more on the sidelines, but who are the people that Bologna, generous and example for others, needs most “.
Thus the words of the text light up:
“You too have realized that we are all more alone
All with the number ten on their backs, and then we miss the penalties.
You too have noticed that in this world of heroes
Nobody wants to be Robin ” dedicates it to Bologna
Cesare Cremonini in an Instagram post thanks his city, paying homage to it in every corner and in each of its porches. In this touching and sincere thanks, the singer-songwriter cannot help but pay homage to the great Lucio Dalla, the singer and artist who was able to represent and understand Bologna better than anyone else.
“It is also difficult for me to find the words to thank you for everything that happened yesterday. I have seen and hugged thousands of people from all over Italy to pay homage not to me and my song, mind you, but the best idea we all have of Bologna, to which I belong like all its citizens. The city where not even a child is lost, which the people of the world smile at just saying it, because the sound of his name reminds you of only beautiful things, or beautiful people. Lucio dressed in white under the arcades with a stick and behind him all the others, to see where he is going. As in one of his beautiful old songs: “Lucio where are you going
“ . Go to the hills to watch the sunset tonight
Or go to church and talk to the paintings
You go out at night to take a tour of the avenues chasing thoughts, you stop to say hello to Agnese delle cocomere and drink a cappuccino at 5 in the morning, then suddenly you disappear behind an alley and only the pigeons know where you are going . Bologna is beautiful at night because it belongs to its arcades, and to them alone. How to enter a maze of thoughts that are repeated relentlessly and never the same. I’ve walked them every day since I was a child and I can’t get tired of them. That must be why the Bolognese speak for themselves. There under those arches, watching the hail without running away, as if enchanted by one’s own luck. Today I can say without fear, that I am lucky, and I hope that Robin’s words, illuminating Via D’Azeglio, are a sign of continuity with the glorious musical tradition of Bologna. With the aim of keeping together and remembering not only the words of a song, but all the very important musical institutions of this city . Starting with the municipal theater of Bologna, where it would be nice to bring back a generation of young people, the music and entertainment department of the University, the Martini conservatory, all the festivals and events of classical, jazz and popular music that enrich it enormously. This is what these beautiful days mean to me. I hug everyone. ”
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It is also difficult for me to find the words to thank you for everything that happened yesterday. I have seen and hugged thousands of people from all over Italy to pay homage not to me and my song, mind you, but the best idea we all have of Bologna, to which I belong like all its citizens. The city where not even a child is lost, which the people of the world smile at just saying it, because the sound of his name reminds you of only beautiful things, or beautiful people. Lucio dressed in white under the arcades with a stick and behind him all the others, to see where he is going. As in one of his beautiful old songs: “Lucio where are you going
“. Go to the hills to watch the sunset tonight
Or go to church and talk to the paintings
You go out at night to take a tour of the avenues chasing thoughts, you stop to say hello to Agnese delle cocomere and drink a cappuccino at 5 in the morning, then suddenly you disappear behind an alley and only the pigeons know where you are going. Bologna is beautiful at night because it belongs to its arcades, and to them alone. How to enter a maze of thoughts that are repeated relentlessly and never the same. I’ve walked them every day since I was a child and I can’t get tired of them. That must be why the Bolognese speak for themselves. There under those arches, watching the hail without running away, as if enchanted by one’s own luck. Today I can say it without fear, that I am lucky, and I hope that Robin’s words, illuminating Via D’Azeglio, are a sign of continuity with the glorious musical tradition of Bologna. With the aim of keeping together and remembering not only the words of a song, but all the very important musical institutions of this city. Starting with the municipal theater of Bologna, where it would be nice to bring back a generation of young people, the music and entertainment department of the University, the Martini conservatory, all the festivals and events of classical, jazz and popular music that enrich it enormously. This is what these beautiful days mean to me. I hug everyone. popular that enrich it enormously. This is what these beautiful days mean to me. I hug everyone. popular that enrich it enormously. This is what these beautiful days mean to me. I hug everyone.
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