There is also Paul Gascoigne at the Sanremo Festival . In an indirect way, a quote more for his extra-football life than for his career also spent in Italy, in Lazio from 1992 to 1995. Among the 24 songs competing at the Festival, which began on Tuesday 5 February and reached its 69th edition, c ‘and also the song “Rolls Royce” by rapper / trapper Achille Lauro , which pays homage to great rock icons such as Doors and Rolling Stones and music in general such as Amy Winehouse, but also Axl Rose, Billie Joe, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe .
Actually Achille Lauro allows himself a couple of quotes outside the musical field: two are aimed at art with Miro and Van Gogh; the other, precisely to football,with the former English footballer Paul “Gazza” Gascoigne, known for his talent, but also for his exuberant, spirited and lashing character and for his difficult and complicated addiction to alcohol accompanied by increasingly serious mental disorders. In the song, in fact, the reference is to this last aspect:
No, it’s not a drink, and Paul Gascoigne
Achille Lauro is from Rome , is 28 years old and has chosen his stage name based on his real name, that is Lauro De Marinis. In an interview he said that his choice was almost natural, since, when he was younger, his first name was often associated with that of the owner Achille Lauro, who was also mayor of Naples in the 1950s and to whom a ship became famous for its hijacking and for the crisis that followed in 1985, the so-called “Sigonella crisis” .
Achille Lauro has been in business since 2012, but has also achieved a certain fame outside the underground scene for just over a year. In 2017 he participated in the Beijing Express reality show, the one in which couples of more or less famous characters have to pass various tests, and came in third place in the final ranking. In 2018 his latest album, Pour ama, was released, produced together with Boss Doms with which Achille Lauro said he had created a new genre, the “samba trap”, similar to trap but with South American and more glamorous elements .
The full text of “Rolls Royce”, the song that Achille Lauro at the Sanremo Festival:
Lying on the ground like the Doors
Well dressed, via del Corso
I lose my head like Kevin
A twenty-seven like Amy
Rolls Royce
Yes like Marilyn Monroe
Guitar in pearl, Billie Joe
I play on the ground as Hendrix
Viva Las Vegas as Elvis
Oh Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
No, it’s not life, and Rock’n Roll
No, it’s not music, and a Miro
E Axl Rose
Rolling Stones
No, it’s not a drink, and Paul Gascoigne
No, it’s not love, it’s a sex shop
A sex shop, yes, yes, and a Van Gogh
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
I want a life like this
I want an end like this
C’est la vie
It’s not madness but it’s just living
I’ve never been myself
No, there’s nothing to understand
white Ferrari, yes, Miami Vice
Of us who will be
Rolls Royce Rolls Royce
Of us who will be
Rolls Royce Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
I want a life like this
I want an end like this
C’est la vie
My love you are the devil
That you come back but
Alone to set fire to my paper heart
God please save us from these days
Keep a seat aside and write these names
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
