For Lucio Battisti fans, September 29th is a special date. Because
“29 settembre” is the title of one of the songwriter’s most loved songs. Brought to success by the Equipe 84 group with the voice of Maurizio Vandelli. The story of the song
Despite the title, this song came out in March 1967. It was the third song written together with Mogol, a real experimentation. Mogol himself, in an interview, said that the song was born in the office, after a very normal lunch. The starting idea was to make a song close to the world of psychedelics, in vogue in the USA in those years. The initial version of the Equipe 84 Group, in fact, maintains this particular trend. When, two years later, Battisti appropriated it again, the psychedelic dimension was replaced with the Oniric one. Mogol took a long time to convince Lucio, who did not want to sing this song ” out of his strings ”. The meaning of “September 29”
The title of the song does not allow us to immediately understand the content. Mogol chose this date thinking of his first wife, Serenella, born on 29 September.
In a very explicit way, the passage speaks of a betrayal: ” Then suddenly she smiled and even before I understood I found myself under her arm, tight as if there was nothing but her. I only saw her and I didn’t think about you “. A real love at first sight, a blinding light, a sudden passion. A passion that, however, when you wake up, is extinguished. In fact ” ”I woke up and… and I’m thinking about you. I just remember that yesterday you weren’t with me… The sun erased everything, suddenly I fly out of bed and run there to the phone, talk, laugh and you .. you don’t know why “.
A great love is not comparable to a fleeting slip. And if the night makes you skid, the morning leads you to understand. The protagonist of the story told in the song, understood it and as the mogul himself explains about it: “ The intention was to give an example of what you take for a person one evening and then realize the comparison for the good years deep and these things cannot be compared, because one is a flash and the other is the light ” the lyrics of the song “September 29”
Sitting in that cafe
I didn’t think of you
I looked at the world that
went around to me
Then suddenly she smiled
And even before I understood
I found myself under her arm
Tight as if there was nothing but her
I saw only her
And I did not think of you
And the whole city was running
towards us
The dark I find us close
A restaurant and then
Running to dance under her arm Tightened
towards home, hugging her
Almost as if there was nothing
Almost as if not there was that she
Almost as if there was nothing but her
As if there was nothing but her
I woke up and
And I’m thinking of you
I only remember that
Yesterday you weren’t with me
The sun erased everything
Suddenly I fly out of bed
And I run there on the phone
I talk, laugh and you, you don’t know why.
Stella Grillo
