Without Lucio Dalla, who sings more than sports?

Cry for him just as we were about to bake him a nice birthday cake. Even when it comes to death, Lucio Dalla made fun of us all: he left on March 1, 2012, one step away from turning 69. And his funeral was held on March 4, precisely his birthday, as an autobiographical song of him reminds us. Bearer of the traditional values ​​and themes of the Italian song, Dalla welcomed them and made them his own in his own way, singing love without time and space in “Caruso” , or the melancholy story of a homeless man who lives in the “Piazza grande”of his Bologna. He sang and told, however, all aspects of everyday life giving the same prominence, the same importance.

And among these, in his lyrics there is all the passion for sport , unlike the noble and aristocratic thought of many songwriters (De Gregori himself, a great friend of him, had difficulty in accepting the hymn of Rome written by his friend Venditti). He was known by all as a regular visitor to the Dall’Ara , the stadium of Bologna football, where he used to sit next to Morandi. For the same team he wrote, together with Luca Carboni, Gianni Morandi and Andrea Mingardi , the hymn entitled “Your wings Bologna” . In 2001, he also composed a song“Baggio … Baggio” dedicated to the Divine Codino , reborn in his brief Bolognese parenthesis:
Have you ever been the foot of the player who is about to take a penalty and the right little finger of that goalkeeper who is there, and there to save …
But more than everyone had basketball in their hearts . Always a fan of Virtus Bologna , with his acting as a “fool”, he joked about his height:
I’m a great playmaker. Perhaps the greatest. I was only fooled by the height
The photo with Augusto Binelli , a basketball player of over 2 meters , was still famous, both with the white shirt with the black V of the Virtus. Yet in his joking, he understood basketball: every now and then he went down to the locker room, talked to the players, with the club and everyone accepted the advice (and sometimes the criticisms) that he used to give, always with great calmness. Fan yes, but always composed.

His other great passion was motors and car racing. In “Nuvolari”(prominent track of the album “Automobili”, all focused on racing), narrates, with accelerated and frenetic rhythms, the exaltation mixed with mystification of the crowd, willing to wait an infinite time and then see speeding by in a matter of seconds, when comes from the horizon, that little guy “short in stature, below normal”. And in fact “people arrive in heaps and stretch out on the lawns, when Nuvolari runs, when Nuvolari passes by, people wait for his arrival for hours and hours and finally when they hear the noise they jump up and greet him with his hand, shout at him words of love, and watches him disappear as he watches a soldier on horseback. “[/ vc_column_text] [/ vc_column] [/ vc_row]

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An emotional transport that finds its apotheosis in a song, written in 1996, which recalls Ayrton Senna , a Formula 1 driver, who tragically died two years earlier in a accident on the track in Imola. A text, interpreted in the first person, to be read in one go: “My name is Ayrton and I am a pilot and I run fast on my way even if it is no longer the same road even if it is no longer the same thing. if there are no pilots here even if there are no flags here … And I decided one night in May in a land of dreamers I decided that maybe it was my turn and I realized that God had given me the power to make the world go back by bouncing in the curve with me he said “close your eyes and rest” and I closed my eyes “.

He has given so much to the Italian song and in his small way, even to the world of sport that has not forgotten it. The Gazzetta dello Sport, the day after his death, paid tribute to the singer-songwriter by titling each article on the front page with one of his songs Di lui. The football match Bologna – Novara, scheduled for the following Sunday at 15.00, was postponed to 18.30, giving the possibility to be present at his funeral. Virtus Bologna , who named the Curva Ovest where he used to watch matches, and took the field to the tune of “Caruso”.
Among the many messages, there is also that of the coach Emiliamo Mondonico. That day he said:
I regret not being able to go when Lucio Battisti and John Lennon died, Lucio Dalla could not fail to come to greet him. For me Lucio Dalla was very important, he is about my age and therefore he reminds me of my life. A piece of us is missing
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