1 00:00:04,097 --> 00:00:06,097 Italo disco is first and foremost 2 00:00:06,097 --> 00:00:08,097 a curious phenomenon 3 00:00:08,097 --> 00:00:09,742 Some find it horrible, 4 00:00:09,742 --> 00:00:12,799 others are passionate fans. 5 00:00:14,534 --> 00:00:16,750 Many of the artists were alone 6 00:00:16,750 --> 00:00:17,874 a project, 7 00:00:17,874 --> 00:00:21,542 some couldn't sing. They were a voice on the record 8 00:00:21,542 --> 00:00:23,451 and a face on the cover. 9 00:00:24,266 --> 00:00:27,049 If it had never been there that music, 10 00:00:27,049 --> 00:00:30,544 the European sound of the 80s there would never have been. 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,508 The eighties were told very, very badly. 12 00:00:34,508 --> 00:00:37,563 They were told in a way very superficial. 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,461 Italo disco is a virus, yes, a magical virus. 14 00:00:43,461 --> 00:00:47,441 Italo disco was the only one new musical form ever 15 00:00:47,441 --> 00:00:49,350 produced in Italy. 16 00:00:51,055 --> 00:00:54,566 It was an attitude towards life, a joke, 17 00:00:54,566 --> 00:00:57,489 a sound effect, the desire of a different world 18 00:00:57,489 --> 00:01:01,427 where life is appreciated, the sun is shining, we're having fun. 19 00:01:03,404 --> 00:01:05,865 The Italo disco songs listened to at the disco 20 00:01:05,865 --> 00:01:10,902 they were equivalent to postcards, gadgets, t-shirts. 21 00:01:10,902 --> 00:01:12,503 They were a souvenir of Italy, 22 00:01:12,503 --> 00:01:17,584 of that hot Italy, Italy of the summer that never ended. 23 00:01:19,773 --> 00:01:22,851 So many impressions and so many feelings... 24 00:01:22,908 --> 00:01:27,857 Italo disco remained with me for many years. 25 00:01:27,857 --> 00:01:30,606 Sensational, truly. 26 00:01:43,115 --> 00:01:47,207 In the late 70s of the last century 27 00:01:47,207 --> 00:01:49,754 a bizarre genre is born in the music scene. 28 00:01:49,754 --> 00:01:53,337 It almost seems to come from another universe. 29 00:01:55,258 --> 00:01:59,646 Intense electronic rhythms, simple synthetic sounds 30 00:01:59,646 --> 00:02:03,581 and lyrics mostly sung in shaky English. 31 00:02:03,581 --> 00:02:06,548 A unique musical mix 32 00:02:06,548 --> 00:02:08,457 which was born in the Bel Paese 33 00:02:08,457 --> 00:02:12,569 and then conquers the world within a short time. 34 00:02:15,476 --> 00:02:19,035 An art light years away by committed songwriters 35 00:02:19,035 --> 00:02:21,500 of the same decade. 36 00:02:25,993 --> 00:02:28,309 Alcuni lo dicono tuttora. 37 00:02:28,309 --> 00:02:30,571 Italo disco is the genre definitely less cool 38 00:02:30,571 --> 00:02:32,480 that has ever been created. 39 00:02:35,079 --> 00:02:40,263 I don't think so, no. The music press 40 00:02:40,263 --> 00:02:45,587 criticized Italo disco bluntly, but... 41 00:02:45,851 --> 00:02:49,287 I always thought that I should have explained 42 00:02:49,287 --> 00:02:53,223 to journalists how they were doing really things. 43 00:03:02,252 --> 00:03:04,806 Of course, it is clear that... 44 00:03:04,806 --> 00:03:06,703 some key elements 45 00:03:06,703 --> 00:03:09,034 they were fragile or rushed, 46 00:03:09,034 --> 00:03:13,146 often too melodic, too pop, too kitsch, 47 00:03:13,146 --> 00:03:16,961 almost trashy. There were, yes, but there was a lot of good. 48 00:03:16,961 --> 00:03:19,751 The beginnings of Italo disco 49 00:03:19,751 --> 00:03:23,016 for me they were innovative. 50 00:03:27,334 --> 00:03:31,961 And that's why it's difficult classify Italo disco with a single name. 51 00:03:31,961 --> 00:03:34,619 And that's why I have to say, for my part, 52 00:03:34,619 --> 00:03:38,863 which Italo disco is in part the most incredible trash 53 00:03:38,863 --> 00:03:42,182 and partly the most total genius. 54 00:03:42,752 --> 00:03:48,100 Creating a global success it's practically impossible... 55 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:52,036 Many people don't understand. "What do we need? Two bangs and go." 56 00:03:52,036 --> 00:03:53,197 Try doing it! 57 00:03:53,593 --> 00:03:56,444 I remember who we were in your kitchen 58 00:03:56,444 --> 00:03:58,221 and there was, as usual, a synth. 59 00:03:58,221 --> 00:04:00,969 There was always a synth somewhere in the house, 60 00:04:00,969 --> 00:04:02,174 even in the kitchen. 61 00:04:02,174 --> 00:04:05,625 We were with two characters, the Righeiras. 62 00:04:05,625 --> 00:04:07,446 We set out to... 63 00:04:07,446 --> 00:04:09,267 and a song came. 64 00:04:09,267 --> 00:04:10,956 "Let's go to the beach!" 65 00:04:17,430 --> 00:04:20,270 Afterwards it's always easy say "You're done 66 00:04:20,270 --> 00:04:21,900 a commercial piece." 67 00:04:21,900 --> 00:04:23,700 Damn commercial! 68 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:26,490 because it was something totally different 69 00:04:26,490 --> 00:04:28,752 from what was there at the time, 70 00:04:29,016 --> 00:04:33,921 and the impact on the public and with the market it was devastating. 71 00:04:34,229 --> 00:04:35,610 Devastating! 72 00:04:36,110 --> 00:04:38,812 And it devastated in some ways us too. 73 00:04:43,084 --> 00:04:47,247 Born from collaboration among the creativity of the Righeiras 74 00:04:47,247 --> 00:04:51,227 and the creativity of the two La Bionda, in 1983 "Let's go to the playa" 75 00:04:51,227 --> 00:04:54,105 has become a global hit. 76 00:04:54,765 --> 00:04:56,658 Few pay attention 77 00:04:56,658 --> 00:04:59,184 to underground vibes of the song, in those years, 78 00:04:59,184 --> 00:05:02,811 to the almost dystopian text about nuclear explosions, 79 00:05:02,811 --> 00:05:04,588 to harmful radioactive winds. 80 00:05:05,334 --> 00:05:08,433 It was electronic new wave with Kraftwerk influences, 81 00:05:08,433 --> 00:05:10,915 which eventually came out something that at the beginning 82 00:05:10,915 --> 00:05:13,793 venne rifiutato spesso from record companies 83 00:05:13,793 --> 00:05:16,363 because the piece was strange. 84 00:05:18,916 --> 00:05:21,469 Let's go to La Playa! 85 00:05:23,495 --> 00:05:26,830 The "Playa" is not only a central element 86 00:05:26,830 --> 00:05:30,986 for the Spanish chorus of the band Righeira. 87 00:05:30,986 --> 00:05:34,701 It is also one of the places di punta per lo sviluppo 88 00:05:34,701 --> 00:05:37,359 of Italo disco music. 89 00:05:37,623 --> 00:05:40,722 It's about the beach of the Adriatic coast. 90 00:05:40,722 --> 00:05:43,777 Always a member of parliament to dancing, to music 91 00:05:43,777 --> 00:05:45,293 and great fun. 92 00:05:45,293 --> 00:05:47,034 In 1975, not surprisingly, 93 00:05:47,034 --> 00:05:50,000 in Gabicce, on the coast, opens a nightclub 94 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,262 which comes two years earlier the famous place 95 00:05:52,262 --> 00:05:55,184 Studio 54 in New York. 96 00:05:55,184 --> 00:05:58,943 A unique place in Europe. 97 00:06:00,267 --> 00:06:04,202 It is the Bay of Angels. 98 00:06:07,345 --> 00:06:10,334 If you try to condense the overall story 99 00:06:10,334 --> 00:06:12,992 of the Italo disco genre, 100 00:06:12,992 --> 00:06:16,179 maybe you can bring it back 101 00:06:16,179 --> 00:06:18,044 at the Bay of Angels, 102 00:06:18,044 --> 00:06:21,187 where a rich Italian 103 00:06:21,187 --> 00:06:24,418 he made the dream come true of a parallel universe 104 00:06:24,418 --> 00:06:28,089 where you can dance for several days, have fun 105 00:06:28,089 --> 00:06:30,089 and isolate yourself from all over the world. 106 00:06:30,373 --> 00:06:32,351 The venue has become so influential 107 00:06:32,351 --> 00:06:33,511 that almost all over Italy 108 00:06:33,511 --> 00:06:35,064 after the Bay of Angels 109 00:06:35,064 --> 00:06:37,134 Sinile venues were born. 110 00:06:43,917 --> 00:06:46,123 We are not talking about "discos". 111 00:06:46,123 --> 00:06:48,869 In the Italian context there were "megadiscos", 112 00:06:48,869 --> 00:06:52,100 places that match to a vision, 113 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:55,531 to a new interpretation of time. 114 00:06:55,713 --> 00:06:59,286 Dei locali grandi, aperti, that contain people. 115 00:06:59,286 --> 00:07:01,151 Able to integrate. 116 00:07:01,151 --> 00:07:02,928 very democratic, 117 00:07:02,928 --> 00:07:05,542 where they didn't ask you who were you at the entrance. 118 00:07:05,542 --> 00:07:08,934 They were designated places to a new form 119 00:07:08,934 --> 00:07:11,416 of free time. 120 00:07:11,416 --> 00:07:13,516 And if we don't decline 121 00:07:13,516 --> 00:07:16,855 Italo dance, Italo music, 122 00:07:16,855 --> 00:07:19,645 let's define it as we like, with the discovery 123 00:07:19,645 --> 00:07:22,567 and then with colonization of free time, 124 00:07:22,567 --> 00:07:25,534 we will never understand why of these places, 125 00:07:25,534 --> 00:07:27,928 where it was possible to dream, 126 00:07:27,928 --> 00:07:30,275 also through music, 127 00:07:30,275 --> 00:07:33,065 naturally not excellent, the critics would say, 128 00:07:33,065 --> 00:07:34,842 but who cares. 129 00:07:34,842 --> 00:07:41,254 But with music that allowed to fill the floors of mega discos. 130 00:07:50,220 --> 00:07:53,021 The Bay also had a strategic position. 131 00:07:53,021 --> 00:07:56,208 On the Gabicce hill, this construction 132 00:07:56,208 --> 00:07:59,703 fronte mare poteva contare on a beautiful panorama 133 00:07:59,703 --> 00:08:02,846 and technological innovations. 134 00:08:02,846 --> 00:08:05,989 For example, the DJ booth it was located in an elevator. 135 00:08:05,989 --> 00:08:08,634 And since the Bay had two or three floors, 136 00:08:08,634 --> 00:08:12,041 that elevator was used by the DJ to look at the track below, 137 00:08:12,041 --> 00:08:14,611 then to move on to the first floors and watch the slopes above. 138 00:08:14,611 --> 00:08:17,622 And the DJ himself, while he saw the whole place, 139 00:08:17,622 --> 00:08:19,708 It also had a sea view, 140 00:08:19,708 --> 00:08:22,851 where laser beams were projected. 141 00:08:28,489 --> 00:08:32,933 It was an innovation that didn't exist before. Previously, in the 1960s, 142 00:08:32,933 --> 00:08:34,950 the DJ was someone che semplicemente prendeva 143 00:08:34,950 --> 00:08:37,124 the discs who were from the club and played them one after the other. 144 00:08:37,124 --> 00:08:39,286 That wasn't art at all. 145 00:08:39,286 --> 00:08:42,913 The Italians were among the first to turn things upside down. 146 00:08:42,913 --> 00:08:51,200 The disc jockey was a creator, he created sound worlds completely new. 147 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,003 The disc jockey as an artist it is an invention of the Italians 148 00:08:55,003 --> 00:08:58,190 occurred during the 1970s. 149 00:09:01,626 --> 00:09:04,850 Italy was leader in Europe 150 00:09:04,850 --> 00:09:09,446 regarding DJ culture. For years and years 151 00:09:09,634 --> 00:09:12,909 I couldn't play over there. 152 00:09:12,909 --> 00:09:14,774 Not before the 90s. 153 00:09:14,774 --> 00:09:18,445 Why be a DJ in the 80s it was a big business in Italy. 154 00:09:18,445 --> 00:09:20,927 Between nightlife, club culture, 155 00:09:20,927 --> 00:09:23,057 production of musical works, 156 00:09:23,057 --> 00:09:25,627 labels and large distributors... 157 00:09:25,627 --> 00:09:29,067 it was a huge industry in Italy. 158 00:09:29,067 --> 00:09:33,575 An international group! More international than that you die. 159 00:09:33,575 --> 00:09:36,224 Let's make them say it, come on. Where are you from? 160 00:09:36,224 --> 00:09:37,297 - Trinidad. - Trinidad. And you? 161 00:09:37,297 --> 00:09:39,162 -Martinique -Martinique. And you? 162 00:09:39,162 --> 00:09:41,556 -Germany. -Germany. And you? 163 00:09:41,556 --> 00:09:43,862 -England. -England. 164 00:09:43,862 --> 00:09:46,168 Where do you come from? But I'm Italian! 165 00:09:47,005 --> 00:09:48,826 Bravo! A round of applause for the Italians! 166 00:09:49,335 --> 00:09:50,328 From Catania! 167 00:09:50,328 --> 00:09:51,534 This excellent mix! 168 00:09:51,534 --> 00:09:53,620 of Italian background, 169 00:09:53,620 --> 00:09:57,423 dell'arte di arrangiarsi and the desire to imitate 170 00:09:57,423 --> 00:10:00,390 every American sound 171 00:10:00,390 --> 00:10:02,696 it gave birth to new types 172 00:10:02,696 --> 00:10:04,603 of great pop music. 173 00:10:04,603 --> 00:10:08,383 The La Bionda brothers are were brilliant in understanding 174 00:10:08,383 --> 00:10:11,041 than this new mix 175 00:10:11,041 --> 00:10:12,862 of various artistic genres 176 00:10:12,862 --> 00:10:15,080 it was often much more pop 177 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,474 of the original disc. 178 00:10:28,934 --> 00:10:32,291 The precursors, the nominatives, 179 00:10:32,291 --> 00:10:34,773 those who define the perimeter, 180 00:10:34,773 --> 00:10:36,529 the Argonauts. 181 00:10:38,247 --> 00:10:41,229 We came from pop, from the Beatles, from these things, 182 00:10:41,229 --> 00:10:45,473 and we wanted to introduce these elements on the disc. 183 00:10:45,473 --> 00:10:50,534 The Italian art of making do... but we liked everything. 184 00:10:50,534 --> 00:10:52,734 La Bionda makes you understand 185 00:10:52,734 --> 00:10:55,348 that there is something that unites 186 00:10:55,348 --> 00:10:58,447 craftsmanship, craftsmanship, 187 00:10:58,447 --> 00:11:02,735 to an international style 188 00:11:02,735 --> 00:11:10,000 Mediterraneans ranging from south to north. On a contrary path 189 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,909 and opposed to Abba. 190 00:11:12,409 --> 00:11:13,922 In fact, there are Abba 191 00:11:13,922 --> 00:11:18,782 that from Sweden, new Normans, they arrive everywhere, 192 00:11:18,782 --> 00:11:22,585 and there are the La Bionda brothers, 193 00:11:22,585 --> 00:11:27,134 with very simple melodic riffs, 194 00:11:27,134 --> 00:11:30,000 that invade the world. 195 00:11:33,671 --> 00:11:36,108 In their artistic journey and cultural, 196 00:11:36,108 --> 00:11:39,647 which will lead them to land to Italo disco electronics, 197 00:11:39,647 --> 00:11:43,891 Germany is a stopover key for the La Bionda brothers. 198 00:11:44,391 --> 00:11:47,886 Negli anni '70, qui si trovava the pulsating capital 199 00:11:47,886 --> 00:11:51,425 of the discos in Europe. Munich. 200 00:11:52,874 --> 00:11:54,600 Disco and the city of Munich 201 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,699 they become one upon leaving since the mid-1970s. 202 00:11:57,699 --> 00:12:00,533 Munich is one of the first centers 203 00:12:00,533 --> 00:12:04,116 in which discomania breaks out. 204 00:12:06,803 --> 00:12:08,630 Since they were there in Munich 205 00:12:08,630 --> 00:12:13,006 many high level musical studies, 206 00:12:13,506 --> 00:12:16,605 and many American musicians 207 00:12:16,605 --> 00:12:18,779 level, and since in Monaco, 208 00:12:18,779 --> 00:12:22,450 as in all of Germany, there were American soldiers 209 00:12:22,450 --> 00:12:26,370 with their radio stations, numerous German cities 210 00:12:26,370 --> 00:12:31,671 they were centers of culture American. Including Monaco. 211 00:12:34,798 --> 00:12:38,183 This combination of items led 212 00:12:38,183 --> 00:12:40,183 producers and musicians, but also singers, 213 00:12:40,183 --> 00:12:43,898 to move to Munich to join 214 00:12:43,898 --> 00:12:46,116 of this musical bubble so innovative. 215 00:12:46,116 --> 00:12:50,000 The workplace, for us Italy opened up, 216 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,187 and the opening radius of this place 217 00:12:53,187 --> 00:12:56,946 of work and proposal Europe was musical. 218 00:12:56,946 --> 00:12:59,736 In this location, 219 00:12:59,736 --> 00:13:02,262 Monaco it really was 220 00:13:02,262 --> 00:13:04,900 the central point of reference 221 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:08,880 where the desire came from of new music. 222 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:13,013 For us it was fascinating precisely because of the sense of novelty 223 00:13:13,013 --> 00:13:15,803 compared to that what we were used to doing. 224 00:13:15,803 --> 00:13:18,282 It was the change that we were looking for. 225 00:13:20,601 --> 00:13:23,140 Munich had a history of sound behind it 226 00:13:23,140 --> 00:13:26,503 thanks to some characters like Karajan. 227 00:13:26,503 --> 00:13:29,073 Karajan was obsessed 228 00:13:29,073 --> 00:13:32,568 from your records. Obsessed. 229 00:13:32,568 --> 00:13:36,019 He was a perfectionist, and always wanted to 230 00:13:36,019 --> 00:13:39,517 than the orchestral parts 231 00:13:39,517 --> 00:13:42,660 they had their own voice, so to speak. 232 00:13:42,660 --> 00:13:44,985 And this was achievable 233 00:13:44,985 --> 00:13:47,555 only with certain techniques of miking 234 00:13:47,555 --> 00:13:50,522 and certain ways of recording cutting edge. 235 00:13:50,522 --> 00:13:53,444 In short, in Munich there was great awareness 236 00:13:53,444 --> 00:13:55,334 what the sound was. 237 00:13:55,334 --> 00:14:00,024 And there were tools too available. 238 00:14:00,024 --> 00:14:06,081 In fact, after the guitar, the piano and the sax, 239 00:14:06,081 --> 00:14:08,646 the study had become the new tool. 240 00:14:09,527 --> 00:14:11,643 Ladies and gentlemen, 241 00:14:11,643 --> 00:14:15,101 what you hear it's not my voice. 242 00:14:15,674 --> 00:14:19,813 It's a vocoder. 243 00:14:29,383 --> 00:14:32,214 In Monaco, La Bionda they also meet 244 00:14:32,214 --> 00:14:34,605 the revolutionary sound of another Italian 245 00:14:34,605 --> 00:14:37,011 which he had already crossed the Alps before them. 246 00:14:37,011 --> 00:14:39,434 It was Giorgio Moroder, from South Tyrol, 247 00:14:39,434 --> 00:14:42,239 creator of Munich Sound. 248 00:14:42,239 --> 00:14:45,983 His muse? Donna Summer. 249 00:15:08,134 --> 00:15:11,673 Munich Sound at the time it was a revolution 250 00:15:11,673 --> 00:15:17,296 and the idea of a distant future, maybe even fifteen years. 251 00:15:17,296 --> 00:15:20,705 With the song "I Feel Love" it was already indicated, 252 00:15:20,705 --> 00:15:25,283 with extreme precision, come poteva essere il futuro. 253 00:15:25,283 --> 00:15:28,014 Long before house, just before Italo disco. 254 00:15:28,014 --> 00:15:29,564 In 1977, at least it seems to me, 255 00:15:29,564 --> 00:15:33,716 Giorgio Moroder in Munich gave the go-ahead 256 00:15:33,716 --> 00:15:37,699 to a musical revolution unprecedented. 257 00:16:01,410 --> 00:16:04,998 Disco music of the 70s leaves with La Bionda. 258 00:16:04,998 --> 00:16:07,346 They are fundamental 259 00:16:07,346 --> 00:16:10,693 for Italian disco music of the highest level. 260 00:16:10,693 --> 00:16:12,580 Then there is also Celso Valli, 261 00:16:12,580 --> 00:16:15,665 there's Pino Presti, there's Mauro Malavasi, very important, 262 00:16:15,665 --> 00:16:19,229 there is Claudio Simonetti, and then together with him I am there 263 00:16:19,229 --> 00:16:22,176 Vivien Vee and Easy Going. 264 00:16:22,176 --> 00:16:25,227 And Easy Going takes it the name from a nightclub 265 00:16:25,227 --> 00:16:28,970 for gays that I had opened precisely in '77. 266 00:16:35,621 --> 00:16:36,899 "Baby I Love you" 267 00:16:36,899 --> 00:16:40,646 It really gives you the push to be able to pass 268 00:16:40,646 --> 00:16:44,684 since that decade to the following decade. 269 00:16:51,654 --> 00:16:53,711 The Easy Going group 270 00:16:53,711 --> 00:16:57,382 announces that the Italo disco it's around the corner, 271 00:16:57,382 --> 00:16:59,988 that is coming. From what do we understand it? 272 00:16:59,988 --> 00:17:02,646 From two elements First element, the colors 273 00:17:02,646 --> 00:17:07,254 and the choreographies are reminiscent gay culture from Studio 54. 274 00:17:09,834 --> 00:17:13,208 Second element, the fact that the disco, 275 00:17:13,208 --> 00:17:18,565 in short, it becomes a place of encounters and possible flirtations. 276 00:17:27,814 --> 00:17:32,540 Many people think whether I'm the blonde or the redhead, 277 00:17:32,540 --> 00:17:36,159 but I don't even know anymore what video I was in for The Flirts. 278 00:17:37,134 --> 00:17:41,622 We did many things... And I was just the voice, at first. 279 00:17:41,622 --> 00:17:44,777 For The Flirts and other works by Bobby Orlando. 280 00:17:44,777 --> 00:17:46,750 It was typical for 80's music. 281 00:17:46,750 --> 00:17:50,217 First you made a song, then, if he was successful, 282 00:17:50,217 --> 00:17:53,314 The producer thought about who put on the cover. 283 00:17:53,314 --> 00:17:56,448 Suddenly, the girls 284 00:17:56,448 --> 00:17:59,015 on the cover of The Flirts hanno lasciato il gruppo 285 00:17:59,015 --> 00:18:02,428 and it had been organised a tour of America, Canada 286 00:18:02,428 --> 00:18:04,779 and, of course, Europe. 287 00:18:11,474 --> 00:18:15,754 So I had to leave from studying and performing. 288 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,506 I became the redhead. 289 00:18:19,506 --> 00:18:22,084 I had to cut myself your hair, dye it red... 290 00:18:22,084 --> 00:18:24,803 Oddio, è stato pazzesco! 291 00:18:29,031 --> 00:18:32,210 The Flirts, the sex appeal of Italo disco. 292 00:18:32,210 --> 00:18:35,473 It's an important thing, the gender variable. 293 00:18:35,473 --> 00:18:38,223 Their presence it was very important, 294 00:18:38,223 --> 00:18:40,585 because he was already doing a little to counteract 295 00:18:40,585 --> 00:18:44,397 of dominant machismo, let's say machismo... 296 00:18:44,397 --> 00:18:47,941 very exhibited and counterfeit in some cases, 297 00:18:47,941 --> 00:18:50,984 very present in Italo disco. 298 00:18:55,502 --> 00:19:01,958 🎵oh, I'm ready for your passion. Oh, I'm looking for your loving.🎵 299 00:19:01,958 --> 00:19:05,549 "Passion" by The Flirts, I love that song! 300 00:19:05,549 --> 00:19:08,424 The Italo disco song American number one. 301 00:19:08,424 --> 00:19:12,720 Linda Jo Rizzo? Brilliant. He was in The Flirts then. 302 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:18,842 Yes, Linda was very close to Italo disco in Europe, 303 00:19:18,842 --> 00:19:21,721 But if I want to stick to it 304 00:19:21,721 --> 00:19:24,939 to my rigid definition of Italo disco 305 00:19:24,939 --> 00:19:29,296 come genere creato, fatto and published by Italiani... 306 00:19:29,296 --> 00:19:34,506 Sorry, Linda! You were on the fringes of Italo disco. 307 00:20:09,654 --> 00:20:11,445 Here it is, Italo disco. 308 00:20:11,445 --> 00:20:13,892 This synthesizer so aggressive 309 00:20:13,892 --> 00:20:17,062 it's only in Italo disco. 310 00:21:12,727 --> 00:21:17,177 In the records of the 80s and especially in Italo disco, 311 00:21:17,177 --> 00:21:21,411 the use of technology electronics is fundamental. 312 00:21:21,411 --> 00:21:25,396 And this he represented a novelty in Italy. 313 00:21:25,396 --> 00:21:29,002 The use of these tools forces the composer 314 00:21:29,002 --> 00:21:32,057 to create music specially designed 315 00:21:32,057 --> 00:21:35,904 for this type of sound. So change your mindset. 316 00:21:36,565 --> 00:21:38,628 He came out every two or three months a new keyboard 317 00:21:38,628 --> 00:21:42,494 or an electronic drum kit new, and this gave 318 00:21:42,494 --> 00:21:44,748 to producers and arrangers 319 00:21:44,748 --> 00:21:48,363 the possibility of drawing to ever-changing sounds. 320 00:21:48,363 --> 00:21:51,736 it was a moment of great novelty, 321 00:21:51,736 --> 00:21:54,425 with keyboards and instruments that arrived 322 00:21:54,425 --> 00:21:57,191 e noi che assorbivamo these new sounds 323 00:21:57,191 --> 00:22:01,323 and we tried to adopt them, to make them ours, 324 00:22:01,323 --> 00:22:03,748 to then learn how to use them. 325 00:22:03,748 --> 00:22:07,262 And it was hard to learn to use the equipment. 326 00:22:07,262 --> 00:22:10,458 The first moment when I listened to Italo disco 327 00:22:10,458 --> 00:22:15,512 I was shocked. It was full of synthesizers! 328 00:22:15,512 --> 00:22:20,437 And I was born in the 70s with traditional music, 329 00:22:20,437 --> 00:22:25,090 the synthesizer was new of mint, in 1980, 330 00:22:25,090 --> 00:22:28,205 in a lot of British music that I listened to. 331 00:22:28,205 --> 00:22:31,328 But then they arrived, the Italians, 332 00:22:31,328 --> 00:22:33,626 with all those synthesizers, 333 00:22:33,626 --> 00:22:37,002 and they knew how to give to the songs a bolder spirit 334 00:22:37,002 --> 00:22:39,521 which left me speechless! 335 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:25,598 Definitely, Italo disco there are two souls. 336 00:23:25,598 --> 00:23:29,247 One is the more technical one, of arrangements and sounds, 337 00:23:29,247 --> 00:23:32,744 that comes from the tools electronic, above all. 338 00:23:32,744 --> 00:23:37,095 And the other... it's the romantic streak 339 00:23:37,095 --> 00:23:41,321 which had Italo disco music. And that's exactly why 340 00:23:41,321 --> 00:23:44,616 that many songs have had great success, 341 00:23:44,616 --> 00:23:47,692 because the electronic part, combined 342 00:23:47,692 --> 00:23:50,011 to this melodic magic, 343 00:23:50,011 --> 00:23:54,324 It made the audience it could be immense. 344 00:24:10,386 --> 00:24:12,873 "I like Chopin" doesn't make you sure to think 345 00:24:12,873 --> 00:24:15,315 to electronic music very driven, 346 00:24:15,315 --> 00:24:19,007 but it is one of many souls by Pierluigi Giombini. 347 00:24:19,007 --> 00:24:21,483 He's a romantic soul, 348 00:24:21,483 --> 00:24:24,012 it's almost the new romantics of Italo disco 349 00:24:24,012 --> 00:24:30,000 and the greatest exponent is Paul Mazzolini, or Gazebo. 350 00:24:34,493 --> 00:24:39,532 Just the thought of submitting to Chopin one of my songs 351 00:24:39,532 --> 00:24:43,489 it put me in a state of terror. 352 00:24:43,489 --> 00:24:47,777 So, I tell you the truth. I wish I didn't let him hear it, 353 00:24:47,777 --> 00:24:50,096 and not knowing what he thinks. 354 00:24:52,034 --> 00:24:56,541 What he might perceive such a genius, listening 355 00:24:56,541 --> 00:25:01,763 these incredible sounds... for him? What would you think or say? 356 00:25:01,763 --> 00:25:05,682 It would be interesting to know. Unfortunately we will never know. 357 00:25:15,901 --> 00:25:19,759 In Italy, those who came from abroad 358 00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:27,830 you danced to a song, you listened to it, maybe you would go home with the 45 rpm as I remember 359 00:25:27,830 --> 00:25:32,267 of a beautiful stay in the endless summer 360 00:25:32,267 --> 00:25:34,905 with the sun of Rimini, Riccione, 361 00:25:34,905 --> 00:25:38,382 Positano, whatever you want. 362 00:25:38,382 --> 00:25:40,701 Italo disco was almost the national anthem, 363 00:25:40,701 --> 00:25:42,801 it was the background, 364 00:25:42,801 --> 00:25:45,752 it was the soundtrack of that summer. 365 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:05,796 In Italy, the discos they were out of this world. 366 00:26:05,796 --> 00:26:09,733 L'Altromondo Studios in Rimini it was fantastic. 367 00:26:09,733 --> 00:26:13,613 There was a spaceship outside that took off from Earth 368 00:26:13,613 --> 00:26:16,391 and there were robots inside on the dance floor. 369 00:26:16,391 --> 00:26:18,966 As part of the show, every evening, moreover, 370 00:26:18,966 --> 00:26:22,134 a spaceship lifted off the floor. 371 00:26:22,134 --> 00:26:27,830 I had never seen it something like that! 372 00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:39,488 And then these flyers 373 00:26:39,488 --> 00:26:43,335 elaborate and very beautiful to take home... 374 00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:46,205 The whole setup it was really special, 375 00:26:46,205 --> 00:26:49,150 an event in itself. Even the lights were different than usual, that's it. 376 00:26:49,150 --> 00:26:52,520 It was all hypermodern, an unprecedented world. 377 00:26:54,134 --> 00:26:56,134 It was the Italian touch, the Italian touch, 378 00:26:56,134 --> 00:26:59,201 what now it's called Made in Italy. 379 00:26:59,201 --> 00:27:04,064 It was all there, the attention retail, the audience, 380 00:27:04,064 --> 00:27:06,235 il senso di condivisione, the details, 381 00:27:06,235 --> 00:27:11,835 the details, the decorated flyers, free tickets, 382 00:27:11,835 --> 00:27:16,554 attention, first of all, to aesthetics. 383 00:27:17,699 --> 00:27:20,000 Italy dances for aesthetics. 384 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,593 We don't dance to make a revolution, like in Mexico, 385 00:27:23,593 --> 00:27:27,865 you don't dance to change the world, as in London. 386 00:27:27,865 --> 00:27:30,735 We dance because we dress up to dance, 387 00:27:30,735 --> 00:27:35,000 we dance because maybe we're broken my back all week, 388 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,501 but with your beautiful one you want it go dancing. 389 00:27:38,501 --> 00:27:40,831 This is it here, the Italian touch. 390 00:27:40,831 --> 00:27:44,267 That scrupulous attention and almost maniacal 391 00:27:44,267 --> 00:27:46,205 to dancing as a social ritual. 392 00:27:46,205 --> 00:27:49,335 In Italian discos there were German tourists, 393 00:27:49,335 --> 00:27:52,301 Scandinavians and even Danes. 394 00:27:52,301 --> 00:27:56,118 Who lived that new type of disco, in summer, 395 00:27:56,118 --> 00:28:00,129 after the holidays he returned in your hometown 396 00:28:00,129 --> 00:28:01,801 and wanted to find him at home. 397 00:28:01,801 --> 00:28:04,401 Consequently, the songs of Italian discos 398 00:28:04,401 --> 00:28:06,446 were on the radio in Germany. 399 00:28:06,446 --> 00:28:10,938 And they became a hit also in Sweden and England. 400 00:28:18,294 --> 00:28:21,069 I went on holiday to London. 401 00:28:21,069 --> 00:28:25,274 I couldn't believe it! "Dolce Vita" was on the radio. 402 00:28:25,274 --> 00:28:27,961 In addition to Michael Jackson, 403 00:28:28,490 --> 00:28:34,524 Culture Beat and Elton John there was "Dolce Vita" on the radio! 404 00:28:35,801 --> 00:28:38,868 "Dolce Vita", a success with four million copies, 405 00:28:38,868 --> 00:28:42,695 is initially rejected from many record companies 406 00:28:42,695 --> 00:28:45,118 Pierluigi Giombini, overworked from debts, 407 00:28:45,118 --> 00:28:48,001 in 1982 he managed to propose the song 408 00:28:48,001 --> 00:28:50,564 to Severo Lombardoni, 409 00:28:50,564 --> 00:28:53,780 one of the most important record producers 410 00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:57,403 of Italo dance music electronics of the time. 411 00:28:57,403 --> 00:29:02,469 Severino was a great man and a great agent. 412 00:29:02,469 --> 00:29:04,913 His was a business family, almost. 413 00:29:04,913 --> 00:29:07,868 His sister managed licensing agreements. 414 00:29:07,868 --> 00:29:10,001 He, on the other hand, was gifted for music. 415 00:29:10,001 --> 00:29:14,935 Lots of disc jockeys and producers and more 416 00:29:14,935 --> 00:29:19,101 they went to Lombardoni and they offered him pieces. 417 00:29:20,001 --> 00:29:21,165 I went to Lombardoni. 418 00:29:21,165 --> 00:29:24,535 It was an incredible thing. He listened to her and said: 419 00:29:25,344 --> 00:29:27,800 "That's the sound, I recognize it, I like it, 420 00:29:28,223 --> 00:29:31,401 but I don't like the song that much." 421 00:29:32,017 --> 00:29:36,070 I felt bad. I still had some money, 422 00:29:36,070 --> 00:29:38,626 I would have gotten a gun. 423 00:29:39,197 --> 00:29:41,926 At that moment he enters a girl who was 424 00:29:41,926 --> 00:29:47,001 a secretary. He said: "What a beautiful song!" 425 00:29:48,322 --> 00:29:53,708 And he does, with his accent from Bergamo, "Do you like it?" 426 00:29:53,708 --> 00:29:59,015 And she said, "It's beautiful." 427 00:30:20,863 --> 00:30:25,637 We had attitudes very plastic, too. 428 00:30:25,637 --> 00:30:27,719 And then, making them in two were strengthened, 429 00:30:27,719 --> 00:30:31,000 a bit like routines of soul musicians, 430 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,135 who did ballets all together, right? 431 00:30:33,135 --> 00:30:35,449 Our poses were not not at all soulful, 432 00:30:35,449 --> 00:30:37,635 but they were futuristic poses, 433 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:39,766 because we were thinking about the future. 434 00:30:42,883 --> 00:30:48,067 The "punks" destroyed everything and they said, "No future." 435 00:30:48,067 --> 00:30:50,411 So the next step it was to hook futurism 436 00:30:50,411 --> 00:30:51,969 on this attitude of doing 437 00:30:51,969 --> 00:30:56,332 something new. Which is why we set out... 438 00:30:56,993 --> 00:30:59,209 we pointed to the future. 439 00:30:59,209 --> 00:31:02,745 Cioè... pose futuriste. See the photos of the futurists, 440 00:31:02,745 --> 00:31:05,923 and they are all like us. We were futurists... 441 00:31:05,923 --> 00:31:10,232 I'm still a futurist. 442 00:31:14,334 --> 00:31:16,854 It's a crazy video that of "No tengo dinero". 443 00:31:16,854 --> 00:31:19,365 Paradigmatic and decisive. 444 00:31:19,365 --> 00:31:21,998 It's a great introduction to the most extreme dynamism, 445 00:31:21,998 --> 00:31:25,788 to dynamism to vorticism of futurism. 446 00:31:25,788 --> 00:31:29,462 Marinetti's true popularizers in Italy it was the Righeira family. 447 00:31:29,462 --> 00:31:31,169 Not art critics. 448 00:31:54,033 --> 00:31:57,994 Italo disco, as it were was presented then, 449 00:31:57,994 --> 00:31:59,690 it disgusted me a little, I have to say, 450 00:31:59,690 --> 00:32:02,637 I considered it very commercial, very "cheesy", 451 00:32:02,637 --> 00:32:03,720 as they say. 452 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,162 It wasn't music which I liked. 453 00:32:06,834 --> 00:32:09,125 Then I realised which is a container 454 00:32:09,125 --> 00:32:14,554 very varied, it cannot be considered a genre but a set of subgenres. 455 00:32:15,505 --> 00:32:21,697 And so he discovered that in addition to commercial records like "I like Chopin" 456 00:32:21,697 --> 00:32:25,205 there are also records very particular, 457 00:32:25,205 --> 00:32:27,205 Molto underground, come Koto "Chinese Revenge", 458 00:32:27,205 --> 00:32:30,157 A fabulous piece for me which I still play. 459 00:32:30,157 --> 00:32:33,409 I've been playing Koto for 50 years now. 460 00:32:38,934 --> 00:32:44,488 Italo disco is complex. It's underground and commercial 461 00:32:44,488 --> 00:32:49,038 and that's exactly the beauty of it of Italo disco. 462 00:32:52,687 --> 00:32:55,240 You don't throw away music nothing away. 463 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,671 In fact, a song that maybe thirty years ago it disgusted me, 464 00:32:59,671 --> 00:33:03,827 today I can rediscover it and maybe I'll play it at 33 rpm 465 00:33:03,827 --> 00:33:06,893 and not at 45... and the miracle happens. 466 00:33:28,067 --> 00:33:30,067 They are there in Italo disco 467 00:33:30,067 --> 00:33:33,651 lots of songs which are not very well known, 468 00:33:33,651 --> 00:33:34,785 e questo dispiace. 469 00:33:34,785 --> 00:33:41,633 Because there are songs, instead in my opinion, absolutely, excellent. 470 00:33:44,473 --> 00:33:46,895 "Cybernetic love" helmet 471 00:33:46,895 --> 00:33:49,766 It's one of the ones to wear in the top 10, 472 00:33:49,766 --> 00:33:52,035 it is produced by Salvatore Cusato, 473 00:33:52,035 --> 00:33:53,436 Aka Casco, 474 00:33:53,436 --> 00:33:59,400 a DJ who comes from Calabria with a cardboard suitcase and goes to work in Switzerland. 475 00:34:00,445 --> 00:34:02,445 In that song, you have... 476 00:34:02,445 --> 00:34:05,206 the Chemical Brothers 477 00:34:05,206 --> 00:34:09,177 for, say, management of the piece, 478 00:34:09,177 --> 00:34:11,261 Daft Punk. 479 00:34:11,261 --> 00:34:16,574 I could say two or three different levels of House music. 480 00:34:16,574 --> 00:34:21,128 Cybernetic love. 481 00:34:21,128 --> 00:34:24,405 A love letter towards the future, 482 00:34:24,405 --> 00:34:29,354 on the road to Italo disco. Very important. 483 00:34:36,357 --> 00:34:40,267 When you listen to the songs older than Italo disco 484 00:34:40,267 --> 00:34:41,557 and then Daft Punk, 485 00:34:41,557 --> 00:34:44,600 you realize how much are similar and related 486 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:45,837 these two currents. 487 00:34:45,837 --> 00:34:48,111 Daft Punk almost tries 488 00:34:48,111 --> 00:34:52,135 to play Italo disco music of the 70s and 80s. 489 00:34:52,135 --> 00:34:56,247 In short, many Italians they made music 490 00:34:56,247 --> 00:34:57,719 in a far-sighted way, 491 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,630 in some cases rediscovering styles that are actually finished 492 00:35:01,630 --> 00:35:05,411 into the mainstream twenty years later. 493 00:35:28,182 --> 00:35:30,289 All'inizio degli anni '80, the German importer 494 00:35:30,289 --> 00:35:32,965 Bernhard Mikulski discovers the musical offering 495 00:35:32,965 --> 00:35:36,658 by Severo Lombardoni and his colleagues 496 00:35:36,658 --> 00:35:39,476 and start spreading Italian sounds 497 00:35:39,476 --> 00:35:42,126 beyond the borders of the country. 498 00:35:42,126 --> 00:35:46,382 My husband was in the world of music for a long time. 499 00:35:46,382 --> 00:35:50,203 He had already produced a lot, at the time, he was an expert. 500 00:35:50,203 --> 00:35:55,179 He knew how to judge immediately if a song was a hit. 501 00:35:55,179 --> 00:36:01,694 I understood it too and I advised him what to do 502 00:36:01,694 --> 00:36:04,228 when he had doubts. 503 00:36:04,228 --> 00:36:07,867 It was a person very important in my career, why 504 00:36:07,867 --> 00:36:10,579 he always believed in me. 505 00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,940 Bernhard understood that... 506 00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:17,097 Italo disco was one wave of freshness in music. 507 00:36:17,097 --> 00:36:21,795 He understood that it was there of the business and then took the plunge. 508 00:36:22,934 --> 00:36:29,343 One day, someone gave us a tip. There was a company 509 00:36:29,343 --> 00:36:33,190 in Milan that he had a little wizard 510 00:36:33,190 --> 00:36:38,737 on the back of the label. We went to Milan 511 00:36:38,737 --> 00:36:42,390 and we looked for it. It was really hard... 512 00:36:42,390 --> 00:36:45,109 It wasn't easy meet the right guys 513 00:36:45,109 --> 00:36:48,570 on the right path, not speaking Italian. 514 00:36:49,341 --> 00:36:53,943 The term "Italo Disco" was created by Bernhard Mikulski. 515 00:36:53,943 --> 00:36:57,924 In one of his song compilations 516 00:36:57,924 --> 00:36:59,594 mine style, 517 00:36:59,594 --> 00:37:01,731 he wanted to advertise 518 00:37:01,731 --> 00:37:03,632 that they were songs of that type... 519 00:37:03,632 --> 00:37:05,408 e si inventò lo slogan "Italo Disco" 520 00:37:05,408 --> 00:37:07,356 From there 'Italo disco was born. 521 00:37:08,634 --> 00:37:11,587 It was a widespread reference. This production 522 00:37:11,587 --> 00:37:18,163 does he come from Italy? Excellent, let's talk about "Italo disco". 523 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,569 -And here's Savage. -Savage. 524 00:37:36,569 --> 00:37:38,121 But this name where did you catch it? 525 00:37:38,121 --> 00:37:41,344 Eh, I caught it in the French vocabulary. 526 00:37:43,018 --> 00:37:47,666 In the 80s it was fashionable have an international name. 527 00:37:47,666 --> 00:37:52,092 I was passionate about a comic which was called "Doc Savage" 528 00:37:52,092 --> 00:37:58,253 and I liked the word, "Savage", but pronounced in French. 529 00:38:11,863 --> 00:38:18,602 "Don't cry tonight" was written in a quarter of an hour, ten minutes. 530 00:38:18,602 --> 00:38:22,598 I sat there in the typewriter come si usavano negli anni '80... 531 00:38:22,598 --> 00:38:26,760 I jotted down the lyrics and so she was born. 532 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,568 I, as a character, I'm a little introverted, 533 00:38:29,568 --> 00:38:32,468 so at first find myself in front 534 00:38:32,468 --> 00:38:36,722 to the camera and then also to thousands of people 535 00:38:36,722 --> 00:38:38,408 who look straight ahead towards me 536 00:38:38,408 --> 00:38:42,194 it was a little strong. 537 00:38:42,194 --> 00:38:44,236 Since I didn't know how to dance 538 00:38:44,236 --> 00:38:47,153 and I had to invent it something special, 539 00:38:47,153 --> 00:38:50,373 that's why I had the idea to make gestures with your hands, 540 00:38:50,373 --> 00:38:52,392 maybe put your hands on me before my eyes, 541 00:38:52,392 --> 00:38:55,093 make particular movements. 542 00:39:11,734 --> 00:39:15,076 What characterized Italo disco 543 00:39:15,076 --> 00:39:17,567 it was radical impudence 544 00:39:17,567 --> 00:39:21,646 of many Italian producers, 545 00:39:21,646 --> 00:39:25,382 which they often chose some singers without thinking 546 00:39:25,382 --> 00:39:27,189 to the artist's personality. 547 00:39:27,189 --> 00:39:29,402 It was something new, 548 00:39:29,402 --> 00:39:32,243 what they did in Italy. I didn't know, 549 00:39:32,243 --> 00:39:35,035 nor my husband, 550 00:39:35,035 --> 00:39:37,340 which they put, let's say, 551 00:39:37,340 --> 00:39:39,060 fake artists on the front line. 552 00:39:39,060 --> 00:39:42,091 The fake model 553 00:39:42,091 --> 00:39:45,346 of this musical style it took a little 554 00:39:45,346 --> 00:39:47,655 let's say, from flower to flower. 555 00:39:47,655 --> 00:39:52,019 You needed a body, un gruppo, un coro, 556 00:39:52,019 --> 00:39:54,273 you needed a look, etc. 557 00:39:54,273 --> 00:39:56,030 That was the norm, in Italo disco. 558 00:39:56,030 --> 00:39:58,197 It became a scandal only twenty years later, 559 00:39:58,197 --> 00:40:03,123 in Germany, by chance by Milli Vanilli. 560 00:40:03,123 --> 00:40:08,627 Know that the singers they didn't sing, I mean. 561 00:40:08,627 --> 00:40:10,990 And ask to return their Grammy! 562 00:40:10,990 --> 00:40:14,494 Nobody thought than the idea of fake rumors 563 00:40:14,494 --> 00:40:18,033 had been invented in Italy twenty years earlier. 564 00:40:18,033 --> 00:40:19,684 Or at least normalized. 565 00:40:19,684 --> 00:40:21,795 I saw a few girls get rowdy here. 566 00:40:21,795 --> 00:40:24,989 It only happens for Den Harrow or even for others? 567 00:40:24,989 --> 00:40:28,626 One of the perfect examples of project and a voice 568 00:40:28,626 --> 00:40:31,526 it was Den Harrow. 569 00:40:34,786 --> 00:40:38,397 Everyone knew Tom Hooker he was the singer 570 00:40:38,397 --> 00:40:39,686 and Den Harrow 571 00:40:39,686 --> 00:40:42,933 it was the image that then rose on stage and went on television, 572 00:40:42,933 --> 00:40:45,332 but it was fine with everyone. 573 00:40:45,772 --> 00:40:47,870 It's the same with The Flirts. È lo stesso con... 574 00:40:47,870 --> 00:40:52,451 I don't want to mention any other names, because it's not right, but... 575 00:40:52,451 --> 00:40:56,579 I don't think it really matters. 576 00:41:02,834 --> 00:41:07,942 Den Harrow, pronounced in Italian, it is "money". 577 00:41:07,942 --> 00:41:10,291 And "money" means "money". 578 00:41:10,291 --> 00:41:14,302 Here is the fulcrum of Italo disco, however fictionalized 579 00:41:14,302 --> 00:41:17,732 then by fans and disc jockeys. 580 00:41:18,569 --> 00:41:23,722 Den Harrow, money, money, money. 581 00:41:27,246 --> 00:41:30,713 Fans love specific artists. 582 00:41:30,713 --> 00:41:33,716 They have a dream, an ideal, a love. 583 00:41:33,716 --> 00:41:36,266 And rightly so. It doesn't matter that. 584 00:41:36,266 --> 00:41:41,352 What really matters it's the song, the success. 585 00:41:49,677 --> 00:41:53,367 Fans are very important 586 00:41:53,367 --> 00:41:57,137 because it's your connection with the outside world. 587 00:41:57,577 --> 00:42:01,471 Although Italo disco is dominated by men, 588 00:42:01,471 --> 00:42:06,319 its final phase reveals sensual vitality 589 00:42:06,319 --> 00:42:09,712 di una giovane ragazza that makes you dream 590 00:42:09,712 --> 00:42:12,667 with open eyes millions of his peers. 591 00:42:13,196 --> 00:42:17,624 Every big move needs an icon, 592 00:42:17,624 --> 00:42:21,217 he needs a queen 593 00:42:21,217 --> 00:42:24,927 he needs someone that makes you understand 594 00:42:24,927 --> 00:42:26,428 that times have changed. 595 00:42:26,428 --> 00:42:28,997 This queen, this icon... 596 00:42:28,997 --> 00:42:31,995 Name and surname are enough, without adding anything else. 597 00:42:31,995 --> 00:42:36,457 Sabrina Salerno singing "Boys" 598 00:42:43,284 --> 00:42:48,042 It is the height of epic of Italo disco. 599 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,259 The first time I understood to be very famous, 600 00:42:53,259 --> 00:42:56,357 it was at an airport Spanish. 601 00:42:56,357 --> 00:42:59,737 I was waiting for the luggage together with the road manager 602 00:42:59,737 --> 00:43:02,855 and at a certain point they open the doors and I see 603 00:43:02,855 --> 00:43:07,013 twenty photographers, and I say to myself: “Wow! Surely there will be 604 00:43:07,013 --> 00:43:08,749 Mick Jagger or Rod Stewart". 605 00:43:08,749 --> 00:43:14,734 I made a movie in my head because I was convinced there was a world star. 606 00:43:15,263 --> 00:43:18,074 Those from the record company they warned me, 607 00:43:18,074 --> 00:43:18,956 they told me: 608 00:43:18,956 --> 00:43:23,635 “Look at that on you there's crazy attention." 609 00:43:23,635 --> 00:43:26,967 "You're in first place in the rankings." 610 00:43:29,134 --> 00:43:31,449 And when I went out 611 00:43:31,449 --> 00:43:33,876 I had a shock, because among other things I was... 612 00:43:33,876 --> 00:43:35,408 without makeup, 613 00:43:35,408 --> 00:43:37,302 dressed in sneakers and 614 00:43:37,302 --> 00:43:40,326 very simple jeans like a little girl 615 00:43:40,326 --> 00:43:41,658 of that age. 616 00:43:41,658 --> 00:43:43,773 And there I got into the car and I said: 617 00:43:43,773 --> 00:43:47,164 "Okay, I understand. Now I'm famous." 618 00:43:47,164 --> 00:43:50,745 It was a bit…Wow! A cold shower. 619 00:43:54,445 --> 00:43:56,811 When I sang "Boys" 620 00:43:56,811 --> 00:44:00,235 my pronunciation was terrible, you could tell that I wasn't English. 621 00:44:00,235 --> 00:44:01,160 But... 622 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,774 the video, my physicality 623 00:44:02,774 --> 00:44:06,323 and the song so simple to sing 624 00:44:06,323 --> 00:44:09,619 it was the trump card. 625 00:44:16,137 --> 00:44:17,752 Fellini defines it... 626 00:44:17,752 --> 00:44:19,887 the most eloquent representative 627 00:44:19,887 --> 00:44:21,688 of the Italian woman contemporary... 628 00:44:21,688 --> 00:44:22,326 My goodness! 629 00:44:22,326 --> 00:44:24,883 Feminists in Bilbao... 630 00:44:24,883 --> 00:44:28,917 the first time I performed one New Year's Eve, 631 00:44:28,917 --> 00:44:32,489 they attacked me. 632 00:44:32,489 --> 00:44:34,247 There were, take into account, 633 00:44:34,247 --> 00:44:36,207 thirty thousand people. 634 00:44:36,207 --> 00:44:39,354 Hanno iniziato a tirare bottles on stage. 635 00:44:39,354 --> 00:44:42,886 because for feminists show off the body 636 00:44:42,886 --> 00:44:45,234 it was something wrong, 637 00:44:45,234 --> 00:44:47,573 it was something unfair, 638 00:44:47,573 --> 00:44:50,694 it was something inappropriate. 639 00:44:50,694 --> 00:44:52,229 In reality this is not the case. 640 00:44:52,229 --> 00:44:55,332 I do it with my body the cabbage I want, 641 00:44:55,332 --> 00:44:56,534 first: 642 00:44:56,534 --> 00:44:58,154 I don't let anyone dictate me. 643 00:44:58,154 --> 00:45:00,088 the face is mine. The body is mine. 644 00:45:00,088 --> 00:45:02,397 Many people accuse me perhaps 645 00:45:02,397 --> 00:45:05,887 of using my body too much for this, 646 00:45:05,887 --> 00:45:07,463 to be successful. 647 00:45:07,463 --> 00:45:10,749 This was also done by Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe, 648 00:45:10,749 --> 00:45:14,247 Sophia Loren herself used it the physique to be successful. 649 00:45:14,247 --> 00:45:18,234 I used this role of mine because it was convenient for me, 650 00:45:18,234 --> 00:45:19,060 that's all... 651 00:45:19,060 --> 00:45:22,194 Besides, I had to sell a product... 652 00:45:22,194 --> 00:45:25,491 So I was totally fine with doing it that way. 653 00:45:25,491 --> 00:45:28,295 Perché mai dovrei nascondermi or dress like a nun? 654 00:45:28,295 --> 00:45:30,991 Why shouldn't I use the things I have? After all, it's me! 655 00:45:30,991 --> 00:45:32,264 I'm Sabrina! 656 00:45:32,264 --> 00:45:35,245 Call me a feminist or not a feminist, I don't know. 657 00:45:35,245 --> 00:45:37,046 I'm just saying I'm for equal rights 658 00:45:37,046 --> 00:45:39,273 Rights that still exist today 659 00:45:39,273 --> 00:45:40,921 they aren't there. 660 00:45:46,604 --> 00:45:49,573 Sabrina was a big mess. 661 00:45:49,573 --> 00:45:51,763 Unfortunately we bought it 662 00:45:51,763 --> 00:45:54,289 just Sabrina's first song. 663 00:45:54,289 --> 00:45:55,771 But his second song, 664 00:45:55,771 --> 00:45:59,782 Someone took it from us with an advance payment 665 00:45:59,782 --> 00:46:02,788 of several hundred brands. 666 00:46:02,788 --> 00:46:04,165 A nice nuisance. 667 00:46:04,165 --> 00:46:06,250 Obviously my husband 668 00:46:06,250 --> 00:46:09,945 he didn't want to pay more to deal with his mistakes. 669 00:46:09,945 --> 00:46:12,089 He didn't do it on purpose, of course. 670 00:46:12,089 --> 00:46:14,653 But in the meantime the disk was gone. 671 00:46:14,653 --> 00:46:16,419 It was really a shame. 672 00:46:17,432 --> 00:46:20,663 Even though they are products with little means, 673 00:46:20,663 --> 00:46:22,993 and contrasted with successes like "Boys" 674 00:46:22,993 --> 00:46:24,462 by Sabrina Salerno to say, 675 00:46:24,462 --> 00:46:26,760 are unknown to the public, 676 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,828 there are songs in the cosmos of Italo disco 677 00:46:29,828 --> 00:46:32,673 who know how to cross borders 678 00:46:32,673 --> 00:46:36,322 starting unknowingly a musical revolution. 679 00:46:36,322 --> 00:46:39,818 "Dirty Talk" by Klein and M.B.O., for example, 680 00:46:39,818 --> 00:46:42,836 registered in Forli already in 1982 681 00:46:42,836 --> 00:46:46,903 and then welcomed with open arms in Chicago. 682 00:46:48,312 --> 00:46:50,299 Those were the milestones 683 00:46:50,299 --> 00:46:54,926 of dance and culture linked to electronic music. 684 00:46:54,926 --> 00:46:56,121 A very simple pop text, 685 00:46:56,121 --> 00:47:00,719 at the same time magical and brilliant. 686 00:47:04,727 --> 00:47:08,947 There was a radio station in Chicago, Hot Mix Five. 687 00:47:09,167 --> 00:47:11,869 He had three or four black DJs of local fame, 688 00:47:11,869 --> 00:47:15,815 which didn't seem certain musicians, but they were. 689 00:47:15,815 --> 00:47:18,056 They loved the Italo disco sound 690 00:47:18,056 --> 00:47:22,183 and they wanted to try to imitate him. 691 00:47:22,183 --> 00:47:26,075 That sound would become house music, 692 00:47:26,075 --> 00:47:29,298 yet in reality it just was a bad copy 693 00:47:29,298 --> 00:47:32,532 dell'Italo disco, che a sua volta it was a bad copy 694 00:47:32,532 --> 00:47:35,923 of American disco. Madness! 695 00:47:36,231 --> 00:47:41,062 We return to the starting point, in an eternal virtuous circle. 696 00:47:43,793 --> 00:47:46,916 After all, the Italians had already experienced 697 00:47:46,916 --> 00:47:49,946 this cultural mix in the world of cinema. 698 00:47:49,946 --> 00:47:53,449 With great success, too. 699 00:47:54,770 --> 00:47:58,533 Italo disco it's like the Italian western. 700 00:47:58,533 --> 00:48:01,148 The founding myth 701 00:48:01,148 --> 00:48:03,142 of the United States of America 702 00:48:03,142 --> 00:48:09,512 is created from scratch from a genre: "Spaghetti Westerns". 703 00:48:09,512 --> 00:48:14,442 Likewise, Italo disco is created. 704 00:48:14,442 --> 00:48:16,441 There is something that unites them. 705 00:48:16,441 --> 00:48:18,577 The fact that these two worlds 706 00:48:18,577 --> 00:48:20,710 They were also successful abroad 707 00:48:20,710 --> 00:48:22,904 but they were produced in Italy. 708 00:48:22,904 --> 00:48:27,924 I among other things having my father who was soundtrack composer, 709 00:48:27,924 --> 00:48:29,809 also for this type of film 710 00:48:29,809 --> 00:48:32,763 I find that they can be lumped together. 711 00:48:32,763 --> 00:48:35,460 I loved both, myself. The American Western 712 00:48:35,460 --> 00:48:37,900 and the Italian western. 713 00:48:37,900 --> 00:48:38,930 And the same way 714 00:48:38,930 --> 00:48:43,428 I loved Italo disco. 715 00:48:43,428 --> 00:48:45,951 At the end of the 80s, the passion for Italo disco 716 00:48:45,951 --> 00:48:48,806 slowly begins to fade away, 717 00:48:48,806 --> 00:48:52,827 and music that for 10 years filled Italian summers 718 00:48:52,827 --> 00:48:56,183 and transalpine winters with its sparkling sound 719 00:48:56,183 --> 00:49:01,790 He thus disappears from the scene musicale internazionale. 720 00:49:03,332 --> 00:49:04,780 Unfortunately, 721 00:49:04,780 --> 00:49:08,307 it also became a little the "sausage factory", 722 00:49:08,307 --> 00:49:10,449 because structures were born 723 00:49:10,449 --> 00:49:13,623 which placed eight people 724 00:49:13,623 --> 00:49:16,368 to make music every day, 725 00:49:16,368 --> 00:49:19,387 so at that point that element was lost 726 00:49:19,387 --> 00:49:22,170 which was, a little... personal. 727 00:49:22,170 --> 00:49:24,209 The magic was gone. 728 00:49:27,645 --> 00:49:30,711 When the end of the eighties 729 00:49:30,711 --> 00:49:34,009 when they told us that this genre was over, 730 00:49:34,009 --> 00:49:35,618 and that even vinyl was finished, 731 00:49:35,618 --> 00:49:38,232 we haven't freed ourselves of all the burdens, 732 00:49:38,232 --> 00:49:41,452 of these warehouses that were packed. 733 00:49:43,738 --> 00:49:46,309 After the hiatus of the 90s, anyway, 734 00:49:46,309 --> 00:49:49,460 at the beginning of the new millennium, with the advent of the internet, 735 00:49:49,460 --> 00:49:51,595 Italo disco music is back 736 00:49:51,595 --> 00:49:56,636 to cheer up the fans from all over the world. 737 00:49:58,134 --> 00:50:02,921 In the 80s I didn't know many people 738 00:50:02,921 --> 00:50:05,755 passionate about Italo like me. 739 00:50:05,755 --> 00:50:06,999 But in the 2000s, 740 00:50:06,999 --> 00:50:09,563 internet he made his entrance 741 00:50:09,563 --> 00:50:11,472 on the music scene, and so there was a surprise. 742 00:50:11,472 --> 00:50:13,796 The rebirth of Italo disco. 743 00:50:13,796 --> 00:50:17,197 In a very short time I became friends with whom 744 00:50:17,197 --> 00:50:21,899 in the world he had the passion which animated me too. 745 00:50:24,101 --> 00:50:28,935 She took a break, but now she's back. 746 00:50:28,935 --> 00:50:31,326 Italo disco has a following so strong, 747 00:50:31,326 --> 00:50:33,588 although very specific, 748 00:50:33,588 --> 00:50:37,094 that will never die, that's it. It will remain forever. 749 00:50:37,843 --> 00:50:42,169 Gli anni '80 sono tornati. We are all back on stage 750 00:50:42,169 --> 00:50:45,001 after 30 years, and it's incredible. 751 00:50:45,001 --> 00:50:47,900 The world needs it now. 752 00:50:56,973 --> 00:51:00,957 Italo disco is archaic, 753 00:51:00,957 --> 00:51:02,732 it is ancestral. 754 00:51:02,732 --> 00:51:05,749 It is neither modern nor postmodern. 755 00:51:07,070 --> 00:51:09,560 It is primitive, immediate, 756 00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:10,577 dermal, 757 00:51:10,577 --> 00:51:12,357 sweaty, 758 00:51:13,723 --> 00:51:18,893 unpresentable, you scoundrel. 759 00:51:18,893 --> 00:51:21,707 She's beautiful. 760 00:51:36,330 --> 00:51:38,400 Music is art. 761 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:39,805 Sometimes craftsmanship, 762 00:51:39,805 --> 00:51:41,050 but in both cases, 763 00:51:41,050 --> 00:51:43,681 it needs tricks to survive. 764 00:51:43,681 --> 00:51:46,082 We are our wiles we had finished them, 765 00:51:46,082 --> 00:51:48,832 we had the cards all of them already played. 766 00:51:48,832 --> 00:51:50,000 And we thought 767 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,567 that is no longer there. 768 00:51:51,567 --> 00:51:54,874 Instead, today we have still cards to play. 769 00:51:54,874 --> 00:51:57,033 This time we will play them all the way. 770 00:51:57,033 --> 00:51:59,105 We won't throw away the records never go away again, 771 00:51:59,105 --> 00:52:02,678 word of honor. DJ's word.