Claudio Lolli

Biography

Claudio Lolli (Bologna, Italy, March 28, 1950 - Bologna, August 17, 2018) was an Italian singer-songwriter, poet, writer and secondary school teacher. His first musical experiences started in the early 70s into the Osteria delle Dame of Bologna. Francesco Guccini introduced him into the music company EMI Italiana, who edited his first four LP from 1972 to 1976. The themes of his albums are incentered into political issues, as for example the album Un uomo in crisi he follows the events of Anton...

Claudio Lolli (Bologna, Italy, March 28, 1950 - Bologna, August 17, 2018) was an Italian singer-songwriter, poet, writer and secondary school teacher.

His first musical experiences started in the early 70s into the Osteria delle Dame of Bologna. Francesco Guccini introduced him into the music company EMI Italiana, who edited his first four LP from 1972 to 1976. The themes of his albums are incentered into political issues, as for example the album Un uomo in crisi he follows the events of Antonio Gramsci's life, but also in personal event of life, as the song "quando la morte avrà" (when death will be). His main success are the songs "Ho visto anche degli zingari felici", "Aspettando Godot", "Michel", "Quando la morte avrà", "Quanto amore", "Borghesia", that are nowadays recognized as classic songs of Italian popular music of the 1970s.

He started his career as a writer in the early 1980s and he has written five novels in twenty years. Antipatici antipodi, his first work, that Lolli started writing in 1972, was published in 1997.

Discography

Albums
Aspettando Godot (1972)
Un uomo in crisi. Canzoni di morte. Canzoni di vita (March 13, 1973)
Canzoni di rabbia (10/2/1975)
Ho visto anche degli zingari felici (7/4/1976)
Disoccupate le strade dai sogni (1977)
Extranei (April 30, 1980)
Antipatici antipodi (1/3/1983)
Claudio Lolli (6/5/1988)
Nove pezzi facili (1992)
Intermittenze del cuore (1997)
Viaggio in Italia (1998)
Dalla parte del torto (2000)
La terra, la luna e l'abbondanza [live] (2002)
Ho visto anche degli zingari felici [live] (4/2003)
La via del mare [live] (October 29, 2005)
La scoperta dell'America (7/4/2006)

45 rpm
Aspettando Godot/Michel (9/11/1972)
Un uomo in crisi/La guerra è finita (May 30, 1973)
Analfabetizzazione/I giornali di marzo (1977)

Anthologies
Piazza... strade... sogni, 1995
Collezione, February 15, 2001
Made in Italy, February 25, 2004
Studio collection, September 23, 2005
Claudio Lolli: the best of platinum, 9/3/2007

Bibliography

Works of Claudio Lolli
L'inseguitore Peter H. – Il lavoro editoriale, 1984
Giochi crudeli – Transeuropa, 1990
Nei sogni degli altri – Marsilio, 1995
Antipatici antipodi – 1972–1997, City lights Italia, 1997
Rumore rosa – Stampa Alternativa, 2004, ISBN 88-7226-827-3
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