Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
D.As a young girl I was a Rollingstonian with no ifs and buts, when I grew up I became a convinced Beatlesian.
Among the infinite variables aroused by musical passions, there is also this possibility with regard to the Hamletic question that has torn my generation apart: do you prefer the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?
From the top of a fair age I have finally solved the question and I can say with Olympic calm that I preferred, and I still prefer, both of them.
The song, however, that ignited a spark of rebellion and independence in my quiet life of jeune fille en fleur it was without a doubt Satisfaction of the Stones, a nihilistic and cheeky hymn that pushed the boys like tarantolates to subvert the values and rules imposed by their familieshorrified by those sounds, and even more by the image of these insolent rockers with a fiery red tongue as a symbol.
Apart from the songs – which I know all by heart anyway – it was precisely that necessary dose of irreverence that fascinated mean after-school essential for a correct adolescent growth.
Once I crossed this shadow line, the Beatles arrived to kidnap my imagination, which needed poetry and creativity to find its way.
Just when they broke up, I began to love the Beatleswho, fortunately, had left us such an impressive legacy that we can still fish freely in their repertoire without ever feeling tired.
“Beatles and Rolling Stones. Apollonian and Dionysian ”by Gino Castaldo (Einaudi).
If you too, like me, have oscillated between these two musical divinities, you cannot miss the new book by Gino Castaldo, Beatles and Rolling Stones. Apollonian and Dionysian (Einaudi), a small essay essential to review together this epochal challenge between two apparently opposite world views but, on closer inspection, with more points in common than we have been led to believe.
The author takes us by the hand and accompanies us in a journey full of anecdotes and reflections through the history of the two bands that have punctuated the lives of millions of fans around the world.
Whether you are Beatlesians like Federico Fellini or Rolling Stones like Martin Scorsese, in the end – as after a relaxing psychoanalytic group session – you will finally recognize yourself “in a boy who, like me, loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones”, as the good Morandi had prophesied in the past. suspicions by healing any opposition in the bud.
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