Un name, a myth. At least for the millions of fans who have followed him everywhere for over four decades. Tonight at around 9.35pm on Channel 5 goes on air Vasco Rossi – The magnificent 7a special dedicated to the Italian rocker most loved of all time and the 7 concerts he held at the San Siro stadium in Milan in summer 2024.
Vasco Rossi – The magnificent 7 tonight on Canale 5
The documentary is written and directed by Giorgio Verdelli and brings together the material collected over the course of seven evenings. Anecdotes, stories and testimonies offered by some of the 400,000 spectators coming from all over Italy, which make up a unique show, led by a special interviewer: Claudio Amendola.
With the Roman actor and director Vasco will speak in a completely empty stadium. A journey through its history will begin, made up of songs that changed Italian music and which immediately became immortal, but also of love and devotion on the part of the people who have followed it since its inception.
A journey also behind the scenes of an event which gave the singer the record of 36 sold out events in the Milanese stadium. Therefore, everything that happens before his arrival on stage, from backstage to the entrance of the fans which Mediaset – in the official previews of the evening – defines as a “pilgrimage” and “mass rite”.
“Vasco Rossi – The Magnificent Seven”. (Simoni)
The songs in the setlist
A definition that would seem risky for anyone, but not for Vasco. For over forty yearsin fact, is revered by those who listen to him and appreciate him, beyond imagination. He is not “just” a singer, but The singer who becomes a guiding spirit through his songs. Like all favorites, he accompanies the lives of those who listen to him, becoming an incontrovertible point of reference.
It is no coincidence, in fact, Vasco Rossi – The magnificent 7 it will begin with a significant phrase: «Not a concert, but a free association of souls». Among the songs in the set list, Albachiara, If I could tell you, It’s just us, The mistakes you make, It doesn’t take much, How old are you and the hit of hits. The song that turned the Komandante’s life around: Reckless life.
It will also reveal how it came about Sally. “I was on holiday on a boat belonging to my manager at the time,” he said. «I enter a club, I see a beautiful girl and I fall in love, then I fall in love with another (…) I found myself outside the club thinking about a 35 year old girl who had already seen it all».
The guests, from Eros Ramazzotti to Emma
During the evening, the documentary will see the participation of several artists, who flocked to the Meazza to attend one of the seven concerts. There will be Eros Ramazzottiwhose greatest memory of Vasco is linked to the beginning of their career, to the 80s, when they were both trying to make their way in music.
Emma defines herself as a big fan of Vasco. «I’ve been listening to his music since I was a little girl. He talks about women in a unique way because he venerates them. He loves them, he adores them, his language is so poetic, so romantic. When he wrote to me I am beautiful I understood everything about his language and I got into it.”
Giuseppe Fiorello attended a concert together with his son Nicolawho considers the songs of the rocker from Zocca “a support and a breath of fresh air”. Still, for Luca Argentero «Vasco is the greatest history of Italian music and has a lowest common denominator: emotions.”
For NaomiFurthermore, the Komandante concerts are «the show par excellence. His setlist is not made up of hits, but of evergreens.” Among the artists who will also participate Roberto Bolle, J-Ax, Ornella Muti, Riccardo Zanotti of I Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, Gazzelle, Olly, Bresh, Tedua, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci.
On Canale 5 the documentary dedicated to Vasco Rossi, “The Magnificent 7”. (Villans)
The Magnificent SevenVasco Rossi «the voice of the voiceless»
Regarding the success that has characterized his conquest of the musical firmament, Vasco Rossi will reveal to Claudio Amendola: «I like to think I am the voice of the voiceless. I am the voice of humble, normal people who have 60,000 problems and anxieties. I am their voice and in the end we all feel a little better.”
A realistic photograph of Vasco’s effect on people. One of his merits is precisely that of reaching those who listen to him by bringing himself and then creating an unparalleled sense of belonging. «In my songs I am honest and sincere», he will always confess to Amendola.
«I tell what comes from inside me. I’ve made mistakes in life and telling them has freed me. By telling my weaknesses I thought I was venting myself but instead (…) when I tell them, those who have them inside themselves feel represented and feel lighter by sharing.”
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