NOn there was a ladder that expected it, nor clues that let him suspect. And instead, on the evening of August 10, on the stage of Loredana Bertè In La Spezia, it is Appearance Renato Zero. A slow step, the smile a little excited, then the phrase that made the public explode: “I wanted to come so far to remind Loredana that we are the best years of our life”. The embrace which followed was a wonderful gesture, the closure – or perhaps the beginning – of a friendship that had been missing for almost thirty years.
The friendship between Loredana Bertè and Renato Zero
In the 70s and 80s, Loredana Bertè, Mia Martini and Renato Zero were inseparable. A trio born among the evenings at the Piper in Rome, the desire to make music and the light -heartedness of those who build the future day by day. Loredana shared with Renato not only the stage but also moments of daily life, complicity and artistic projects. And when in 1995 the My sister Martini died suddenlywas the interpreter of I sell myself To stand by them: He supported it in the most difficult days, trying to give her strength and encouraging her to return to singat a time when the pain risked making them abandon everything.
Renato Zero and Loredana Bertè in 1985. Credit: Luciano Viti/Getty Images
The break in 1996
There however it came in 1996during the processing of a new album. According to Bertè’s version, Renato Zero would have asked for a considerable sum for the recorded songs in the Fonopoli studies, retaining the material. She replied by starting a legal action and starting again with new arrangements. “I was amazed: from friends you don’t expect such a thing”will then say. It was the beginning of a silence almost three decades long, interrupted only by some timid attempt to rapproche, such as that Ai Wind Music Awards of 2013, never went further.
An open wound
For years, Loredana Bertè has admitted to continue to love him, but to feel wounded: “The wound is still open today”. Despite this, in recent times he had let him glimpse a glimmer: “I miss a lot, it depends on him”confessed to Belve just over a year ago. Renato, in the past, had replied with irony: “She has improved a lot since I don’t attend it… Obviously love can continue at a distance ».
The evening of reconciliation between Loredana Bertè and Renato Zero
On the night of August 10, 2025, the stage of the tour 50 years as a rebel in La Spezia. On stage, Loredana Bertè is singing A stupid excusesong written in collaboration with the Boomdabash When Renato Zero appears from the backstage. Sixty seconds and the atmosphere transforms: the public explodes, she remains speechless. “I wanted to come so far to remember Loredana that we are the best years of our life,” he says at the microphone. Then, aimed at the audience: “Loredana, a myth!”. Follow the embrace and applause that seem to erase years of frost.
Neither has announced common projects, but among the fans the dream of a tour together or an unpublished song. For now, the beautiful image of two icons remains which, under the stars of San Lorenzo, have shown that time can extend the distances, but do not turn off the real ties.
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