Luis Miguel Dominguínlegendary Spanish bullfighter, had an obsession: the manhood. Man, in his conception, had to be macho, rude, courageous, fearless, resolute. All characteristics that, in his opinion, his son Miguel Bosénow 65 years old, did not possess. And as Bosé himself tells in the book THEthe son of Captain Thunderto subject him to a sort of “rite of passage” to adulthood and stimulate his own repressed manhoodhis father inflicted one on him terrible torture.
Miguel Bosé recounts in a book the follies suffered by his father
“When I was 10 years old they sewed me alive inside the carcass of a deer“, has explained.
“They have it emptied from the bowelsthen they left me in there. I fainted: for the claustrophobia, for the lack of air, for the brutality of the gesture, “he said. Her parents, she added, “they were monsters»Which made his childhood« a real one hell“.
Spain, 1955. Miguel Bosé’s parents.
This, and other stories, are present in the volume that will be released in bookstores in Italy on March 8th for Rizzoli.
The book, from which one will be born TV series filming is already underway for Paramount +is a collection of memories, anecdotes and background of the first part – the story stops before its debut in the world of music – of life of the singer.
Miguel Bosé, the book out on 8 March
Here, Miguel Bosé puts on for the first time bare without reticence and tells the story of his childhood and adolescence, with him and his sisters at the mercy of an “omnipotent” fatherused to the fact that his will was lawand a mother of legendary beauty, the splendid Lucia Bosé.
The book “The son of Captain Thunder”.
In his stories they recur lesser known aspects of legendary figures who attended his family, like Picasso, Helmut Berger, his godfather Luchino Visconti, Romy Schneider, Amanda Lear and other personalities among the most significant of the art and culture of the last century.
“My father and my mother they loved each other with a brutal passion in a Spain populated by characters who made and unmade the twentieth centuryHe said. “My book is not a settling of scores against them, but an exercise in understanding. I wrote it in a fictional way, I would say cinematic“.
The anddoto with Pablo Picasso
Among the most significant anecdotes in the book, one concerns the figure of Picasso, a great friend of his parents. The famous painter was the first to bring Miguel, at just 4 years old, to dance classinfuriating his father.
Picasso, pictured with Lucia Bosé, was a great family friend.
“At the end-of-year play I peed underneath, because I was dressed as a cloud and I was ashamed », Bose continues in the book. But Picasso managed to save the little one from shame and from humiliation: «He came to me and said to me: you are the best of all. You are the only cloud that made it rain ».
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