THEtimeless and multifaceted star of Italian TV, From tomorrow evening Renzo Arbore returns to Rai 2 in the late evening with the new program Next to the music. Award-winning musical antique shop.
Show in twenty episodes which will be broadcast every Thursday in the late evening on Rai 2. A journey to the sound of music, anecdotes and memories where the Apulian showman will retrace over fifty years of his career.
Next to the musicthe new program by Renzo Arbore on Rai 2
Produced by Rai Cultura and written by Arbore himselftogether with his legendary sidekick Gege Telesforothe transmission wants to offer a unique and overwhelming look at the history of Italian entertainment from the second half of the twentieth century.
Through anecdotes, curiosities and video contributionsoften unpublished, taken from the shows and television programs that the Foggia showmanvery fresh at almost 87 years old, has achieved over the course of a career of over sixty years.
A special occasion therefore to get to know the history and importance that Renzo Arbore had in the world of entertainment at 360 degrees. Since his own very early years of career towards the mid-1960s.
«With Gegè, my godson – Arbore told ANSA – we went to fish out, with the complicity of Rai Teche, “pieces” of my long television career dedicated to music.
Let’s say it’s a sample of my television: from Lucio Battisti to Minafrom Massimo Troisi together with my friend Gianni Minà, up to my first TV appearances with Lino Banfi”.
To then add «Precisely because it is, in a certain sense, musical “antiques”, the very careful restoration and audio remastering work of the Rai archives must be underlinedas these are materials that are more than 60 years old”.
Renzo Arbore and Gegè Telesforo in the study of “Appresso alla musica”. (Rai Press Office)
Who will we see again in the first episode
In the studio together with Gegè, Arbore will not have real guests but in each stage of his journey he will recall some “guests” of great protagonists of Italian entertainmentnot just musical.
In the January 4 episode, for example, we will find a very young Patty Pravoguest in the historic program Special for you conducted together with his historical friend Gianni Boncompagni between 1969 and 1970. But it doesn’t end there.
Space also for the late Gigi Proiettiprotagonist together with Arbore in the 1992 broadcast Dear Totò, I want to introduce youthe Neapolitan singer and drummer Tullio De Piscopoguest in 1990 a The Sanremo caseshow hosted by Arbore and Lino Banfi.
And, last but not least, the legendary Bandiera Sistersstar performers of the cult program The other Sunday.
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