27,029 days by Claudio Baglioni: life is (still) now
Twenty -seventh -centilioventinters of Claudio Baglioni. We mention his hit, of course “a thousand days of you and me”, to celebrate the Roman singer -songwriter on his birthday. Today the voice of “Strada” turning “turns 74. It was 1970 when, just nineteen, the Centocelle singer -songwriter – the neighborhood of the Roman outskirts in which he grew up – made his debut with the eponymous album sent to the shops by the Italian RCA. The success would come two years later with “This little great love”, containing the Hit homonymous which in 1985 would have been awarded as an Italian song of the century. From the same “a thousand days of you and me” to “this little great love”, passing through “road making”, “you will have”, “and how are you?”, “Bello”, “and you …”, “away”: the playlist that you find below, and that you can listen by clicking on “play“, contains all the greatest successes of his repertoire. A Greatest Hits to listen to on this day of celebration, while waiting for another anniversary is growing: The forty years of “Life is now”, the best -selling Italian album of all time, which is preparing to return to the shops in a new version.
It was June 8, 1985 when “Life is now” arrived on the shelves of the record stores: the result of two, very long years of processing in the United Kingdom between the Manor Studio of Oxford, Abbey Road and the Town House in London, the album saw Baglioni break a four -year record silence, as many as they had passed since the exit of the previous “Strada doing”. The publication of the disc was accompanied by high expectations: after all, Baglioni with “Strada doing” had consecrated himself as a pop star capable of moving the great masses. But the sales data of “La vita è now” even came to overcome the forecasts of the records: the Ellepì remained for twenty -seven consecutive weeks, or six months, in the first place in the ranking of the best -selling records in Italy. To date, it is the best -selling album of all time in history in Italy with 4.5 million copies confirmed by Sony Music.
There are two initiatives that celebrate Claudio Baglioni and this legendary forties anniversary: a record project And an editorial.
Sony Music Italy offers a unique record project, already preordainable (https://bio.to/lavitaeaesso), And Available from 6 June in double vinyl in the Gatefold package and 4 different formats, in CD and digital in Dolby Atmos: it is a remake of “Life is now” entitled “Life is now, the dream is always” which has seen Baglioni revisited with sounds and current styles the eleven songs originally contained in the heel of 1985, without betraying its original essence and the artistic sense and the artistic sense. Each trace was Rissed and sung in the studio livewith Renewed arrangements and with the contemporary presence of all musicians and singers in the room How to create a Direct narrative thread between the then project and today’s idea.
The tracklist of the record project is Composed of the 10 tracks of the 1985 album and the song “The dream is always”that Baglioni included in 1986 on the live album “solo”.
The cover and booklets of this record project retrace the narrative that connects past, present and future, through the concept and photos taken in the studio, during the recordings of the album, from the internationally renowned photographer Toni Thorimbertwhich also signed the iconic cover and the photographic kit of the 1985 publication.
This record work is flanked by Super deluxe box “life is now, the dream is always”, conceived and made by Edizioni Curci – in a limited edition of a thousand numbered copies – available starting from June 11 and pre -orders (https://www.edizionicurci.it/lvea) in Online store, in bookstores and at music and record retailers.
The box includes three special content, starting with Artist’s book by Emiliano Ponzi, One of the major Italian contemporary visual artists: a refined Coffee table book, large format (31.5×31.5 cm), in which Ponzi’s tables capture, interpret and redesign the themes and intuitions of the songs of “Life is now” by transforming the lyrics of Baglioni into images of as much extraordinary intensity. Each illustration is a invitation to rediscover the spirit of the album Thatintercepting the dreams of Italy of the eighties, it reaches our days with the same and intact ability to speak still to everyone’s heart. A luxury edition collector, in which Emiliano Ponzi’s figurations approach phrases extracted from the compositions in a harmonious emotional flow. The creation of instantaneous paintings that tell relationships, feelings, gestures and facts of daily life, poised between desires and memories.
The box also includes The version of the double black vinyl (180 gr), including Booklet, of “Life is now, the dream is always” in the new edition with which Sony Music Italy celebrates 40 years of this album.
Embellishes the editorial project one author postcard, signed by Claudio Baglioni, in which the stretch of Emiliano Ponzi He intertwines with the autograph signature of the singer -songwriter, in a symbolic fusion of the two artists and their art, united in a message of greeting and gratitude to the public listeners.
