Amedeo Minghi: “I sang Ozzy’s songs in the Roman cellars”

On the evening of 22 July Amedeo Minghi decided to remember Ozzy Osbourne, missed for a few hourswith a post on social networks which became viralcapable of generating thousands and thousands of comments: “Great artist and I, a youthful fan, I sang him in the Roman cellars as it was in use those years. Blessed youth. You will be unforgettable. “Few probably expected the composer and songwriter, Famous among the many things for his duet with Mietta in “Vattene Love”, which became a catchphrase for the verse “Dududada Amoroso Trorocal”was a Heavy Metal fan. Minghi, submerged by the interactions, in these days, always on Facebook, is continuing to return to the matter: “I don’t understand the surprise that surprises. Music for me has no gender or labels. There is only the good one made well and with the heart or that bad done badly or clever. Ozzy was exactly as we have seen him in all these years and who could say that his music is not original and that he was innovative yesterday as today? “.

Then he continues: “Of course, not hell on the bonfire on the beach (for that there is Battisti),
But why should we hum everything we like? It is pleasant to be good listeners as in my time we did
. We listened. A great generation of mine, of immense artists who will hardly be equal and let alone overcome, and Ozzy was one of them. “And go, down, another avalanche of comments.
One of the latest answers by Minghi, with the publication on his bulletin board of the song “Only When I Walk Away” by Justin Timberlake, as if to demonstrate his opening V
erso music apparently distant from his,
he recalled an anecdote
who has left many users of stucco.

In 2013, in the middle of the worldwide success of
“The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2”, Timberlake in fact inserted a very surprising all Italian presence on the credits of one of the songs
. Yes, exactly: it was Amedeo Minghi.
In the song “Only When I Walk Away”, Timberlake championship “Lustful”, an instrumental piece of Minghi from 1972
appeared in the compilation “Underground Mood”. The Italian artist officially appears in credits. “It was my editor of the Flippermusic who acts as a link to the American Subitor who

proposed to Timberlake to listen to the compilation
. And he chose my songs, which were two, and finally concentrated on the ‘lustful’ alone, “Minghi told at the time.