Guccini replies to Jovanotti: “Gloria? It’s not like the Locomotive”

To the comparison between “Gloria” by Umberto Tozzi and his “La locomotiva”, Francesco Guccini says “no”. Jovanotti made the parallel in an interview for Corriere della Sera: “‘Gloria’ has nothing to envy of ‘Locomotiva’, my favorite singer-songwriters are Dalla and Battiato, precisely because they are very pop. But De Gregori is also it is,” Jova explained.

In a preview of the episode of “Timeline”, broadcast on Sunday at 2.30 pm on Rai3 (you can see the video here), Guccini explained why he does not share this analysis: “‘La locomotiva’ is a popular song, so it could easily be taken as a popular song, so it’s a simple song. In its complexity, it’s a simple song of mine, my other songs, ‘Amerigo’, for example, ‘Van Loon’ for example. say another, ‘Odysseus’, one of the latest, there are books behind it, there are some readings, I would like to use a big word like ‘culture’, but there is culture a song that you enjoy listening to, but there isn’t a story behind it, there isn’t something called culture, which is called books that have been read to us. There is intellectual work behind certain songs, and I don’t want it make class A, class B. However, there is a whole different world that isn’t behind ‘Gloria’. Even if it’s a beautiful song, a nice song.”