Ligabue: 14 Italian artists Ricanto “Happy birthday Elvis”
It is one of the most loved albums among those engraved by Ligabue, which this year celebrates its thirtieth anniversary: it contains classics such as “Live or dead X”, “Light”, “sitting on the shore at the ditch” and, of course, “certain nights”. Now “Happy Birthday Elvis” returns to the shops, thirty years after its publication, in an unpublished guise: the 14 songs contained in the 1995 album were reinterpreted and reinforced by as many artists, all friends and colleagues of the Rocker of Correggio.
The project will have as the title “Happy Birthday Elvis – Covered”. The artists involved in the project have not yet been disclosed. It is not unlikely to think that these are artists with whom Ligabue has had in one way or another to do, over the years. Elisafor example, for which in 2006 he signed “the obstacles of the heart” and in 2014 “in your way”. The singer of “Luce (sunsets in the north east)”, however, is not new to the cover of the rocker: in 2010 for the album “Ivy” revisited “I put away”, one of the songs taken from “Survivors and survives” of 1993. Another colleague who has ventured with a cover of a success in Ligabue is Gazelle: in 2022 the Roman singer -songwriter reached Ligabue on the stage of the ACF Arena of Reggio Emilia to sing with him “Love counts”, from the album “Name and surname” of 2005.
A song of “Happy Birthday Elvis” boasts a live cover of a big name in Italian pop like Max Pezzali: in 2023 the former 883 sang on the stage of the Rchi Arena of Reggio Emilia “Light” on the occasion of the Italian Loves Romagna charity concert.
Small curiosity: “Sitting on the shore at the ditch” is one of the favorite songs of an icon of the Italian rock songwriter and alternative as Vasco Brondi. The former one-man-man frontman The lights of the power plant in the past said: “When he came out ‘Happy birthday Elvis’ I was 14 years old. I turned around in the scooter with my friends and our meeting point was the argument of the Po. I listened to ‘Sitting on the shore at the ditch’: it seemed that that song spoke of us. And so ‘certain nights’. To write and sing of such a modest place, to make it a poetics “. Who knows that he is not there too, in the project.
