Ten songs that Vasco has never sung live (or almost)

2025 was yet another year to remember for Vasco Rossi: 600 thousand tickets sold for the stadium tour (which brought the total number of spectators gathered under the stages from 2022 to today to 3 million), 400 million streams on the platforms for his songs, awards, recognition and so on. 2026 has yet to begin, but for the rocker from Zocca it promises to be another record year. There is no news of new music by Vasco – the latest album, “We are here”, dates back to 2021 – but the anticipation for the tour that will see him return to Italy next summer is, as always, already sky-high. And the tickets are all sold out. For the tour that will start on May 30th from the Romeo Neri Stadium in Rimini, the rocker has promised many surprises. Starting from the setlist: «A definition for the set list? Amazing, exciting, incredible, unimaginable. With a lot of pieces that have never been heard live. Unpublished and rarities. So many goodies”, the voice of “Vita spericolata” made known on social media in recent days, directly from the Bolognese studio where he is already working on the show. A few words, which however immediately started the hunt for the complete lineup. Sifting through Setlist.Fm, an archive that impeccably collects the concert setlists, drawn up directly by fans and enthusiasts, we looked for the titles of ten songs that Vasco has never sung live, or almost. You can find them below: who knows (at least) a couple of these songs will end up in the 2026 tour setlist.

“You who slept softly (flew away)”

Vasco performed it only once, on 20 August 1977 at the Politeama in San Martino Spino, before the release of his debut album “…Ma cosa viso che sia una canzone…”, which would only arrive in stores in the spring of the following year.

“Okay (if I really have to tell you)”

This song with a jazzy, unsettling style was sung by Vasco on 14 November 1979 at the Discoteca Due Stelle in Reggiolo, where he stopped with the “We are not the Americans!” tour. He has not been heard in concert since.

“Fifteen years ago”

Another song from the album “We are not the Americans!”, also performed on 14 November 1979 at the Discoteca Due Stelle in Reggiolo, but before that on 26 May of the same year in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna.

“Susanna”

Contained in “Colpa d’Alfredo” of 1980, it was performed by Vasco on 1 September of that year in Rome on the stage of the Festa Nazionale de L’Unità and on 14 November at the Bologna Motorshow, then in 1983 at the Palasport in Cantù during the “Bollicine” tour.

“Blue eyes”

It is one of the songs contained in the 1993 album “Gli Spari Sopra”. Vasco sang it on 17 April 2010 at the PalaOlimpico in Turin.

“Will you stay still!”

Another song from “Gli ordini sopra”. Vasco sang it on 17 April 1993 at the Eishalle in Kloten, Switzerland, then again on 27 April at the PalaMaggiò in Castel Morrone and on 30 April at the PalaPentimele in Reggio Calabria.

The cover of “Supermarket” by Lucio Battisti

Never recorded, but performed in its entirety, not in a medley with other pieces, on three different occasions. On 1 September 1980 in Rome at the L’Unità National Festival, on 14 December of the same year at the Bologna Motorshow and on 22 October 1998 at the Premio Tenco.

“And the morning”

First track from the 1998 album “Canzoni per me”. Vasco performed it on three dates of the tour that year: those on 16 and 17 June at the Volkshaus in Zurich and the one on 20 June at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola on the occasion of the Heineken Jammin’ Festival.

“I need you”

Contained in the 2008 album “Il mondo che would like”, this song does not appear to have ever been officially sung in concert by Vasco, but in 2012 he had fans listen to it during the rehearsals for that year’s tour at the Cromie disco in Castellaneta Marina.

“Marta is still crying”

The song dates back to the 1997 studio sessions which then led to the album “Canzoni per me”, but remained outside the tracklist of that album. Vasco sang it in 2010, surprisingly, on the stage of the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence, before finally deciding to include the song in 2014 in the album “Sono Innocent”, without however playing it in the concerts of the related tour.