Vasco, 30 years of "rock under the siege": the memory and the videos

Vasco, 30 years of “rock under the siege”: the memory and the videos

ByJohn

“‘Rock under the siege’ began with the poetry of Francesco De Gregori ‘General’, to immediately slam the focus of the show, the speech to carry on” immediately on the gaming table “: Vasco Rossi writes it on social media, remembering the two concerts that on 7 and 8 July 1995, thirty years ago exactly, saw Zocca’s rocker make the story at San Siro with a double concert event,” The siege “, in fact, against the war in Yugoslavia. More than 100 thousand spectators participated in the two shows. On stage, musical groups of different ethnic groups were hosted, made to come clandestinely from the war areas with the help of collaborators such as the photojournalist Massimo Sciacca and the organizer Enrico Rovelli.

“In what today is the former Yugoslavia, in the Balkans, there was war. Sarajevo was under siege, the bridge had already fallen. The idea was born after seeing the photos taken by Massimo Sciacca, a service on the musical groups that played in the besieged Sarajevo. We decided to let out a group from there, to host it on the stage, to organize a manifestation that united and the desire to make it possible to Live the only fact of getting them out of there, making them arrive in Italy, the Sikter and the theatrical group, the Sarajevo Festival Ensemble, was a company.

That evening, among other things, Vasco also sang his version of “General” by Francesco De Gregori, reinterpreting it in a rock key and as a bitter reflection against the violence of the war. Two years earlier, the Komandante had released the album “The shots above”, entitled as the homonymous rewriting of “celebrated” of the emotional fish, which he was revisited as a song against the powerful: “we were talking about the siege under which they were, beyond the Adriatic, but more generally we were talking about the siege under which we are also all of us. well -playing “.

On YouTube some fans have published over the years of the evenings, digitally pouring the VHS of the time:

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