Vasco Rossi, the background to the tribute to Pino Daniele
“A tribute to a friend of mine and a great artist,” he called it. And he said he wanted to write that song. He is Vasco Rossi, the song in question is “Je so’ Crazy” and the artist honored is naturally Pino Daniele. Last June, on the occasion of his concert at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in the Neapolitan city, the rocker from Zocca decided to perform in front of the spectators with a cover of the song that Pino Daniele recorded for the eponymous album in 1979. Now a clip tells the background of the tribute. In the true sense of the word. Among the various contents present in the photographic book “Vasco Live 2025”, whose pages feature QR codes which, if framed with a mobile phone, refer to a series of exclusive clips, there is also the moment before the start of the show in which Vasco calls together his band and in the press room of the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium – empty for the occasion – he puts on the cover of “Je so’ Crazy”. Vasco shared the clip on his official social channels:
Vasco never hid his artistic closeness to the late Neapolitan singer-songwriter. Recently, speaking about Pino Daniele, the rocker said: “Pino and I have a lot in common. We are both musically rebels, children of the Seventies who belonged to the committed singer-songwriters. We were the new in the music panorama, those of the turning point with the past. The word singer-songwriter wasn’t enough for us. We had our work cut out for us: I was making rock credible in Italian and he was revolutionizing the Neapolitan musical tradition by contaminating it with jazz and above all with blues, also claiming the fact of being the first. We had enough of political commitment. Our themes were more personal and/or socially related. We had many themes in common: marginalization, for example, which we had both experienced, for better or worse. By the way, there is a song of his that I really like, ‘Je so’ Crazy’.
