Vasco Rossi: the first previews of the 2025 tour lineup
New year, new tour and new setlist for Vasco Rossi It’s already time for rumors about the songs that the rocker from Zocca will perform live during the concerts of his new tour, “Vasco Live 2025”.
The tour will start with the double on May 31st and June 1st from the Olympic Stadium in Turin and for the entire month of June will see the voice of “Vita spericolata” perform live in the stadiums and arenas of Florence (5 and 6 June, Visarno Arena), Bologna (11 and 12 June, Dall’Ara Stadium), Naples (16 and 17 June, Diego Armando Maradona Stadium), Messina (21 and 22 June, San Filippo Stadium) and Rome (27 and 28 June, Olympic Stadium). As per tradition, the setlist will be totally different from that of last year’s tour: after all, Vasco likes to change from year to year, also letting current events inspire him in the choice of songs. And very current, he promises, it will also be the opening song of the 2025 tour.
Through a clip shared on Instagram directly from the ODS Studio in Bologna, where together with his collaborators, starting with guitarist Vince Pastano, he is finalizing the details of the songs, the rocker made it known that he has already prepared the song that will represent opening titles of the concerts, anticipating: “I tried to sing a very interesting song with a new arrangement which will also be very significant for this historical period”.
And it’s already a complete lineup. The opening songs are always particularly important in Vasco’s concert setlists: they embody the mood that characterizes the show in general and the messages that the rocker somehow wants to convey through the show itself. Last year’s concerts opened with “‘Blasco’ Rossi”, a piece taken from the 1987 album “C’è chi dice no” inspired by the theme of marginalization and exclusion: “the Blasco gang” represented a minority forced to suffer the judgments of moralists and respectable people. Moreover, Vasco had promised that the lineup would be “social”, as opposed to that of 2023 which was instead “more intimate” and focused on the “relationship between man and woman”, with an opening dedicated to “Tell the Moon” .
There will certainly be no shortage of classics in the setlist such as the inevitable “Vita spericolata”, “Sono solo noi”, “Albachiara”, “Gli ordini sopra”, “Canzone”, “Sally”. This year, moreover, marks the fortieth anniversary of the release of one of the most iconic albums of Vasco’s career, that “What happens in the city” which he recorded after his arrest in 1984 for possession of cocaine and the 22 days spent in prison. The song that gave the album its title has been missing from the singer-songwriter’s concert setlists since 2019. But the album also included much-loved pieces from his repertoire such as “Toffee” and “T’immagini”, which also found space in the setlists. in recent times (he played both on the 2022 tour). Others, however, have not appeared in the setlists of the rocker’s shows for a long time, as in the case of “Cosa c’è”, the song that opened the album: the last time Vasco performed it live was in 2007, eighteen years ago.
