Vasco, “The essentials”: the playlist of a (reckless) life
When there are just over six months left until the return of the king of Italian rock to the stages, scheduled for May 30, 2026 at the Romeo Neri Stadium in Rimini, which will host the zero date of the “Vasco Live 2026” tour, the anticipation is already growing to see Vasco Rossi in action together with his gang. The live album “Vasco Live 2025: The essentials” tempers it, reliving the emotions of Vasco Rossi’s last tour, the one which saw him perform in the main Italian stadiums last summer. The box set was released today in double CD, triple vinyl (numbered) and digital formats (it can be purchased on the official Universal Music Italia website). It contains 21 songs in total, for a total of 99 minutes of music. The songs have been extrapolated from the official setlist and are those that the voice of “Vita spericolata” defines as “essential”: that is, those indispensable to enhance the concept of this year’s concert, the celebration of life. “Vita spericolata” opened the show: “If we want to celebrate life, what better opening song than ‘Vita spericolata’? All the songs that come later in the setlist had to be connected. All my songs are polaroids of life, of certain sensations we feel. At a certain point I understood that we are a life, a reckless life”, says Vasco. Below you can listen to it playlist complete by clicking on “play”.
“In the face of a world full of hatred, violence, overturned values and darkness, we celebrate life. ‘Reckless life’ was not understood by right-thinking people at the time: it doesn’t talk about self-destruction, but about the desire to live intensely and take risks for this“, Vasco Rossi said last June, on the eve of the debut of the tour from which the live album is based. And again: “Every song in this concert is a photograph of a life lived, stubborn, complicated. In a word, a reckless life, in search of meaning. Every search is always reckless.” All the songs revolve around the concept of life: “I am innocent”, “Futurist Manifesto”, “Valium”, up to the jewel “Vivere” of 1993.
The album is the thirteenth live album released by Vasco during his career. The first was, in 1984, “Okay, That’s Okay”, followed in 1990 by “Front of the Stage”. At the beginning of the year “Vasco Live Milano San Siro” was released, documentation of the seven consecutive dates held at the San Siro Stadium in Milan in June last year.
