When Lenny Kravitz met the Maneskin and the Greta Van Fleet
Young heroes on pilgrimage from an authentic divinity. The perfect caption to accompany the shot that immortalizes the meeting between Lenny Kravitz, the Greta Van Fleet and Thomas Raggi dei Maneskin, present as “ambassador” of the “last rock band”, as well as the New York Times in 2023 renamed the Roman group. The purists of the rock tear their clothes in front of the success of the Greta Van Fleet or that of the quartet of “shut up and good”? Such icon like the 61 -year -old New York artist does not do the same thing.
The photo of the meeting between Lenny Kravitz, the Greta Van Fleet and Thomas Raggi dei Maneskin, which took place last year in the backstage of the Belgian rock festival Rock Werchter, does not seem less surreal than in 2017 the item of “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” triggered together with the former exponent of the Christian democracy Clemente Mastella. Remember? The shot, which portrayed Mastella embraced by Kravitz, became viral: “With an American friend. You recognize who he is?”, He wrote the politician in the caption that accompanied the image, taken in Capri.
When Raggi and the Greta Van Fleet saw Kravitz wandering in the backstage of the rock youchter, where both the Roman band and the US one would have performed on the same day, they did not hesitate to approach the icon. The Rockstar accepted with the pleasure of posing together with young musicians. Not only that. By sharing the image on his official social channels, Lenny Kravitz gave his blessing to the two groups with an eloquent:
Rock and Roll is Not Dead (Rock and Roll is not dead).
The blessing, however, does not seem to have brought a lot of luck to the two groups. The Maneskin would have announced a permanent break shortly thereafter, with the group singer, Damiano David, willing to experiment in more pop territories (which he is doing with his solo project, who made his debut in May with the album “Funny Little Fears”). And in a limbo would also end the Greta Van Fleet, who in October would have announced a break at the end of their tour: the guitarist of the group, Jake Kiszka, is taking advantage of it to travel the world with a new band, the Mirador.
