When Oliviero Toscani rejected David Bowie for Drupi

When Oliviero Toscani rejected David Bowie for Drupi

ByJohn

The photographer Oliviero Toscani, who passed away on January 13th at the age of 82, was very closely involved with the world of music. As we told you hereToscani had the opportunity to photograph rock stars such as Patti Smith, Mick Jagger, Lou Reedbut also ours Gianna Nannini And Maneskin.

Oliviero Toscani he also shot music videos like the one for the song by Enrico Ruggeri And Andrea Miro “Nobody touch Cain” with which the two musicians participated in the Sanremo festival in 2003, obtaining fourth place in the final ranking.

Or that of “Pig”song published by Drupi in 1993 included in the album “Love stories”. The 77-year-old musician from Pavia, sorry for his death, remembered him in a message on his Instagram channel in which he defined Toscani as ‘an incredible character, incredible to the point that having to make a video clip for one of my songs he refused to go to London to shoot a clip with David Bowie’.

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