Francesco De Gregori: Rai airs the documentary "Jeans concerto", on the legendary show with Lucio Dalla at Rome's Stadio Flaminio

To mark the 75th birthday of Francesco De Gregori (April 4, 1951), on Friday April 3 at 7.30pm Rai Cultura will re-air the "Jeans concerto" on Rai Storia, introduced by music journalist Michel Pergolani. It's the concert De Gregori performed together with Lucio Dalla on July 8, 1978 at Rome's Stadio Flaminio: a show that drew forty thousand people for their Rome date. The two took turns on stage, performing their songs.

The Roman singer-songwriter had just released his self-titled album "De Gregori" and played a concert at the Stadio Flaminio organized by the Fgci, perhaps also to make peace with the left after the “trial” he endured at the Palalido two years earlier. No one could have imagined, however, that it would also mark the first seed of his collaboration with Lucio Dalla.

Curiously, from that point on the two only worked together in the studio on “Ma come fanno i marinai”, preferring instead to share the stage. The Banana Republic tour sold out a year after that concert, and the live album drawn from it sold half a million copies.

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