"Brumaire", the song betrayed and "Children" duped 
"It 'More Is My Song" sang Dalida and with greater enthusiasm the author Melanie Safka's "What Have They Done to My Song, Ma", but my mother was never very interested in my songs, so I could not cry on his shoulder. An evening of November 1986, forced by an illness that seemed to go on a long stay at my parents in Ostia, was the point of this strange insect that attacks sometimes more or less often artists (and I consider myself such) the so-called "inspiration", this song came out with the right intensity, it was my mood at that moment, dramatic, but the sadness in the music opened and evaporated and became the wind, sea, universe. From the music labored enough to put a text, I almost always written in Italian but this time only English seemed to be more suitable. The final version of the Italian text was very close to the end that I had suggested the idea that music, if I said that I would find familiar piece followed the tracks on the road to Black and Ming. However, out successfully (or almost) from the tunnel of the disease, I decided to come back to life retry the test paper of record. I had heard the song "First Tango" sung by Paola Turci Sanremo 87 and I thought that the authors of a song so beautiful could not stand indifferent to my creativity. The author was (along with Gaius Chiocchio and Mario Castelnuovo) Roberto Righini of the Sunflowers (s solo, sick world, Melinda, etc.).. His name appears in the memory of some old songs that had been part of my emotional world, so I decided, a little 'pimp, to direct a ... "tribute" reincidendo four songs and doors. What seems to have whetted and I took a second tape with some of my pieces on the second contact told me that he liked a song, but that would nell'inciso different view, "Ego exuberant" I said that we could meet and to bring my other pieces. I waited a good hour in the antechamber of the headquarters in the area It Ponte Milvio, and output a busty and massive blonde, then it was my turn. Righini appeared very cheerful and nice, clear eyes, stinging and crafty, he put me at ease and listened to my case with the songs that I quickly assembled the days prior to the audition. The first was just "Brumaire" which aroused his enthusiastic reviews, "the new Roxy Music, we must promote these pieces", etc.. etc.. I confess that, apart from the normal ability to delude themselves on occasions like this, are not at all a good manager, perhaps I may be able to be so for someone else, but it certainly was never for myself. From then on it began a painful series of phone calls with my answers like, "Who speaks? A moment (pause) ... No! "And needless to say I never saw more Righini. I managed to speak to him again three or four times, in which he mumbled a few variegated me everything / nothing, and in which I could not, however, to completely hide my embarrassment and my resentment. About a year later, I forget which was the pretext, I decided to send him to do solemnly c ***, writing to himself or to Micocci people who were not serious, that people were investing in short-term, and many other beautiful little things.
Two months after, and was the San Remo 89, I see in the Turk TV, and I say, well, song is a bit 'different, I feel a slight bump and some discomfort for the text that I found very pimp, performing with his guitar had already said in the letter Righini, and I found it quite ridiculous that since she was a singer without being a singer, was not a singer and maybe even knew how to play the guitar (I am not aware about its disk is among the performers). The next step
TV begins the piece, and feel like a slap, that chord was passing by my emotions and my experiences, shit, it was my song. Agreements themselves, a matter of my song on the violin and a guitar riff, the same ups and downs. I decided it could not end there and I made a big mess, and the song won the "Emerging". I prepared a letter and a study of the two scores together in all of which highlight the similarities, to take all the editorial offices of newspapers. The piece was shredded and emptied as, once prepared the grill, which had the exact same number of beats in two pieces, the round of agreements had been put back more or less the same with a lot of time, the melodic parts reversed imaginatively from my verse to its chorus, and my chorus to his verse, the notes of the melody used were the same as my song but move a bit 'here and a little' there. In this way no longer a question of plagiarism (for which you need eight bars seems to me the same) but only of an innocent family history, moreover, all music, some reporters told me, it is copied. By another strange coincidence, the titles of two songs beginning with B and have the same number of letters (Brumaire / children). A journalist interested in any talk of it, and eventually I felt a bit 'mythomaniac. One of them said to me, but something more. A "certain" FZ ex Flippers. Grazia Di Michele also had complained that a piece that was given to Turkey (Small Soldiers) had the same theme of "Children" so that the only substance that could have a song (for the text so touching) turned out to be frivolous and miserable. I also put in contact with Di Michele, being a lady, she was not interested to create an event. The last attempt I did was at the SIAE, and I entrusted my expertise / compare the two pieces to a master, who after a long time I said that, apart from a certain resemblance between the two songs, in his view there ' were the basis for legal action. However after a while, 'I realized that just was Micocci that time, I think, in the Board of SIAE (if it was not even the president), and then without realizing it was finished in the mouth of the wolf.
This post would have saved me if I had not read the magazine "Easy Listening", in a special full on It, the label Vincent Micocci, an article (which obviously I found very irritating) some of Mélisande Massei Autumn, who with his high-sounding name, has woven enthusiastic praise of Turkey and the song (the only real success, not even Vasco Rossi, or Cocciante Consoli came to giving their spare time), "Children," which is supposed to be called "horse" and instead Micocci son, decided to focus on clarity and simplicity of the message "change the title suggests, defines the" song-manifesto ". "Plea and catchy incisive yet refined, perhaps even to that beautiful phrasing of a violin is capable of making the song very recognizable (...)" tell me where the piece was recorded, who was the author of the text (because changed jobs and became a lawyer!), who was the study, and that the entries were recorded in the Cabinet, to improve the acoustics (this is really too ...), training the team of musicians in the room, etc.. etc.. And yet that record in Sanremo Paola sought to protect the poor from the snares of the world around to save money (poverina!!) A disappointment, so that when comes the news of the victory she was not waiting for anything and was at the restaurant, and scapicollò Ariston, his mouth still greasy to the replay of the piece. "Children made me a better person," said the Turk, and the song, "the sensitive content" (and so was born so noble, I say) has provided these and many opportunities "for discussion and meeting (...) travel, including Haiti and Vietnam (...) the humanitarian organizations that have chosen the song as the theme song" (such as charities, they knows?). And to think, concludes the clever and precise publicist, that Turkey had refused to sing "You Are The Universe" (and on the one hand, even if I say against me back, and thank goodness !!!), preferred, with great maturity , "focus on a repertoire of social protest rather than a song of love." Melisande good, very good job in the history of music, and especially for the truth. Some years later
the fact, my actor friend, GRL, was about 1993, I phoned to tell me that he had met the Turks in a kind of theater or film festival in Rimini, and receiving stopped telling the story of the theft of the songs, making it even more pathetic, that I had been ruined, after that experience that I had not done anything, and so on. etc.., which in the end it was not so far from reality. I know that she was very embarrassed, and put several questions on the issue and certainly had nothing to do much. In '90
Turci Sanremo then presented to another song, "I thank God," far piece, and without exaggeration, I however, think it's a joke of the unconscious of the author (again !!!), or my usual pathological mythomania, because the similarities with another piece that appealed to Righini, "Ego exuberant," there are. Dear
Melisande, the world is a little 'unscrupulous, and not all pink as you paint. And to be duped in the end it really were the poor children (at least instrumentally) of your beautiful song.
Postilla to 05/14/2009
I contacted via MySpace Melisande Massei Autumn, from which I received, and rightly so, some comments on my "excessive" lack of filters in the transpose his article. Ie (summarize) is: a) she has interviewed Turkey and "quotes" the news that the (ex) singer gave it b) she was not in a position to somehow doubt that what she was could have told some other truth behind: c) I'm so strange that she could not always be possible to acquire further information on the issue that came from me; d) that I have made the object of some derision, as if you share it fully the motivations of the interviewee, and) because I waited to talk about his article (but this really I explained that my actions were ignored by contemporary chroniclers of the time).
That said, I apologize to the person who was very nice, polite and helpful to worthy of his attention (despite the undoubted lack of respect in my post), and I hope that one day, maybe in another life ( Given my age ...) might appreciate me as an artist. Greetings dear MK
