Il giorno aveva cinque teste

When Lucio Dalla released Il giorno aveva cinque teste in April 1973, it marked a turning point in his musical journey. This album, the fourth of his career, signified the beginning of a fruitful creative partnership with the poet Roberto Roversi. Together, and in the works that followed, they laid important foundations not only for Dalla's discography but also for Italian song. This record is distinguished by a sonic exploration that moved away from his previous collaborations. Dalla decided to change direction, leaving behind lyricists Sergio Bardotti and Gianfranco Baldazzi, who had been his co-authors until then.

Year: 1973
Songs: 10
Duration: 37 min 23 seg

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11 song|s

Song list

# Title Available ⏱

Canzone

Guitar · Guitar

L'auto targata TO

Guitar · Intermediate

4:29 00

Alla fermata del tram

Guitar · Intermediate

3:59

E lì

4:31

Passato, presente

Guitar · Intermediate

4:32

L'operaio Gerolamo

3:34

Il coyote

Guitar

4:35 00

Grippaggio

Guitar · Intermediate

4:07

La bambina (L'inverno è neve, l'estate è sole)

3:00

Pezzo zero

2:58

La canzone di Orlando

Guitar · Easy

1:38

Genres

singer-songwriter Pop Blues Jazz Rock

Details

Year: 1973
Songs: 10
Duration: 37 min 23 seg

About the album

Il giorno aveva cinque teste, according to DoReSol

Instead, he enlisted Roversi, initiating a collaboration that would extend over four years and three albums. In Il giorno aveva cinque teste, the lyrics address social themes with acuity. We hear about emigration in Un'auto targata «TO», a piece submitted for the 1973 Sanremo Festival but not admitted. Labor difficulties are also touched upon in L'operaio Gerolamo, while Il coyote offers a fable about imagination. In La bambina, Lucio Dalla himself delivers a remarkable saxophone solo. The only track where Dalla works without Roversi's lyrics is Pezzo zero, a piece vocalized in scat. The album's production was handled by Roberto Formentini, with orchestral arrangements by maestro Ruggero Cini.

The cover art, a symbolic design representing the union of eras and genres, did not detail the names of all the musicians involved, with the exception of Toto Torquati on keyboards. Curiously, the song La canzone di Orlando was performed live years later, in 1979, with Francesco De Gregori during the Banana Republic tour, and was recorded on the album derived from those concerts. An interesting sonic detail can be found at the beginning of Un'auto targata «TO», which quotes the introduction of La storia di Maddalena, a song by Ron from 1971, recorded by Sophia Loren for the soundtrack of the film La mortadella.