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Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla · 1979 · Track 5
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The story behind
The first time you listen to Anna e Marco, you get the feeling that the song was written in one go, as if someone had scribbled on a piece of paper two lives that cross paths by chance in a place that is no palace. The two characters —she with her fixed idea that the future is worthless, he eager to escape anywhere— meet in a place that is nothing special, yet suddenly becomes the stage for a small victory: someone saw them return, hand in hand. The contrast between the pessimism of the lyrics and that final image of complicity is what keeps the song from sounding like a cheap moral lesson, instead feeling like a real moment where two people decide, against all odds, to carry on.
The story behind Anna e Marco is as curious as the result. The song was originally meant to be called Sera and even had its music recorded, but producer Alessandro Colombini and Lucio Dalla gave the lyrics a twist in a single studio session, just before the album was finalized. Enrico Ruggeri revealed in 2019 that, instead, the lyrics were born after much effort at the Carimate castle, where Dalla locked himself away until the words fit the melody. Recorded at the Stone Castle Studios in the same town, the song ended up on the 1979 album Lucio Dalla, a record that, alongside Come è profondo il mare and Dalla, marks the period when the Bolognese singer-songwriter moved away from collaborations with Roberto Roversi to find his own voice. And though they weren’t aiming for mass appeal, Anna e Marco ended up being one of the most remembered tracks in his repertoire, even inspiring Cesare Cremonini years later to write Io e Anna as a tribute.