Rome, San Giovanni square, May the 1st 1991, Labour Day. 1
Something crazy is about to happen. 2
"Scechene uoc yu du" 3
The maternity issue is already been fully examined
Discussed and analysed 4
Ok, it's all under control
This is a song about love
It's a song which lasts twelve hours, so it lasts even less 5
Actually this is a diversion for the RAI functionary 6
However, we're in a good company 7
Because even Andreotti has been tried by the inquisitional Court
On a charge of diversion concerning the Borghese coup attempt 8
The case has later been dismissed, along with other 410 on 411
And the only losers who hasn't been dismissed
Are Gui and Tanassi for the Lockheed case 9
But after all Tanassi was the secretary of the Socialdemocratic party
And Pietro Longo too, who was part of the P2 10
And after him Nicolazzi, who's been inquired for the "golden jail" affair 11
But all of these charges has been dismissed, has been dismissed
In the name of love
Just like other 409 cases on 411
Like the colza oil affair of minister Remo Gaspari 12
Just like the Iraqi weapon affair 13
In which even the current RAI president, Manca, was involved
Just think that when he was Minister he's been involved in this case
But then the case has been dismissed, but, why?
All Italians are asking themselves "why?"
Evidently, Italians are not stupid
If every year they elect these men it's because they understand
That they do it in the name of the nation
And in the name of love
So, on the occasion of the Labour Day, I say
We're not going to sing the usual, outdated protest chants
But rather a song about love for these men
Who fought to let us be here today
Singing freely
So I'm asking you to shout "I love you"
I love you, for example, Andreotti
Let's all sing "I love you, Andreotti"
I love you, I love you, yes I love you
I love you Cossiga, I love you, yes, Cossiga 14
I love you Nicolazzi, I love you, I love you, Nicolazzi
I love you, I love you Remo Gaspari, I love you Remo Gaspari
Who landed his helicopter in the city stadium 15
(Which he himself wanted to build)
And he interrupted a football match
To land the helicopter
And the crowd cheered him instead of booing
Because they understood he's doing their interests
So let's shout "I love you", and I'll say more
Let's shout "I love you" for Ciarrapico 16
The current Roma president 17
Something that can't be understood
He used to sell fish
He's got a criminal record this long
Then he met Andreotti
He's become the king of mineral water
He's got a 39 millions loan from Calvi 18
To buy Fiuggi
And now he's on everybody's lips
And he made peace between Berlusconi and De Benedetti 19
So let's shout "I love you, I love you Ciarrapico"
I love you for what you've done
I love you for the bad checks
I love you for the publication...for the porn magazines 20
This is love, I mean, he's given love to us
And we'll give love to him
Let's all shout "I love you Ciarrapico"
One, two, three, four
I love you, I love you Ciarrapico, I love you Ciarrapico
What do you mean "no"? C'mon!
All together, "I love you, I love you"
I love you, I love you, yes I love you...
[Vincenzo Mollica:21 so, I'm trying to understand...we're switching from channel 2 to channel 3? All right. So, while they're playin-...no, not yet? All right, so, we can start right away with Ricky Gianco. 22 Ricky, sorry, while Elio e le Storie Tese are playing, let's try and do...do this interview. So, in the past, your most famous song is "Ora sei rimasta sola" 23 which is a rock, which is a slow, a slow dance, but actually you're famous for...] 24
Just like Jim Morrison! 25
1. since 1990, every Labour Day the three Italian National trade union centers organise a live concert in San Giovanni square in Rome, broadcasted on the Italian national TV (RAI) to celebrate Labour Day. The concert usually starts at 3 p.m. and lasts until late night, hence its nickname "concertone" ("big concert"). The guest musicians and bands are both Italian and international (Iron Maiden, Robert Plant, Jon Bon Jovi, Oasis...), but a large part of the artists (especially in the earlier hours) are from the indie scene, with lyrics often ispired by counterculture or leftist ideology.2. according to the official playlist, the band was supposed to play one of their song, about abortion, called "Cassonetto differenziato". They start to sing it, but then they switch to another song, with lyrics denouncing a number of scandals involving the then Italian Prime Minister (Giulio Andreotti) and other political figures. They are soon censored by the national TV, especially because another group (called The Gang) had previously done the same thing, singing another denouncing song against Andreotti instead of the scheduled one. This song will be included in their 1998 album "Peerla", with the title "Sabbiature", a pun on the verb "insabbiare", which both means "to do a sand bath" and "to cover up a scandal". Most of the politics quoted in the song will be subsequently convicted with various charges. Only Giulio Andreotti will eventually die "innocent" (he has been found guilty of criminal association, but the charge was extinguished by statute of limitations).3. nonsense lyrics, just to imitate the stereotype of the English/American rockstar.4. lyrics from another song of the group, called "Cassonetto differenziato" (see the 2nd note).5. the music played by the group comes from another song, called "Ti amo" ("I love you"), sung with improvised lyrics in various occasions. One time, they sang it for twelve hours straight. In 1998 they sang another version of this song, this time denouncing the many suspicious events occurred during the Italian football league (Serie A), which lead to Juventus' victory.6. see the 2nd note.7. i.e. in using diversions.8. an attempted coup against the Italian democracy, lead by Junio Valerio Borghese, a former fascist official. Planned in the night between December 7th and 8th 1970, it involved kidnapping the Italian President, killing the head of the police and occupying a number of key buildings in Rome and Milan. It had the support of many fascist organization, the mafia, the P2 masonic lodge, a number of extremists from the army and the police force and a few members of the CIA. The coup was suspended by Borghese himself during the night, before any action could take place, and he later fled to Spain, where he died four years later. Three trials were started against the plotters, but all ended without convictions, with many evidences destroyed (allegedly even by Andreotti himself) and other scandals condemned by the public opinion.9. in 1976, the Lockheed Corporation confessed the bribery of many politics in the Netherlands, Italy, West Germany and Japan, in order to sell their aircrafts. The scandal in Italy, involved many politicians. Among them the then President of the Republic, Giovanni Leone, resigned, even though his name has been later cleared.10. the P2 was an Italian deviated masonic lodge, implicated in a number of crimes (financial scandals, murders, ultra-right terrorism etc). Many politicians were affiliated to it (among them, the socialist minister Pietro Longo and Silvio Berlusconi). After a Parlamentary inquiry, a law was issued in 1982 against secret lodges, containing an article which explicitly disbanded the P2.11. The "golden jail" affair was part of the bigger bribery scandal called "Tangentopoli", investigated in the 1990s with the operation "Mani pulite". It was called "golden jail" in relation to the bribes paid for the building of new prisons in Italy.12. colza oil naturally cointains the erucic acid, dangerous for health. In response to this discovery,in 1972 the Italian minister of Health, Remo Gaspari, had imposed a maximum of 10% of that acid in commercialised colza oil. In 1974 (with Gui as minister of Health), he then proposed in Parliament to repeal his own law, apparently in order to protect a certain company who had been accused of selling colza oil with an enormous amount of erucic acid.13. the Atlanta branch of the Italian bank BNL had allegedly lent more than 2 billions dollar to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.14. President of the Italian Republic from 1985 to 1992. He was part of the NATO stay-behind organization called "Gladio", allegedly involved in various crimes and terrorit actions in response to the "communist threat" during the Cold War.15. it looks like senator Gaspari he didn't actually landed in a stadium during a football match, but he did use helicopter of the Civil Protection or the Firefighters to go see a football match, or for other personal, mundane needs.16. Giuseppe Ciarrapico, Italian businessman, owner of many big companies (water plants, newspapers, airlines, restaurants, private hospitals etc.). He has been accused and arrested many times for financial scandals.17. i.e. president of the A.S. Roma football team, from 1991 to 1993 (when he was arrested for bankruptcy fraud).18. Roberto Calvi, Italian banker and member of the secret masonic lodge P2 (see above) accused of financial crimes in 1980. In 1982 he was found dead, hanging from the Blackfriars bridge in London. Ruled as suicide at first, it was later confirmed he was murdered, by the Mafia or by the P2 lodge (or both) in order to prevent him from revealing information to the Police, or from trying to blackmail members of those organizations.19. Silvio Berlusconi and Carlo De Benedetti, in the late 1980s, had the majority of the shares of Arnoldo Mondadori publishing company. They relied on an arbitrament in order to sort out who'd be the president, but later (some four years after this song) Berlusconi was accused of having bribed the judges.20. Ciarrapico was president of a number of publishing companies, including one that printed porn magazines.21. Italian journalist and host of this edition of the Labour Day Concert.22. Italian singer, one of the "founding fathers" of Italian rock'n'roll.23. the actual title is "Sei rimasta sola" ("You've been left alone").24. this intrusion was made in order to censor the rest of the song, who was being broadcasted, along with the rest of the concert, on the Italian national TV. A nonsensical remix has been included in the album release of this song.25. a bit of song that could still be heard during the "fake" interview used to censor it.