Italo Disco: The sound of a summer that never ended

At the time of the Italo Disco, as we mentioned above, it could happen that some artists did not know how to sing. And so it often happened that the singer was not the artist on the cover image. “I don’t know who I am from the Flirts, the blonde, the brunette or the redhead, we have done many things”She recalls amused Linda Jo Rizzo, singer of the Flirts. “In the eighties the song first came out, then if it was successful the producer thought: who do we put on the cover? The original girls left the group, with the tour already organized, and were replaced“. In Italo Disco it was like this: on the record you needed the voice, on the cover and in the videos you needed a face, a body, a look. And so he was chosen. “It was a very common thing in Italo Disco”Reflects the German DJ Mathias Modica. “It became a big scandal only many years later in Germany with Milli Vanilli, when it became clear that they weren’t singing. They had to return the Grammy Awards. But no one remembered that this had started years ago“.

The typical example was precisely Den Harrow“Everyone knew that Tom Hooker he was the singer and Den Harrow was the image that went on stage and on television”Recalls Linda Jo Rizzo. “But it suited everyone“. Let’s not forget that Den Harrow, pronounced in Italian, becomes money. And this was also the goal of certain operations. The important thing, however, is that those faces paired with those songs worked: look, and listen, Don’t Break My Heart by Den Harrow. But that’s all Italo Disco. The sparkling sound of the 80s to be a dip into a past that we remember as an enchanted world. And so we listen to famous songs like The sweet life from Ryan Paris or Happy Children from P. Lion But also lesser known songs such as Cybenetic Love from Helmetto the century Salvatore Cusatoa piece that anticipates i Chemical Brothersi Daft Punkhouse music, or Don’t Cry from Savage.

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