"CARUSO"

With 40 million copies sold, it is one of the most famous Italian songs in the world.Written in 1986 in Sorrento at the "Excelsior" hotel, it draws its inspiration from the tenor Enrico Caruso, who stayed here many years earlier, in the very room that would see the symbol of the Bolognese singer-songwriter born. The song takes its cue from an account by the hotel's restaurateur, who described Caruso's story when, shortly before his death, he moved the piano onto the terrace of his room and began with his singing to bewitch the boatmen below, who, approaching with their lampas, created a glow similar, in Dalla's imagination, to the lights of New York City. This text is probably the first jet written by the maestro, which, between erasures and corrections, will give birth to the unforgettable "Caruso," so much so that in 1992 Lucio Dalla performed it as a duet with Modena maestro Luciano Pavarotti during Pavarotti and Friends. Lucio 1986.