Francesco De Gregori, the italian song-writer

FRANCESCO DE GREGORI has been, together De Andrè, Lucio Dalla and Venditti, one of most important Italian song-writers. Inspired by Leonard Coen and Bob Dylan, De Gregori starts to sing the guitar in the last years of '60's. He comes from a intellectual bourgeus' family, and was been his brother, that sings also him the guitar, to help Francesco to know others muisicians, with one of these, Venditti. Finally, in 1973 De Gregori makes his first album: "Alice non lo sa" , with a cryptic style, is the 1975 when pubblichs "Rimmel": is his first big success. Also for all '80's makes success, just for that moment, where pubblishes, that year, "Per brevità chiamato artista", where judges

negatives the '68's cultural revolution in Italy; where it during 10 years (!). The music style of De Gregori is similar to Bob Dylan's style, for the texts that thing is more complicated. De Gregori's sings sometimes talks about the history of Italy; sometimes about the society, sometimes our Icons, as the history of western, in America, or other times, the peace-loving songs. But the most part of his songs he wrote as poems, for that reason, I thing De Gregori, as De Andrè - that I prefer -, will be considerated as a poet , more than a song-writer.