Oggi il cantautore e musicista Peter Hammill compie 73 anni. Per celebrarlo, vi posto il brano “Alfa Berlina” dei Van Der Graaf Generator, con testo e video.
Auguri Peter.
Peter Hammill è sicuramente uno dei cantanti più versatili e talentuosi del rock.
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill, è nato a Ealing (UK) il 5 novembre 1948.
Cofondatore dei Van Der Graaf Generator, Hammill è uno dei simboli della sperimentazione e della musica progressive.
Forse poco noti ai più, i Van Der Graaf sono stati uno dei più importanti gruppi della storia del rock progressive, anche se per il loro stile ed i loro testi sono considerati tra i precursori del punk.
In Italia, Peter Hammill ha collaborato con Alice, PFM e Le Orme.
La canzone Alfa Berlina è estratta dall’album Do Not Disturb del 2016.
Testo : Van Der Graaf Generator – Alfa Berlina
In the fullness of time, when it’s all waxed and waned
All the strangeness explained, all the stories discrete.
Maybe then it’ll all be clear.
I’ve got a Iifetime’s library of unreliable mementoes
And I could show you one or two
If it’s of interest, it’d be an education
For me to simply talk you through
How I wore my innocence as some kind of novelty
As if I didn’t know
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Lay the fire down below.
All sense of caution was abandoned in the moment,
Our eagerness to claim the day.
The dice we rolled would take us anywhere
And there were no excuses left to stay.
This was the time, this was the chance to go
And do it in some style.
Just turn your face up to the summer sun
And drive a thousand miles
In an Alfa Berlina.
I saw a wolf high on the mountain pass,
The stars were tumbling end to end.
I knew I’d never feel as free as this again.
The sea below us like a looking-glass,
We drifted through the hair-pin bends
In the Alfa Berlina.
So very long ago, so far away,
It’s all time out of mind
But when I think about the way it was
We were recklessly alive
In the Alfa Berlina.
In the fullness of time I can look back and say
I first fell on my feet
In the Alfa.
Video Youtube : Van Der Graaf Generator – Alfa Berlina
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