Stadio drummer and founder dies at the age of 70 John Pezzoli. The stadium itself announced the news on its official Facebook page. “Our minds and our hearts are full of pain – is the message – we want to remember him with his smile and the desire to make music to entertain us and you. Bye Giovanni.”
(Griff) Pezzoli was born in Bologna on May 14, 1952 and discovered his passion for music at an early age. As a child, he had built a homemade battery using barrels of detergent and a knitting needle. He started playing when he was 13. He makes his debut in a band with Gli indecisi. Then a long collaboration begins Lucio Dellawhich will last until 1992. In 1981 he brought Stadio to life with Gaetano Curreri (the two had met 4 years before), also with the help of Of the and Ron.
On the night of March 24-25, 2016, he was attacked by a serious illness which will shape the rest of his life, including his professional life: a few weeks after his victory at the Sanremo Festival with the song “Un giorno mi dirai” and the start of the “Miss Nostalgia Tour”, he was on vacation in the mountains’. Precisely to play this song, Pezzoli returns to the stage for the first time the following August, at the Arena della Regina in Cattolica (Rimini): a return of a few minutes with the Stadio, introduced and accompanied by an excited and moved Curreri from a’ ovation. Meanwhile, he had been replaced live by Zucchero collaborator Adriano Molinari, then by Iarin Munari.
Pezzoli was there in June last year hospitalized for investigations. A month ago, on November 27th, a post attributed to the artist appeared on the FB page of ‘Giovanni Pezzoli Friends’ and had worried fans: “Giovanni is not doing well. At the moment, out of respect for do not add anything more to him and his family.We only ask that you be patient and think of Gio with every possible positive attitude, whom we hope will help him.These are difficult moments, please do not insist, after information. Thank you from the bottom of my heart”.
And again: “In this moment, more than ever, Gio needs our positive energies, of everything that can generate your affection, concrete and useful in the fight he is fighting.” On December 7, an improvement was reported: “During the fight, it is not important to win or lose, but to fight, and our Gio is a great fighter!”. Today, on the same page, this last message.
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