Italian
1983, a summer certainly hot and characterized by some events that still evoke suggestions and intense emotions today
Certainly, it does not go unnoticed even today, when rewinding the tape we revisit that summer, extremely hot and marked by record temperatures, even in Europe. With news events destined to change the history of our country, at least from the perspective of historical consciousness. Above all, the dramatic arrest of Enzo Tortora, detained on June 17 on the very serious charge of mafia association, based on false statements from informants. When the full acquittal for Tortora arrived, an honest and upright man, it was not enough, and he saw death in 1988, a victim of that infamous accusation that provoked outrage and disbelief. But on June 22, 1983, another event will mark collective memory, the kidnapping of Emanuela Orlandi, a fifteen-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, opening an enigma capable of tearing Italy apart and beyond, with cover-ups, assumptions, and intrigues that have never led to taking the right path. In politics, the big news is the first socialist-led government that sees the rise of Bettino Craxi. But there is no summer without music, and that of 1983 was certainly the season of hits, with the Righeira brothers’ song, Vamos a la Playa, characterizing a summer that could include in its personal playlist people like Vasco Rossi, with his splendid Bollicine, Gazebo with I like Chopin, and Tropicana by Gruppo Italiano. Among unmissable hits and carefree records, Italo Disco will also be born, a movement that winks at disco music but is of Italian origin, and the Stylóo, a group founded by Rino Facchinetti, with Alberto Signorini and Tullio Colombo, will gift us a gem titled Pretty Face, capable of becoming iconic, released in 20 countries worldwide with 400,000 copies sold. But the long summer of 1983 is also capable of giving us Cuore di Panna and the flight, the authentic pathway to hedonism that will characterize this unique decade, slowly distancing itself from the seventies. A condition not exactly simple given the complexity of the period, with the peninsula, emerging from the years of lead and the nightmare of terrorism, not only carrying a desire for redemption but also all that hemisphere of creative passion that will find the fleeting moment to materialize.
