Fabrizio de André - Andrea - English Translation

Andrea, (part of the album "Rimini", published in 1978) is a revolutionary song in the history of Italian music, since it portrays a deep, undefeatable and overwhelming love between two men. Two Italian farmers in the early 20th century.
This is probably the first (and if not the last, among the only ones, especially written by heterosexual songwriters) Italian classics that talks so gently about homosexual love.
(To help putting the time in history into context, Divorce had become legal, not controversies-free, only 4 years earlier than 1978).

During a concert at the "Teatro Smeraldo di Milano, the 19th of December 1992, he said as follows about the song:
"Questa canzone la dedichiamo a quelli che Platone chiamava, in modo addirittura poetico, i "figli della luna"; quelle persone che noi continuiamo a chiamare gay oppure, per una strana forma di compiacimento, diversi, se non addirittura culi. Ecco, mi fa piacere cantare questa canzone, che per altro è stata scritta per loro una dozzina di anni fa, così a luci accese, anche a dimostrare che oggi, almeno in Europa, si può essere semplicemente se stessi senza più bisogno di vergognarsene."

Meaning: "
We dedicate this song to those Plato called, in a poetic way, moon children: those people we keep calling gay, or, for a strange ego-boosting reason, "different", or even "queers".
Well... it's a pleasure for me to sing this song with lights on, a song written a long time ago for a story of theirs, to prove that today, at least in Europe, we can be ourselves again without having to hide or feel ashamed."
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