Bocca di Rosa, Andrea Podesta (Zone)
got off the train at St. Hilary And it was the revolution Arpeggio guitar, keyboards, cymbals, low. Then, when everything seems to break out, everything stops. Stuff a few seconds, just enough to feel his presence: I am, you hear me? Do you feel my heart? ... Three beats. Then his voice (him or her?): "They called Bocca di rosa ...." It 'really existed Bocca di rosa? Why is this woman who "put love above all things" has become a symbol, almost an icon? History and stories of success since 1967 does not set. "Bocca di rosa. He got off the train at St. Hilary and was the revolution" by Andrea Podesta takes us on the trail of the woman who "made love with passion" (or out of boredom or profession ...) become - despite himself - a sort of "muse of the street," whose name is now mentioned in error as a synonym for elegant "prostitute." A song that has more than forty years but does not show "Bocca di rosa" is in fact born in 1967, also in Italy when the sexual revolution that exploded that would forever change our customs. The book contains - among others - the testimony of the Genoese singer-songwriter Max Manfredi, Aldo Leporati (Site Editor santilarionline.it) Claudio Sassi (autore con Michele Neri e Franco Settimo di "Fabrizio De André. Discografia illustrata"), Alfredo Franchini (autore del volume "Uomini e donne di Fabrizio De André), del regista Riccardo Marchesini (autore nel 2002 del mediometraggio "Bocca di rosa") e dell'attrice Claudia Zanella, che ha interpretato nel 2008 il personaggio di Maritza-Bocca di rosa nel film "Amore che vieni amore che vai" di Daniele Costantini, tratto dal romanzo di Fabrizio De André "Un destino ridicolo".
