One more analog of Vysotsky

[John Dunn]

In order not to reveal the superficiality of my knowledge, I took great care not to name the Italians, though I had been wondering about De André and also Giorgio Gaber.  The name that had first come to mind, however, was that of Lucio Dalla, not least because of the astonishing (to me, as an ignorant foreigner) reaction that there was to his death a couple of years ago. 

John Dunn.
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Indeed, I find most of the anglo-saxon equivalents rather strange. Would be curious to know the Italian analogs you were thinking of- I immediately thought of De Andre'- although I could imagine a few objections   (Brassens would surely be a good French equivalent in some way). Interestingly, Aleksander Galich was at one point planning to sing some De Andre' songs (translated into Russia) - the story was briefly recounted by Gian Piero Piretti in Marco Raffaini's documentary film 'Italiani veri'  - on the influence on Italian popular music in Russia.

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