In the mid-70s in Italy there was committed music and commercial music. The two categories were waterproof, first of all in the minds of the boys. Inside committed music there were naturally singer-songwriters and pre-punk and pre-new wave rock music, in its most widespread articulations in Italy in the post-Beatles period, i.e. progressive, hard-rock (at the time it was called that which would later assumed the name of heavy metal) and west coast. Disco music was the quintessential commercial music. Dance music eluded reasoning, excluded the categories of right and wrong, made the body move before the head. Criticized by right-thinking politically engaged, for us sixteen-year-olds of the time it was the maximum escape, the absolute freedom to express what we felt... and it still is!!! Long live Disco!
