Tales of life and career of a Righeira: from the old successes to the new single
He has never been a workaholic and hates the haste Johnson Righeira: «I have not always said my dream. And in fact, with the exception of very short periods, my activity has never been frantic. Now I live in the countryside in the Canavese and I have achieved the goal of fully living slowness and following the rhythms of nature. I produce a couple of wines: a kutu white, and a red filiberta, a very sabaudo term, but which in the Slang of the Turin Mala of the early twentieth century indicated the female sex “says a few days after the publication of A new song that is also a manifesto of his lifestyle: whoever works does not make lovealmost an answer, 54 years later, to those who do not work does not make the love of Adriano Celentano, with that controversial verse (“angry she shouts me that I went on strike two days out of three. With the money that I do not do it anymore and has decided that she makes the strike against me”) who indignant the trade union leaders of the time. «In times of worker struggles that piece was considered a anthem to crumbraggio. I do not invite to strike, but to ensure that the work does not take over on private life and free time ».
One of the most fascinating and mysterious aspects of pop music is the space -time trajectory of the songs: many, especially the lightest, appear and vanish without tracing, others, equally light and carefree, cross the decades, definitively enter the imagination of those who listen to them and radically transform the life and the standard of living of those who sing them. As Vamos in La Playa, no I keep Dinero, summer is ending. All eighties, all signed Righeira.
“The timeless success of these songs helped me a lot from an economic point of view» explains Johnson. «I lived the eighties and those immediately following in the role of the cicala. I have never been anthill. I wretched everything I earned in real time and without even investing in villas and jewels. It doesn’t take much to the bottom, just raise the level of expenses without control: only taxis, only restaurants, only aircraft and luxury hotels. Today’s young stars buy cars of two hundred thousand euros, instead I spent everything without ever showing off anything. At the time, among other things, I could not imagine that those songs would support me until today, also because often criticism crushed them without appeal. And I pissed much tremendously when I read negative reviews, “he says. “Vamos in La Playa has been overwhelmed, engulfed by his own incredible success. Beyond the refrain, it was never taken into consideration anything else: in reality it was a piece of the times of the times, born in the climate of the Cold War and the nuclear nightmare. The basic scenario was that of a post atomic beach, “he explains.
«Now that decades have passed can be said that The Righeira were a unique case, a shameless blender of situation, futurism and post -sounds punk, with an aesthetic that went from the ties of Memphis (in silk, characterized by geometric motifs and bold colors, designed in the eighties From the Memphis Milano Design group) to fluorescent colors “he underlines before immersing himself in memories” I was a situationist already in high school. For the first student elections I provocatively I created the banana list and the day before the vote I distributed twenty -seven kilos of bananas at the entrance of the school. I also got a seat and ended up in the newspapers ».
Living on the wave of the evergreen or an infinite revival is pleasant but in Johnson Righeira there is still the temptation of another step in the top ten, of another “classic” to be delivered to posterity. «If it weren’t so I would not continue to make music. I have never taken those who say with superiority “I make music for me and I don’t care for so much to sell on the air”. But they went ac … Nobody believes it. I, to say it all, do not want to return to the top ten places in the ranking but to number one!». Alone or with the accomplice of the golden years, Michael Righeira? After all, in recent weeks Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis have returned to play together, known as the pop brothers of the pop knives: «Things happen when the right conditions are created. To date, these conditions are not there. Among us there is no clash, only that once we were a unique entity, now there is no common planning “.
