Even Italian author music manages to ‘Fly’ in Bob Dylan’s choices of the most beautiful songs from all over the world and of all times, included in his’ Philosophy of modern song ‘, among which appears precisely’ In the blue painted by blue ‘by Domenico Modugno. The volume is out today in the US and on November 8 also in Italy.
“Presumably – writes Dylan about the text of the Italian song, one of the most famous in the world, as the ‘Messaggero’ reports today – it speaks of a man who wants to paint himself blue and then fly away. ‘Volare’ means this: ‘We fly away into the infinite sky’. The whole world can also disappear, I am in my head ‘”.
Other tracks chosen by Bob Dylan – ranging from Stephen Foster’s 1849 ‘Nelly was a lady’ to Warren Zevon’s 2003 ‘Dirty life and times’ – include Frank Sinatra’s’ Strangers in the night’, ‘My generation ‘by the Who,’ I got a woman ‘by Ray Charles,’ Tutti frutti ‘by Little Richard,’ Pump it up ‘by Elvis Costello,’ Do you want to know a secret ‘by The Beatles.