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<p>After a summer spent traveling around Italy with his most famous hits, <strong>Max Pezzali</strong> arrives in prime time on Canale 5, with the concert film available tonight at 21:20 titled <em><strong>Circo Max - A Night of Hits</strong>.</em> This is the concert that Max Pezzali held in 2023 to close the 2022-2023 tour, celebrating his thirty years of career, bringing on stage the timeless successes of his discography, from <em>Hanno ucciso l'uomo ragno</em> to <em>Come mai.</em> Thanks to Mediaset, therefore, tonight even the singer's fans and the <strong>883</strong> who could not attend the live event will have the chance to experience a night of great music.</p>
<h2 id="toc_2362640_1">Circo Max - A Night of Hits: the event’s setlist</h2>
<p>Like all great concert films, <em>Circo Max - A Night of Hits</em> also has an official setlist, as reported by <a href="https://www.deejay.it/articoli/circo-max-pezzali-scaletta-concerto-canale-5/" data-ga4-click-event-target="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Radio Deejay</em></a>. The evening will open with the already mentioned <strong><em>Hanno ucciso l'uomo ragno</em></strong>, which marked the national success of the then 883. The setlist will also include other milestones such as <em>Sei un mito</em>, <em>Una canzone d'amore</em>, <em>Nessun rimpianto</em>, and <em>Come mai.</em> The most interesting aspect of this prime time concert on Canale 5 is that alongside Max Pezzali will be numerous guests, such as the Roman singer-songwriter <strong>Gazzelle</strong>, the <strong>Articolo 31</strong> who, just like Oasis, have reunited after a long period of separation, <strong>Dargen D'Amico</strong>, and <strong>Riccardo Zanotti</strong> of the Pinguini Tattici Nucleari. The guest list is also enriched by the presence of <strong>Paola e Chiara</strong>, who had collaborated with Max Pezzali at the beginning of their career as backing vocalists.</p>
<h2 id="toc_2362640_2">The story of Max Pezzali: from the streets of Pavia to the 883</h2>
<p><br/>Born Massimo Pezzali on November 14, 1967, Max Pezzali is undoubtedly one of the most recognized faces in Italian pop music, capable of singing stories so universal that they touch different generations, although his audience is mainly composed of listeners over thirty. His story, which will soon be brought to the small screen in a Sky TV series, actually begins with a <strong>failure</strong>. In his third year of high school, Max Pezzali is indeed held back and forced to repeat the year. What for many could represent a pit stop or, at least, a reason for shame, becomes an opportunity for Max Pezzali. Because in his second "attempt" to get out of the third year, he meets <strong>Mauro Repetto</strong> in the classroom, who, like him, is a great music enthusiast. And this latter topic will become the main discussion between the two boys, who seem to have less and less interest in school and more and more desire to break through with the songs they write together. They call themselves <strong>I Pop</strong> and try to achieve success through the program <em>1,2,3 Jovanotti.</em> A few years later, the two decide to change their name and rename themselves <strong>883</strong>, like the smallest engine size of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, of which Max Pezzali is a huge fan. The two then record the track <strong><em>Non me la menare</em></strong> and send it to producer <strong>Claudio Cecchetto</strong>. The song, which is the cry of a generation that does not want trouble but just wants to enjoy life and the little joys that come with it, opens the doors of the Castrocaro Festival for Max Pezzali and Mauro Repetto, which will in turn lead to the success of the album <em>Hanno ucciso l'uomo ragno</em>, released in 1992. From that moment on, the 883 do not stop: thanks to simple yet universal lyrics that manage to reach everyone without snobbery, and the beautiful tone of Max Pezzali's voice, the 883 become the symbol of a generation. These beginnings have since been partially fictionalized in the film <em>Jolly Blu</em>, which also features <strong>Jovanotti</strong> in a small but amusing cameo. The subsequent albums after their success, from <strong><em>Nord Sud Ovest Est</em></strong>, through <em>La dura legge del gol</em> and <em>La donna, il sogno e il grande incubo</em>, achieved dizzying figures, to the point where the advance of the 883 seemed unstoppable. The subsequent albums, <em>Grazie mille</em> from 1999 and <em>Uno in più</em> from 2001, however, seem to suggest a certain stylistic crisis, with still very beautiful songs, but in which the desire to tell stories that characterized Pezzali and Repetto's early works seems to be missing. These were the first signs of a very deep crisis that, in 2003, led to the band's breakup. For a long time, the reasons behind this choice remained so unknown that it even led to the spread of various urban legends - such as that of Mauro Repetto being hired as a "mascot" at Disneyland. Only recently have the two singers revealed the truth about what happened. In particular, Mauro Repetto, as reported by <a href="https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/spettacoli/1032243/Pezzali-e-Repetto-raccontano-perche-gli-883-si-separarono.html" data-ga4-click-event-target="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Libero</em></a>, explained in an interview that: <cite>"I wasn't up to the situation. Offstage we were 50-50, bringing this collaboration on stage was impossible, and then I, while Max was singing, jumped because I couldn't do anything else. When we reached Serie A, I didn't have the capacity nor, above all, the maturity. My extreme fragility opened the way to bad encounters. I surrounded myself with the wrong people, I went adrift."</cite></p>
<h2 id="toc_2362640_3">The rebirth of Max Pezzali and sold-out stadiums</h2>
<p>The abandonment of Mauro Repetto - who in the meantime had left for Miami in the hope of meeting a model he had fallen in love with from a photo in a magazine - leaves Max Pezzali without solid ground. <cite>"Without him, I didn't have fun making music,"</cite> he confessed in the same interview reported by <em>Libero.</em> However, in 2004 Max Pezzali decided to embark on a <strong>solo career</strong>, realizing he could not live without music. He released <em><strong>Il mondo insieme a te</strong></em> and with his two platinum discs, he proved to Max Pezzali that the public still loves his music and his songs. The following year, <em>TuttoMax</em> came out, a collection of some of the singer's solo tracks and the major hits of the 883: the success was immediate. The album remained in the Italian charts for weeks, becoming the soundtrack of that summer and bringing home four platinum discs. Throughout the 2000s - except for a hiatus from 2008 to 2010 - Max Pezzali continued to produce and record albums, collaborating with colleagues like Nek and J-Ax. Since 2021, tours in stadiums resumed: crowds flocked to hear Max Pezzali live, who has not stopped since then. In 2022, he reunited with Mauro Repetto for the shows in Bibione and Milan, just before starting the <em>Max30</em> tour in the arenas. In the summer of 2023, Max Pezzali celebrated his thirty years in the music industry with a tour culminating in the show on September 2 at the Circo Massimo in Rome. The concert - which is the one airing tonight on Canale 5 - becomes a celebration where Max Pezzali can celebrate his career with colleagues and friends. Not at all tired of his work, in 2024 Max Pezzali recorded the song <em>Discoteche Abbandonate</em>, before starting a new stadium tour, <em>Max Forever</em>, which has sold out almost everywhere. The singer has also just announced a winter tour titled <em>Max Forever - This forum is not a hotel</em>. And even in this case, it's heading towards a sellout. This demonstrates that the 883 separated more than twenty years ago, but their music is meant to last forever.</p>
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