Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo

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Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo
Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo cover
Studio album by Fabrizio De André
Released 1971
Recorded 1971
Genre Italian singer-songwriters
Length 31:15
Label Produttori Associati
Ricordi
BMG
Producer Roberto Dané
Sergio Bardotti
Fabrizio De André chronology
La buona novella
(1970)		 Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo
(1971)		 Storia di un impiegato
(1971)

Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo ("Neither to gold, nor to love, nor to heaven") is the title of an album released by Fabrizio De André. It was issued in 1971 by Produttori Associati and reissued several times by Ricordi and BMG. It is a concept album based on the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. The co-author of the music is composer Nicola Piovani, who later on won an Academy award for his soundtrack of Roberto Benigni's Life is beautiful.

[edit] Track listing

  • "La collina" (4:03)
  • "Un matto" (2:35)
  • "Un giudice" (2:55)
  • "Un blasfemo" (2:59)
  • "Un malato di cuore" (4:18)
  • "Un medico" (2:39)
  • "Un chimico" (3:00)
  • "Un ottico" (4:35)
  • "Il suonatore Jones" (4:25)

[edit] The songs

Each song is based on a poem from the Spoon River Anthology.

  • "La collina" is based on "The Hill"
  • "Un matto" is based on "Frank Drummer", in which a man memorizes the Encyclopedia Britannica and is considered mad by the people of Spoon River.
  • "Un Giudice" is based on Selah Lively, the story of a midget who studies law and becomes a judge to get a revenge against the people who made fun of him all his life.
  • "Un blasfemo" is based on "Wendell P. Bloyd".
  • "Un malato di cuore" is based on "Francis Turner", in which a man dies of a heart attack while giving his first kiss.
  • "Un medico" is based on "Dr. Siegfried Iseman", the story of a doctor who wants to cure poor people without receiving any payment.
  • "Un chimico" is based on "Trainor, the Chemist", in which a chemist, who doesn't understand the relationships between men and women but loves chemical elements, dies while executing an experiment.
  • "Un ottico" is based on "Dippold the Optician", the story of an optician who wants to create special glasses which show strange images.
  • "Il suonatore Jones" is based on "Fiddler Jones".
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