Vladimir Vysotsky, the poet censored

In the cold of the Soviet Union of the'60s echoed illegal immigration a hot item, graffiante. Was that of a man inspired, a poet, whose impatience to the rigidity of the system they had compromised their existence. His name was Vladimir Vysotsky. His verses full of misery, at home, was never printed a word. The censure them wrapped in his cloak dark, so that the cries of dissent came not ear of the people oppressed. The writer then Strap on a guitar and turns in singer. Throughout Moscow began to spread so the craft recordings of his songs, which extended the fame and made him the spokesman of an entire people. The indissolubility of this relationship found a clear testimony to the crowd (about one million people) that gremio the streets of the capital on the occasion of his funeral, although the news of the death on July 25 1980, had been intentionally taciuta bodies of the press. Nearly thirty years after the death, the tomb of Vysotsky no shortage flowers and other declarations of affection. The sincere attention to the marginalized and dispossessed, within a context of political and civil extreme tension, and the excesses and the odd behavior of an inimitable life (alcohol, morphine dependence ...), are undoubtedly the main factors of a this success. A mix of De Andrè, D'Annunzio and Baudelaire who today lives through the notes of melancholic works, finally engraved on disc and distributed worldwide.

Andrea Bonfgilio