Mogol: “The” tense arms “of Battisti were not for the Duce”

In a long interview with the CourierMogol has returned to talk about the alleged closeness between Lucio Battisti and the Italian right. In 1973, in fact, the Battisti-Mogol Public couple The Ciliegi hilla song that will drag behind a long controversy for the verse “Planando on the woods of tense arms”, considered part of the fascist symbolism. In a politically very hot period for our country, Battisti is one of the few not to take sides, and so that verse becomes for some the manifestation of the musician's political sympathies.

Mogol, however, wanted to return to the question and clarify: “I never heard of him about politics, Lucio was outside” he explained, underlining the apoliticality of the musician, “the misunderstanding was born for the expression” gliding over the woods of tense arms “contained in The Ciliegi hillimage then ended on the cover of a disc. But the arms were stretched for the Lord, not for the Duce ». Adding: «He was an individualist. He believed in freedom, on the merits. I don't know that he went to vote ».

Also in the interview, Mogol said that, through a medium, Battisti left him a song directly from the afterlife: “One day my secretary tells me that a medium has put in touch with Battisti and that he, from the afterlife, has to deliver a song for me, entitled The rainbow. Obviously I don't call it back, indeed I react with annoyance. The days pass, when on the cover of the magazine Signature of the Diners Club I see a photo of Lucio surrounded by a rainbow ».

And again, on the end of the report: «I claimed a equal relationship in the distribution of revenues, fifty and fifty. It didn't go like this. And we broke, but only professionally ».