''Un biglietto del tram'' is the fourth studio album by the Italian

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band Stormy Six. It was released in 1975. The climate for the release of this record (among other things, one of the first "

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" outputs) is the years of lead and politicization of every aspect of life. Stormy Six represented the official voice of the student movement in

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(or what remained of it), by far the groups' most important challenge of 1968. The concept of the work is related to the struggle for liberation from

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barbarism; all the songs have descriptions of facts (or considerations) linked to guerrilla warfare. And during this era, there was a "policy" or view the reaffirmation of an identity and a history without which no speech "

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" is possible. Thus, there was no chance of "revivalism".Un Biglietto del Tram – Stormy Six – Recensione di Zio Burba
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Track listing

;Side A #"Stalingrado" – 5:25 #"La fabbrica" – 3:53 #"Arrivano gli americani" – 5:55 #"8 settembre" – 4:52 ;Side B #"Nuvole a Vinca" – 4:25 #"Dante di Nanni" – 4:18 #"Gianfranco Mattei" – 4:22 #"La sepoltura dei morti" – 3:53 #"Un biglietto del tram" – 5:42

Personnel

Franco Fabbri Franco Fabbri (born 1949) is a Brazilian-born Italian musician, musicologist and broadcaster. Born in São Paulo in 1949, from 1965 Fabbri was guitarist, vocalist and composer for Stormy Six, regarded as one of the most interesting Italian prog ...

– guitar, vocals *Umberto Fiori – guitar, vocals *Carlo De Martini – saxophone, violin *Tommaso Leddi – violin, mandolin, balalajka, guitar *Luca Piscicelli – bass guitar, vocals *Antonio Zanuso – drums

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External links

* 1975 albums Stormy Six albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub