Pooh (band)

In 1964, Jaguars formed its first stable line-up, composed of Negrini and Bertoli along with vocalist Vittorio Costa, bassist Giancarlo Cantelli, and rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Bruno Barraco.

In April 1968, the quartet first earned a place on the record charts with its song "Piccola Katy", originally side B of their fifth single "In Silenzio", reaching the fifteenth position of the hit parade.

Shortly after the release of the album and following the tour of summer concerts (September 1968), Mario Goretti, tired of the constant movements around Italy, left the band and returned to Bologna, where he found an amplifier company.

In order not to do wrong either to the interpretation of Dodi in "Noi due nel mondo e nell'ima" or to the increasingly indolent Riccardo di Nascerò con te, it was decided that the single be published as a Doppio Lato A, choosing a white cover with just the name of the group in the foreground and the photo of the four.

Anticipated by the singles Io e Te Per Altri Giorni and Infiniti Noi, this LP uniquely mixes British-derived symphonic pop in the Italian panorama with the sophisticated melodies of Roby Facchinetti as in the homonymous Parsifal or in L'anno, Il Posto, L'Ora.

Songs such as "Pierre" and "Linda", with which Pooh participate in the Festivalbar, and which Miguel Bosé will sing in Spanish obtaining success, and the album Poohlover mark a clear change from the recent past.

The lyrics no longer focus only on love, but approach everyday life and social issues; in fact, Poohlover speaks of homosexuals, prostitutes, gypsies and prisoners.

With Linda, the group returns after a few years to the top of the charts; in Piazza San Marco in Venice, a party is set up for the ten-year career of the complex: the Poohs are photographed near a giant polystyrene cake.

Roby, Dodi and Stefano, without Red, but accompanied by Valerio as singer, open a parenthesis at this point by recording, under the name of Mediterraneo System, a single with the songs Think about it?

Anticipated by the summer 45 Give me just a minute, the LP Rotolando respirando is released, the first produced by the CGD, the new record company, with which the Pooh signed a contract after having separated from the previous CBS.

The disc is recorded twice as the mixes were completely wrong in the first session; to remedy the technical errors the Pooh chose to remix the album at the Stone Castle Studios of the Castello di Carimate, at the time among the most avant-garde in Europe.

Subsequently, the disc, ... Stop (1980) inaugurated the new decade with the single, I will sing for you (side B Wind season) and other famous songs such as Inca, Vienna, Midnight air, Ali to look, and eyes to fly.

The disc, in addition to "light" songs such as Boys of the World or Come We Will, also contains pieces with a darker tenor such as Wild and The Day Before, which imagines the results of a nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, a theme very much felt at the time.

The song, If there is a place in your heart, first interpreted exclusively by Stefano D'Orazio, is chosen as the closing theme of the program Il corso del monday, while Se nasco another time is used for the launch of the disc and participates also at the Festivalbar.

The commitment of this album is underlined by songs such as Terry B., inspired by a news story that happened in Milan the previous year starring the American model Terry Broome, C'est difficile mais c'est la vie, un particular piece with a piano introduction performed by Roby Facchinetti, Venti, an autobiographical piece in which the Pooh play with the chronological / atmospheric double meaning of the title.

The social commitment of the Pooh continues along the lines of the previous album: the theme of the destruction of the planet runs after in In the grass, in the water and in the wind, the growth of racial discrimination in Without Borders, without leaving behind the melodic pieces that more have distinguished their style, as in What do you want it to be and The girl with the eyes of the sun sung by Stefano D'Orazio.

In 1992 the success of Pooh is witnessed by a record, The sky is blue above the clouds, from which the singles Maria marea, 50 springs, Stare senza di te and La miaface are chosen.

In 1993, relations within the group began to break down, with Red, Dodi and Stefano banning Roby from participating in the Sanremo Festival with the song Vivrò, featured in Facchinetti's second solo work, Fai col cuore.

The Pooh, who since 1990 have returned in possession of part of their catalog of the sixties, decide to publish the best pieces of those years in a rearranged and re-sung version in a modern key, with the current members of the band trying their hand at songs that have passed into the oblivion of memory, such as Brennero 66, E after this night and La solita storia.

In 1999, Un posto felice was released: singles such as Dimmi di Sì, Se balla da solo and Mi manchi are among the most important pieces of the year and allow Pooh to participate in the Festivalbar and to fill squares and stadiums, finding the relationship large audience that seemed lost after a few missteps in the mid-nineties.

Given the difficulty in intertwining music with history, Saverio Marconi advises the Pooh to choose another subject and this is found in Pinocchio, one of the most read books in the world that has just returned to the screens with the film by Roberto Benigni.

In mid-April 2009, the press agencies broke the news that, following the release of a new album entitled Ancora una Notte Together (2 CD), which took place on 8 May, and the subsequent tour departing on 18 July from the Royal Palace of Caserta, drummer Stefano D'Orazio intended to leave the group after 38 years of association.

The tour, whose number of dates has grown during the course of the work (from 4 to 38), was closed by two special evenings at the Mediolanum Forum in Assago, the second of which was broadcast live on radio by RTL 102.5 and the subject of television coverage.

In a press conference held on 3 March 2010, the Poohs reveal their future plans, announcing the continuation of the group's activity with a three-person line-up (tested with two concerts in Canada at the Fall View Casino, near Niagara Falls), and the intention to use a session player on drums, specifically Steve Ferrone, former drummer for international artists such as Eric Clapton, Bee Gees, Tom Petty and George Harrison.

The single from the new album, also titled Where the sun begins, is a rock musical suite with lyrics and atmospheres that bring the group back to opera like their Parsifal and Time, a woman, the city.

For 9 October 2012, the group announces the release of the new work entitled Second Opera; then began a tour in the main theaters throughout Italy accompanied by the Ensemble Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Giacomo Loprieno.

In the following months, a triple album and a live DVD taken from the concerts in Milan are announced, and the tour between September and December in the sports halls and exhibition centers.

Five-voice reinterpretations of the historical pieces Pensiero, Noi due nel mondo e nell'anima, Chi Fermerà la Musica, Piccola Katy, Pierre are published, as well as the unpublished Tante storie fa, Le cose che vorrei, Ancora una canzone and Traguardi, all included on the triple live album Pooh 50 - L'ultima notte insieme, released on 16 September.

A widely announced conclusion: in an interview a few months earlier, Red Canzian had stated that "Pooh will continue to follow their history, their discography and protect the socio-cultural heritage they represent, but they will no longer make records or concerts together".

[citation needed] On 14 July 2017, Trilogia (1987–1990) was released on CD and vinyl, a celebratory special box that contains the albums Il colore dei Pensieri, Oasi and Uomini Soli, as well as a bonus disc extracted from Live in Milan (Piazza Duomo 1990).

Pooh in 1972