Santo Sottile, the African, was with Vasco allo Snoopy in the golden years and is mentioned in “Colpa d’Alfredo” for stealing a girl from him
June 28, 2020
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MODENA “Vasco would call me” negro “even today”. There is no resentment in the words of Santo Sottile. Today petrol station, he was Vasco’s “competitor” DJ. Forty years later, the dancing fun seems even more distant for the pandemic. A fun that he, Holy Subtle “the African”, remembers as if it were yesterday. «At that time we had a lot of fun – explains Sottile – and we were all very young. For work reasons, I worked with Vasco at Snoopy. Being a DJ in those years was a great fun there. How can you not have fun if you are 18-20 years old and you work in a disco? You were a character ».
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—It was 1980 when a young girl caught the attention of Blasco. To go out with her, however, was Sottile, attracting the ire of the singer-songwriter like the woman. “She went home with the nigger, the bitch,” the phrase of a song that revolutionized history. “Can you take me home tonight? – the request of the young woman in Colpa d’Alfredo – Dress outside Modena, Modena Park ».
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A name that has remained in the memory of the singer-songwriter, so much so that he dedicated 37 years after the biggest concert ever organized by a single artist in the world. “I was at Modena Park,” recalls Sottile. The emotion is not that of then. «I can’t say that I was too excited because in our time we worked in a disco and we were young – resumes the ex DJ, now a gas station – but I still liked it a lot. He has made many songs of our times and has not made the newest ones ».
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However, a judgment that does not hold grudges for the sentences of four decades ago. “Then he made fun of me – adds Sottile – and offended me from start to finish. He was angry because I took the girl away from him. However, there is nothing racist about it. He has always specified it in all the interviews and in the books that “Santino is white” ».
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The Alfredo of the title was also “squared” by Vasco, found “guilty” of having distracted him at a propitious moment. From the petrol station in via Amendola, Sottile can claim to have won a youth challenge with Vasco Rossi. An episode that also made him famous, plant manager associated with Faib Confesercenti. «The kids of that generation all remember it – continues Sottile – and people still talk about it. It was wonderful. Many people didn’t even know it was me, then there was an explosion. ” It does not happen to all plant operators to receive an autograph request after a full tank. Close to Modena Park, customers have even arrived “from Milan and Turin”. So the fuel has embellished thanks to a signature and some anecdote. The perfect stop for fans. “Vasco the perfect storm” will instead be the special on Modena Park and the people of over 225 thousand spectators. Broadcast on Wednesday 1st July on Rai Uno, the special may not have a historical spectator. «It depends on the job – comments Sottile – it is not that you wait to look at it. It was nice to be there ». Just as he had missed the Lego Modena Park, defined by Vasco himself as a “beautiful tribute to the event of the century” on social media. Social where young people spend too much time today for Sottile. “The mothers screamed for us to go home – the ex DJ resumes – while now they are struggling to get their children out”. The disco remained a bridge between generations, at least before Covid. «We still don’t know what will happen with the disease – comments Sottile – but the disco is a place where people get crowded. The two meters away are then absurd ». –
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