The procession from the Campidoglio to Piazza del Popolo, the applause and then the songs of a lifetime sung in chorus. Emotion, tears and affection during the funeral of Stefano D’Orazio, the historic drummer of Pooh passed away at the age of 72. The funeral was held privately due to the emergency Coronavirus in the church of the Artists. «I lost a part of myself, Stefano was my strength, my smile, I will miss everything about him», said his wife Tiziana. Tightened in pain Red Canzian, Dody Battaglia, Roby Facchinetti and Riccardo Fogli, friends and colleagues of a lifetime.
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“Thought”, “Don’t leave me but more”, some of the songs sung from the square by hundreds of fans from all over Italy. Among them also Antonio Grillo, founder of the group “Il grande popolo dei Pooh”: “For us he was a friend, a brother …”. The coffin was greeted in Piazza del Popolo by a long applause then the choirs to remember “our Stefano”. Many fans ready to say goodbye to D’Onofrio waved heart-shaped balloons in the sky. At 3 pm the ceremony began while hundreds of fans in tears remembered him singing the songs of Pooh in the square. Lorella Cuccarini, Roberto Ciufoli and Fausto Brizzi were also present at the ceremony. After more than an hour after the end of the ceremony, the coffin was faced by a very long applause. The people of the Poohs are all here, in Piazza del Popolo, to give their last farewell to Stefano D’Orazio.
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