I just heard on the radio 'Wonderful', sung first by Modugno and then by Negramaro, who so recently (2008) a cover, this beautiful song whose text is Riccardo Pazzaglia. I like the song and I love to recall here the political commitment of Modugno, which began with public expressions of sympathy for the Italian Socialist Party, which had donated the copyright of the song "The Anniversary," composed in 1973 * in during the campaign for "no" to the referendum on the repeal of the law-Baslini Fortuna, who had introduced divorce in Italy in 1971. Political activity Modugno was strengthened in the second half of the '80s, when, impressed by the activity for the disabled Disabled Radical Front, became interested in the efforts of the Radical Party, for which he ran in the general election of 1987. He was among the Members X term in the House. In Parliament, his work was mainly aimed at safeguarding the rights of the disabled and the rules for the artists.
From Sicilian love also remember the love of Modugno for Sicily and its dialect, but even more the battle for the patients' psychiatric hospital in Agrigento, who suffered inhuman living conditions, although the law had entered Basaglia in force for a decade now. He succeeded, in 1988, to close the hospital, and devoted himself to the hospital for a gig. Modugno was the first concert was held after his illness. Modugno was often a guest of the Cultural Centre Pier Paolo Pasolini, received with great sympathy and affection. He was also elected in 1990 always in Agrigento, a local councilor. _______________ *
text Yahya Sastri
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