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I
split my life between
England and Italy - In Rome "in" places were the Piper Club and
the
Titan Club.
- Of course I had to buy a Rickenbacker
and played in group ... called The
Noise. - At
the end of school, during holydays I used to come to Swinging
London, and go to the Windsor
Jazz
Festivals,
the Marquee,
Tiles, Middle
Earth, and the
Speakeasy where I photographed
The Beatles,
Cream, Jimi Hendrix,
The
Stones, The Who,
(of which I recently sold the negatives through Christies).
I then worked as (single frame) Vertical Animation
Camera Operator at Harry
Hess Studio, had
a go at working for RAI, but eventually
ended up as International Product Manager at Phonogram
Italy (now Polygram). During the eleven years with them, I
was able to organize a few N°1's, such as
Blondie, Dire
Straits, Santa
Esmeralda, Barry
White and Genesis.
In the meantime I also contributed
to leading music
magazines such as Big,
Ciao 2001, Muzak and SuperSound,
as well as to RAI's main
national radio programme "Per
Voi Giovani". I eventually became an independent
producer with,
amongst others, a band called Ella
& The Angels. With the ever growing convergence of audio
and
video, I set up my own studio,
not an elaborate affair, just a Fostex 16 track and a couple
of
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