Lucio Dalla would have been 80 years old. March 4, 1943, is a date he managed to etch into music history with an eternal song. On March 1, 2012, however, a heart attack cut him short. Three days later he would have celebrated his 69th birthday and instead his funeral will be celebrated, perceived by all as a bit of a sign of a time that all too soon has come, the time when Lucio Dalla's music, so meaningful to the lives of those over 40 years old.

Dalla's songs are part of a timeless songwriting heritage. Listening to them today, they speak of us, still telling of our country, with that futuristic, visionary, avant-garde edge that he never lacked. On Spotify, eleven years after his departure, more than 30 million people have evoked in their ears "L'Anno che verrà," the most clicked song on Dalla's profile. Can we consider whoever performs it really missing?

"L'anno che verrà" of course is just one of the evergreens signed by the Bolognese singer-songwriter that are still listened to and replayed today, "Anna e Marco" reaches 29 million, "Piazza Grande" 26 million; all songs that by existing deliver to their creator a special license of immortality.

On YouTube Lucio Dalla, with his own official channel alone, has reached 250 million views for his content, proving that it is impossible to forget, to put aside, despite the confusion that reigns supreme in today's music, something that is part of our cultural DNA.

Lucio Dalla is the one of the great classics, it is clear, but he is also the one who arrives at pop from a jazz background, he is the one who imposes from the very beginning, when it was almost science fiction, an image completely against the square beauty of the performers of that time; it is that of "Com'è profondo il mare," an album that illuminated a shadowy zone of Italian music at the time (we are in the late 1970s), a complex, daring musical zone, in production and intentions, but one that is also immediately accessible to the general public, with which it establishes a relationship that will have no time or boundaries.