From Verona A Gialloblù team beats: the Scala anthems | Musica361
The song dedicated to the 1985 championship remains the true anthem of Verona. Here’s the story
The word scudetto has often passed through Verona. We are talking about Hellas Verona to be precise. Football history is well known: the Gialloblù have been in the balance on more than one occasion for the assignment of the Serie A Italian Champion title. “Fatal Verona”.
Yet, musically, we’ve all learned to call her, from the 1970s onwards, Beat of Verona.
Let’s go and see the history of the hymn of the yellow and blue team, starting from that song that I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli recorded in the now distant 1979.
The quartet, at that time, was achieving great success a Inclination And Non stop. To pay homage to the city known to all for being that of the love between Romeo and Juliet, Umberto Smaila (Rossoneri fan!) And Nini Salerno composed a song inspired by a Veronese magazine that dealt with beat music.
It was an opportunity to celebrate the contemporaneity of a Verona that was no longer just that of Shakespeare. With many references to the fashions of ’68 and a look at the dominant feminist thought a few years later, the Gatti made a poetically romantic portrait of Verona.
Not only that: it was the description of a generation and its way of thinking.
There was already, in 1979, a sense of melancholy nostalgia for a past that seemed very distant and was still very close. Music played simply on the guitar. Beliefs and battles that many have passed through and then find themselves in the end to be few. Secret diaries halfway between love novels and erotic literature, in the years when songwriters shouted for freedom. Well, what does all this have to do with football?
Easy, after having been on the scales for the ’72 -’73 championship (the second Fatal Verona was in ’90), here is that the boys trained by Osvaldo Bagnoli surprisingly won the championship in 1985.
Of course it was a sensationally exceptional event. It really felt like a fairytale for a team that, up until that moment, had always fought for salvation. A team that didn’t have a real anthem.
So, in the absence of other songs, the Scudetto was celebrated with Verona Beat.
A few weeks passed and here is the authentic at last: Gialloblù team.
It is one of the most choral songs, with an “Oh oh oh” capable of involving the whole stadium and even the supporters twinned with the Gialloblù.
The hymn is in effect a celebratory piece of the Scudetto, described precisely as a tricolor dream come true and of which an encore is dreamed of.
The choral nature of the piece and its refrain are clearly affected by the success of We are The world, putacaso of the same year. There is an overall atmosphere that echoes in the song’s refrain. A short verse to an incision, several times, always in crescendo.
In a rush of poetry, of course, there is also some license that goes beyond grammar.
“The Scudetto will remain us forever, long live Verona Calcio and Verona city”.
The meaning is clear: a scudetto is worth forever to make its fans proud. Perhaps even for this one song is enough forever.
In fact, the years passed and the other team, Chievo, also exploded in Verona. The two Scala teams challenged each other for the first time only in 1994, in Serie B. In the top flight they met for the first time on November 18, 2001. Chievo remained in Serie A for some time despite their cousins. In short, Hellas Verona was no longer the only team in the city. It took a hymn of pride. Something extra.
So in 2010 the band I Cedrini recorded a song composed by the leader Leonardo Frattini with Nelide Bandello. The Hellas Verona song it is a song full of irony (“my grandmother sings it too, you can sing it too”), pride (there is no lack of references to the Scudetto, missing from the Chievo bulletin board), rock. The pace is in fact much more modern. They liked it, however it remained a piece for the fans. The true hymn remained that of the 1985 championship, as in a constant that we begin to find from various points of ours Football Music. When there is a victory, the fans become attached to everything that concerns it. It is no coincidence, in fact, that at the end of every Gialloblù home game, Verona Beat also echoes from the coffers of the Bentegodi.
The background music therefore unites the stadium, in a passion that is always indescribable if not with the emotions that come to the notes sung by the fans. The true hymn is always chosen by people.