Farewell to Giovanni Pezzoli, drummer and founder of Stadio. He was 70 years old

Just under 48 hours into the new year John Pezzoli, drummer and founder of Stadio, dies at the age of 70. The members of the group themselves gave the news on their official Facebook page: «Our thoughts and our hearts are filled with pain, we want to remember him with his smile and the desire to make music to keep us entertained. Hi John.” In the night between 24 and 25 March 2016, during a holiday in the mountains, Pezzoli was struck by a serious illness that would mark the rest of his life while continuing, amidst a thousand difficulties, to perform together with his lifelong companions.

In June 2021 Giovanni Pezzoli comes hospitalized for investigations until November 27, 2022, on the Facebook page named Giovanni Pezzoli friends, attributable to the artist, a post appears dedicated to his precarious health conditions: «Giovanni is not well. For now we cannot add anything else out of respect for him and his family. We only ask you to be patient and think of Gio with all the positivity possible, which we hope will be of help to you. These are difficult times, please do not insist on asking for information. Thank you so much”. “Gio at this moment more than ever needs our positive energies, everything that your affection can produce that is concrete and useful for the battle he is fighting”.

Born in Bologna on 14 May 1952, Giovanni Pezzoli discovers his passion for music at a very young age, while still a child building a small homemade battery with drums of detergent and a knitting needle. His debut in a band is with The undecidedwhile the crucial year of its formation is the 1981, when he decides, together with his friend Gaetano Curreri, to found the Stadio thanks also to the help of Lucio Dalla, with whom Pezzoli will collaborate until 1992, and Ron.

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