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The writer Sergio Marchi has also written about Charly García and Luis Alberto Spinetta.
An element that draws the attention of Some Time Ago: The Life of Gustavo Cerati is that it begins with an episode in Colombia. “I always look for an anecdote that hooks the reader, and that Gustavo has been able to touch with Carlos Santana at a concert in Bogota’s Campin It was something that was coupled with the fact that Santana was the first musician he went to see in his life. Something similar happened to me; I wrote my first book about Charly (Don’t say anything: a life of Charly García) and he was the first artist I saw and then I was almost living with him,” says Marchi, who is now 60 years old and acknowledges that he does not run through his veins. blood, but ink, referring to his nature as a journalist.
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As well as school adventures and a family dynamic that it allowed us to see other textures of the man and not only of the star.
“I do not say it with all countries, but with Colombia I have something special, I calculate that because of Gabriel García Márquez and all his books and the names of the cities and what I imagine Colombia to be. Thus, mountains, jungle, sea, Caribbean, coffee, ”explains Marchi excitedly, who feels that it is like a delicious Macondo, that land that embraced Cerati days before his last concert in Venezuela.
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There are one hundred interviewees, more than 100 interviews. From there comes what this book is, then what you have to do is start sewing ”
Relying on testimonials from family and friends (he did not have the testimony of Zeta Bosio or Charly Alberti) helps in the goal of surpassing the star. Although the conflicts of the band, the egos, the solitary adventures of the singer and even the controversial and interesting reinventions are not left aside.
The cover of the book full of details and memories.
There is not much mystery in what I do, I just work a lot. I am very obsessive. I take care of the detail and I have a certain sense of smell to detect when they are telling me something that was not.
After trying “in endless groups” he saw an ad in a rock magazine called Pelo and had the opportunity to review concerts and records.. He bought vinyl, magazines and kept writing.
Charly Alberti, Gustavo Cerati and Zeta Bosio during the promotion of the tour You will see me return (2007), ten years after the official dissolution of the group.
The singer turned 55 on August 11.
