According to Italian rocksite Rockol and Italian provider Kataweb Zucchero will be one of Pavarotti´s "friends" again during the annual Pavarotti and Friends gala. Other guests will include the legendary Lou Reed (well known for his hit "Walk on the wild side"), Sting, Andrea Bocelli (both Sting and Bocelli joined Pavarotti on stage before: Sting during the first Friends version in ´92 and Bocelli in ´94), young Italian star Elisa. The show is on may 28 and will be broadcasted live on RAI 1, rumours are that Zucchero will sing "Miserere" together with Pavarotti AND Bocelli, we´ll keep you updated!
Paleo festival April 23, 2002
Zucchero will be one of the artists on this year's Paleo festival in Nyon, Switzerland. For more info please go to www.paleo.ch.
Single number 4: Sento le campane April 23, 2002
The new single, the fourth already taken from the smash hit album "Shake", will be "Sento le campane" one of the more rockstyled songs from Shake. Zucchero will promote the song on RAI 1 with an appearance on the Stasera Pago Io show on Saturday, April 27.
Zucchero and Lenny Kravitz April 23, 2002
Zucchero will play together with American rockstar Lenny Krevitz during one of Krevitz´ shows in Rome (June 8) for more info (like whether it´s a "double-date", or if Zucchero will be just a support act or if they will actually jam together) you can mail to info@barleyarts.com.
Un po´ di news April 22, 2002
We have a new internet address. You can now reach us at www.unpodizucchero.net and unpodizucchero.net, we also have some new e-mail adresses:
The address for the entire site and club is unpodizucchero@unpodizucchero.net
The address for the Ask Boris section is askboris@unpodizucchero.net
Please use these e-mail adresses from now on, we won´t check our old account (unpodizucchero@mail2blues.com) anymore.
Don´t forget April 21, 2002
Tomorrow the first 11 songs of Zucchero´s March 17 concert (Sento le campane/ Music in me/ Porca L´Oca/ Ali D´Oro (I lay down)/ Dindondio/ Rossa mela della sera/ Baila (sexy thing)/ Ahum (I´m in trouble)/ Overdose (d´amore)/ Datemi una pompa/ Il Mare) will be broadcast on German radio network NDR2, you can also listen online on this site (click on Live Hören).
Zucchero in Rome April 21, 2002
Zucchero will be one of the artists playing in Rome on May 1, some of the other bands/artists playing on the 1st of May celebration are Elisa and Oasis. The concerts are free and will be partly broadcast live on RAI.
Queen DVD to be released April 12, 2002
A DVD registration of the Freddy Mercury tribute is supposed to be released on May 13. Zucchero sang "Las Palabras De Amor" in a smoking Wembley together with Queen. The story goes that Bryan May flew to Italy to convince Zucchero to come to Wembley. The tracklist of the DVD will be:
Intro piece - interview
Tie Your Mother Down - Queen & Joe Elliott
I Want It All - Queen & Roger Daltry Las Palabras De Amor - Queen & Zucchero
Hammer To Fall - Queen and Gary Cherone
Stone Cold Crazy - Queen and James Hetfield
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen & Robert Plant
Too Much Love Will Kill You - Brian May
Radio Ga Ga - Queen and Paul Young
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen & Seal
I Want To Break Free - Queen & Lisa Stansfield
Under Pressure - Queen/David Bowie/Annie Lennox
All The Young Dudes - Queen & David Bowie
Heroes - Queen & David Bowie
'39 - George Michael & Queen
These Are The Days Of Our Lives - George Michael & Queen
Somebody To Love - George Michael & Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen/Elton John/Axl Rose
We Will Rock You - Queen & Axl Rose
We Are The Champions - Queen & Liza Minelli
"Disc two features a documentary made by DoRo about the event, including backstage footage and rehearsals, and features an introduction by Roger filmed just a few weeks ago. There is also a short piece on the Mercury Phoenix Trust and still photos from fans and from the official photographers. The television version of the documentary will be broadcast on May 25th on Channel Four, and on June 15th on VH1."
After being on hold for some time (let´s say about three years) Funky Gallo will make it´s comeback. The Funky Gallo website is one of the oldest Zucchero sites around, but it´s founder Alex "Funky Gallo" ignored the site for a long time (with only very few updates), even though, in his own words, Alex thinks his site is "the best Zucchero site around" (did he even VISIT some other sites???). Anyway: Funky Gallo will make it´s official comeback starting April 26. Go check it out on this site!
New Yahoo groups April 11, 2002
There are 2 new Zucchero groups on the net: one of the new groups is called "blueshake" and can be reached on this site, the blueshake group is in Italian. The other new group is interesting for the non-Italian fans and is simply called "Zucchero" (why didn´t anybody think of this before :-DDDD), you can reach it on this site.
New tour dates April 5, 2002
Zucchero will play the following gigs in Germany this spring:
May 18 Bad Reichenhall, Sternenzelt Festival
July 20 Lörrach, Stimmen 2002 Festival
August 16 Bonn, Museumsplatz
The tour dates were published on the German polydor site, we are not responsible for any mistakes in this list.
New tour dates, including the summer schedule for Italy, should follow in a short time.
Zucchero on German radio March 30, 2002
A few songs from one of Zucchero´s concerts, probably during the Shake tour, will be broadcasted on German radiostation NDR 2. The show starts at 21:00 on April 22nd. For more info see this site, to listen to the station online (you´ll need Realplayer) check this site (click on Live Hören).
Heineken Music Hall concert (Amsterdam) clips online March 27, 2002
19 minutes and 31 seconds of Zucchero´s show in Amsterdam are online (video). The link for broadband is here (this one doesn´t work for me btw) and the link for the smallband version is here. The songs are Baila (sexy thing), Dindondio, Ali D´Oro and Ahum. New tourdates will come out soon!
Limited Tour Edition also in Italy March 27, 2002
According to news found by our good friend Federico "Sexything" the limited tour edition of Shake (for more info see below) will also be released in Italy!
TV-date March 27, 2002
Zucchero will be a guest/ preform in/ do a tv-show called Sonntagskonzert
on German network ZDF on May 20. Any of the German viewers of the site (we KNOW you´re there!) know what kind of show it is? Feel free to mail us!
Limited tour edition March 24, 2002
A limited tour edition has been released, but what makes the tour edition different from the original one? Here´s a list:
first the obvious: it has a bonus cd with 4 live tracks. It´s ok, Il Volo rocks (with a guitar solo, not a harmonica!), Senza una donna is ok, Baila works. But Ahum isn´t that great; it sounds like Zucchero is like 15 feet away from his microphone.
but there are also little details:
- the cover is different (Zucch´s head is bigger)
- on music in me the organ solo towards the end is a bit shorter
- on porca l´oca the Ray Charles part ("Tell your mom, tell your pop, come and love you baby all night long" or something like that) is changed by Arthur Miles singing "I say yes, I say no, Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii say I don´t know"
- Ahum has a different intro (the apple part is the same, but the part where Chance goes "I´ve got something to tell you etc." is different, it sounds like it´s recorded live) and the Barry White sample is gone and replaced by Arthur Miles saying something (probably the same, I don´t really like that change)
- In Scintille the first sample ("I´m gonna leave this lonely night") is replaced by James Thompson and a certain Sandra Chambers singing the same thing, the second time they use the sample sounds the same like the regular though.
- In Baila the first drum part is different, faster. They also put more backing vocals in it (like "yeah", "ooh", "aha").
That´s it for now, but I´m sure there´s more. You can order the limited tour edition online through Bol.com (Nederlands and Deutsch) and Amazon.de.
New tourdate March 16, 2002
Zucchero will play in Groningen (the Netherlands) on May 11 in Martiniplaza, May 11 is also the date on which the Giro will start in Groningen. At the end of the Amsterdam concert on March 15 leaflets were spread with the news, leading fans to sing "We´re going to Groningen, we´re going to Groningen". Zucchero´s show in Amsterdam was a huge success, more info (including a big review) will follow later.
Shake Limited Tour Edition March 8, 2002
In the Netherlands a special Limited Tour Edition of Shake will be released. It will contain (of course) the first cd with the 11 new Shake songs and an extra cd with 4 live tracks recorded during a Dutch radio show. The songs will be: Il Volo, Ahum, Baila (sexy thing) and Senza Una Donna. The cd is also available online on this site.
Zucchero vs. Sanremo March 2, 2002
"If you don´t want to join them again, beat them" must be Zucchero´s motto for March 9: on the night of the big final of the Sanremo festival Zucchero will give a huge concert on the FilaForum in Milan, this will also be the last Italian concert of the first part of the Shake tour. Dates for the second part should come in soon.