L'astronave Millennium Falcon di Ian Solo e Chewbecca

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Model of the spaceship “Millennium Falcon”

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The model reproduces the spaceship, the Millennium Falcon, which is driven by Harrison Ford “Ian Solo” and by his co-pilot, the wookie Chewbecca. The spaceship is one of the main-characters of the saga “Star Wars” by George Lucas. The first movie was “Star Wars – Episode IV. A new hope” (1977). The other two movies of the first trilogy are:  “Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “Episode VI: Return of the Jedi” (1983). In 1999 Lucas filmed a trilogy of the prequel, which means he represented the story which took place before the original trilogy. The titles are: “Episode I: The Phantom Menace” (1999), “Episode II: Attack of the Clones” (2002), and “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (2005). In 2012 the Walt Disney Company bought the rights of the series, and they began the production of a new trilogy. They realised the sequel, thus representing what comes after the last episode of the original trilogy of 1977. These are the titles: “Episode VII: The Force Awakens” (2015), “Episode VIII: The Last Jedi” (2017), and “Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker” (2019). There are also two Anthology films: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (2016) and “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (2018). Today the Star Wars universe is infinite just like the one in which the saga is set: multiple spin-offs, TV series, comics and video games. It’s not only a series of movies, but this is a cultural phenomenon which has affected different generations and continues to fascinate kids and adults, since 1977.


Fun fact – When Luke Skywalker jumps into space to save himself from Darth Vader, in the movie “Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back” (1980), he doesn’t actually scream. In the remastered version of 1997, they added the sound effect of the scream. This was not appreciated by the fans due to the fact that Luke not screaming emphasized that he didn’t fear death. In the following versions, the scream was removed and this detail remains solely in the version of 1997.

Curiosity: When Luke Skywalker, the protagonist, throws himself into the void to escape from Darth Vader in 1980's “Empire Strikes Back”, he doesn't actually scream. In 1997, in the remastered version, they added the scream sound effect. An idea that many fans did not appreciate. So, the scream was removed in the subsequent editions. To date, therefore, this detail has remained only in the 1997 version.

SIAE Storage "A famiggia di Lippe"

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SIAE Storage "A famiggia di Lippe"

 

SIAE (the Italian music copyright organization) registration document for “A famiggia di Lippe” (1970) (P. Campodonico / F. De André / G.P. Reverberi).
Pietro Campodonico is the author of the lyrics with Fabrizio De André and Gian Piero Reverberi as the authors of the music. 

Cofanetto dell'album "Tutti morimmo a stento"

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Box of the Album "Tutti morimmo a stento"

 

Rare example of a brown plastic box containing the Fabrizio De André album "Tutti morimmo a stento" (1968), it is a special edition delivered to the record stores in Genoa by Andrea Grillo, the first representative of “Bluebell”, one of the Italian labels founded in Milan in 1959 by Antonio Casetta.
The sales representative and the artist drove around the provinces in Grillo's Fiat 500, visiting retailers to promote De André's records. The shop of the Fratelli Ciglia in Via Cairoli was particularly well known at the time.

 

Riccardo Mannerini's Typescript "Heroine"

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Riccardo Mannerini's Typescript "Eroina"

 

Riccardo Mannerini - "Eroina I - II - III" (1967) - Typescripts - Private, social and existential verses.

On display are the typescripts of "Eroina", one of Riccardo Mannerini's best-known poems, here in its original three parts which the great Genoese poet wrote and then gave to Fabrizio De André and which were subsequently revisited and their metric structure modified by Faber to become "Il cantico dei drogati", a break through text for the time included in the first concept album of the singer-songwriter "Tutti morimmo a stento" (1968).

 

Memories of the Tour 1981/82

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Memories of the Tour 1981/82

 

Memorabilia belonging to Reinhold Kohl, photographer and Fabrizio De André’s friend, who followed Faber on his 1981/82 (the so-called “Indian”) tour (named for the cover photo of the album that came out in 1981), the tour marked the return to the stage of the Genoese singer-songwriter after the terrible episode of his and his wife’s (Dori Ghezzi) kidnapping.
The signatures of all the musicians are shown on the sheet on display at the Museum, Fabrizio's stands out with the unmistakable A of anarchy.

 

Pepi Morgia's Stage Light

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Pepi Morgia's Stage Light

 

Arnold & Richter stage light which belonged to the set designer Pepi Morgia, whose nickname was the "prince of lights" due to his extraordinary ability to give maximum effect to the sets, worked with many of the major Italian and international artists in the course of their long tours in Italy and Europe.
Among them Fabrizio De André, Laura Pausini, Claudio Baglioni, Elton John and many others.

 

Il "tovagliolo" donato a Pepi Morgia

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The "Napkin" donated to Pepi Morgia

 

Fabrizio De André’s handwritten note dedicated to Pepi Morgia is better known as the “napkin”, Morgia was a scenographer and lighting technician, and, from his first appearance on Faber's stage, De André’s friend. The 1981/82 tour touched some of Europe’s  foremost stages such as that of Vienna and it was during a "boozy" evening on this tour that De André gave “the napkin” to Morgia.
Pepi, kept the "gift" for many years, and only made it public in the decade after the death of the songwriter with whom he had shared a long “journey”.

 

Manifesto del concerto di Fabrizio De André e Pfm

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Poster of the Concert by Fabrizio De André and PFM

 

Original poster of the concert by Fabrizio De André and PFM held in Genoa on January 3, 1979 at Pavilion C of the Genoa International Fair.
It is the only known Italian copy and bears the official stamp indicating municipal “approval” for display.
It is a memento of a memorable evening in Genoa which was caught on camera and later was turned into a film “The concert rediscovered” directed by Walter Veltroni.

 

Riccardo Mannerini's Gramophone

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Riccardo Mannerini's Gramophone

 

 

Gramophone "Gallorini Oreste" (1920) in inlaid cherry, which belonged to Riccardo Mannerini, the Genoese poet and Fabrizio De André’s friend with whom the singer-songwriter had an intense collaboration that led to the creation of albums such as "Senza tempo, senza Bandiera(1967) by the New Trolls and Tutti morimmo a stento (1968) in which Mannerini's poem Eroina is transformed into Il cantico dei drogati.

 

Fabrizio De Andrè's Report Cards, Diplomas and School Registers

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Fabrizio De Andrè's Report Cards, Diplomas and School Registers

 

Report cards, diplomas, school registers and class photos of Fabrizio Cristiano De André from his studies at (Section A) of the Liceo Cristoforo Colombo which he attended until his highschool graduation in 1959 (after initially having failed Latin, Greek and philosophy).

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