Luciano Serra Pilota

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For the 1938 war film, see Luciano Serra, Pilot.
"Luciano Serra Pilota"
Song by Righeira
from the album Righeira
LanguageItalian
Released28 September 1983
GenreItalo disco
Length3:27
LabelCGD
Songwriter(s)Johnson Righeira
Producer(s)La Bionda
Music video
"Luciano Serra Pilota" on YouTube

"Luciano Serra Pilota" is a song by the Italian Italo disco duo Righeira, included on their debut studio album, Righeira (1983). Johnson Righeira, the writer of the song, was inspired to write the song after an Italian war drama film of the same name.[1]

Composition

Johnson Righeira wrote "Luciano Serra Pilota" with inspiration from the 1938 Italian war drama film Luciano Serra, Pilot starring Amedeo Nazzari as Luciano Serra. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Righi commented, "The song was mainly based on D.A.F. and Kraftwerk, one of my favourite bands."[2]

"Luciano Serra Pilota" was one of five songs from Righeira to be written solely by Righi (the other four being "Tanzen Mit Righeira", "Gli parlerò di te", "Disco Volante" and "Kon Tiki").[3]

Music video

Pierluigi de Mas directed the music video for "Luciano Serra Pilota", which was filmed in Italy.[4] It premiered on MTV in Italy in 1983 together with the duo's hit single "Vamos a la playa" from the same album, followed by "No Tengo Dinero" in 1984.[5][6][7]

In the music video, Righi and Rota, dressed in pilot uniforms, sings and dance in front of a greenscreen with an image of a biplane as background.[8] In addition to the song, the editors added sounds of machine guns, aircraft and military trumpet signals. The singing has a robotic and tight rhythm, heavily inspired by German music productions.[9]

German writer Eric Pfeil of Rolling Stone has described the music video as a "parody of fascist heroes". He added, "Paying homage to the Italian fighter pilot Luciano Serra wouldn't have been necessary as the Italian propaganda film of the same name from 1938 goes back to the ideas of Benito Mussolini."[10]

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Johnson Righeira, futurista". Vice. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  2. ^ Oliva, Raffaella (26 June 2020). "Johnson Righeira: "Mi manca una sola cosa: essere preso sul serio"". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Righeira – Righeira". Discogs. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Righeira: Luciano serra pilota". IMDb. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Righeira: Luciano serra pilota - Company Credits". IMDb. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Righeira: Vamos a la playa - Company Credits". IMDb. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Righeira: No tengo dinero - Company Credits". IMDb. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Righeira. Luciano Serra Pilota. Produced by La Bionda. Original Version". YouTube. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  9. ^ "LUCIANO SERRA PILOTA Righeira". diapasone.altervista.org. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  10. ^ Pfeil, Eric (28 June 2018). "Eric Pfeils Pop-Tagebuch: Erinnerungen an "Vamos a la playa"". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

External links

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