The first part of my life, the especially artistic one, in very few words:

1944: (29 June) born in Soave (Verona), where I still reside

1960: As a high school student I begin to study and play the battery (at home)

1962: After a short parenthesis in a group of friends (repertoire especially smooth) form the complex “The Storms”, With Giorgio Fedrigoli (solo guitar), Enrico Del Greco, Rhythmic guitar and Paolo Corradi (basso), To which for a few months is added Vitty Bovo (canto). Paolo Corradi will be replaced towards the end of the year by Gilberto Storari, Excellent guitarist and available to play the bass

1963: “Dino e I Kings”, winners in that summer of “Festival of strangers” At Teddy Reno, they propose to replace their drummer, That, with the rhythmic guitarist, has not been approved by the RCA, with which the group should sign a record contract. I accept the condition that Gilberto also enters the group. Condition accepted e, After a month of intense tests (eight hours a day) In October we enter the RCA study in Rome to record “Just the way you are” (Cover on “Hey, Good Looking” at Hank Williams, which will be facade B of “We were friends”, Great success of Dino. “Dino e I Kings” I am: Eugenio “Dino” Zambelli (singer), Ennio Ottofaro (solo guitar), Gilberto Storari (rhythmic guitar), Damiano wise (basso) and the undersigned on the battery.

1965: The story of “Dino e I Kings”, After tensions due to contractual changes that Dino wants to make to our artistic and economic relationship, ends in April. Dino, In order to honor the contracts already signed, It offers to I Mistits of Verona, The complex of the singer Renato Bernuzzi, to take our place. These accept and us, Knowing that Renato was so free from commitments, We offer him to enter our training to create a very modern group, a bit’ At Rolling Stone, where the voice is a group tool. Renato is there, And from here we resume the road. At this point, however, Damiano Pelanda, for family problems, He leaves the band and gives way to Andy de Bruyn, The young bassist of the Veronese group “The dolphins”, that we knew to be very brothe and in line with our projects. . So reconstituted, The Kings signed the contract with the Durium in October. The first album we record, With text written by me, And “Do what you want”, Cover on “Time Is On My Side”, then success of the Rolling Stones, and in turn the cover of the original edition of Irma Thomas. F face “But it's not right”, Cover on “She’s Not There” of the British Zombies.

1966: After a very intense record and concert activity that, over six months, sees the Kings make others 3 individual (45 giri) It's a lp (33 giri), We are ready to participate in the Cantagiro (the first with complexes) with the song “I have you in mind”, already recorded for some time and included in our LP, But we are prevented from the memories, editor of the song, determined to give it to the team 84. In a hurry, Ennio and compose I compose “Fence”, that we record with the group in May, And we face the Cantagiro. The song, that now many judge beautiful song, elegant, of great quality, It is not suitable for hitting the public at the first listening, And so this great tour around Italy proves to be a small failure for us. We resist, And at the beginning of December Ennio and I write I and I write “Bitter coffee”, our most beautiful and intense song, still loved by the Veronese, who have now adopted him as their hymn, so much so that the 22 April 2022 The mayor of Verona will deliver to me and Ennio a plaque to thanks for writing this song! https://www.giornaleadige.it/2022/04/27/riconoscimento-agli-autori-di-caffe-amaro-canzone-simbolo-della-verona-beat/

1967: io, registered in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Padua, I discover at the beginning of January that he forgot to present by 1966 the request for postponement of military service. I receive the precept postcard in anal and before the end of the month I present myself to the barracks “Trizio” of Lecce to pay my debt to the homeland. In primavera Andy, Our bassist, comes out of the group, and is replaced by the old owner Damiano Pelanda. A fine estate “I Kings” they melt.

I add only, For those who want to know everything and also something more on me and what happened in this period that here I only summed up in a very succinct way, that everything is widely told in my book “Bitter coffee – That certain flavor of my 60s”, Cierre Edizioni, Caselle di Sommacampagna, Verona, April 2007 (The volume also contains the musical CD of 45 Original those in Kings. Author: Pierpaolo Adda. Preface: Gigliola Cinquetti(