![]() Then we returned to Italy and had a contract with Cinevox Records, and they were the publishers of Dario Argento’s films. Then we lived in London for almost one year in 1974, we recorded a lot of demos and played a lot of concerts in England. In this period we were writing songs in the studio for one year, and then we formed the early Goblin band, but under the name Oliver. I was doing military service at the time, in 1972. After Ritratto Di Dorian Gray we formed a new band with Massimo Morante. We were a band of second generations! We lived in London in 1974. So at the time you formed a band with your buddy Walter Martino, the son of another famous singer? We had some famous groups like PFM and Banco. There was a time in the early ‘70s when we had so-called Italian pop, but it was really progressive rock, similar but quite different to what was coming out from the rest of Europe. My first band was called Ritratto Di Dorian Gray, because I’m a fan of Oscar Wilde. You formed your first band in ‘72, I guess? They have one album live with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Most of the rock bands were coming from classical music – Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Yes, even Deep Purple. It helped me learn how to use my classical background and put it in rock, because progressive rock and classical at the time was very similar. I studied composition and piano here in Rome, at Accademia di Santa Cecilia, but at the same time I played with rock bands in garages. I really enjoyed studying again, to study piano. But after two or three years, at the end of the ‘60s, the era of pop music was arriving – The Beatles and Rolling Stones, then later Genesis and King Crimson, that’s my culture. I didn’t feel like playing for hours and hours. But actually I didn’t like it very much, because I was very young and to study music is very hard, it’s very boring. I started playing and studying piano when I was eight, in Brazil. My father Enrico Simonetti was a very famous musician in Italy and also a TV entertainer, so I was lucky because I was born into a musical family. I have a mix between Brazilian culture and Italian because, of course, I am Italian. For everybody, the first ten years are very important for your whole life. I have a lot of feeling for Brazilian music because I lived there for the first part of my life. Yes, I was born in São Paulo, because my father worked there for 15 years, and I stayed there for 12. ![]() Italo disco, responsible for the Capricorn band, which wasn’t really a band but was Simonetti himself in his home studio. You may know some of the movies he made soundtracks for, Dario Argento, the horror director – Suspiria, Deep Red, Phenomena, and even George Romero, Dawn of the Dead. We all grew up scared to death by some of the songs he composed. Simonetti and the music he has done through the years – especially for us kids in their thirties – means horror music. So you have to understand that, for us, Mr. The tracklist editing of this release and the inner notes have been delivered by Fabio Capuzzo, author of the Goblin encyclopedia Sette Note in Rosso (Seven Notes in Red).Please welcome Mr. Phenomena, a film by Dario Argento from 1985, is today an international cult classic of horror cinema, born once again from the Italian director's incredible imagination.The original soundtrack, a fragmentary mix of songs by the duo Simonetti-Pignatelli, made specifically for the film, together with others already released by Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Andi Sex Gang and Bill Wyman, is here completely focused solely on the two original Goblin members Fabio Pignatelli and Claudio Simonetti's production.
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