The Long Farewell to Peppino di Capri: The Departure of an Icon of Great Italian Music by Carlo Coppola
Questo articolo con il titolo " Il lungo addio a Peppino di Capri: se ne va un'icona della grande musica italiana " di Carlo Coppola è apparso in lingua italiana sul giornale " Bariconnessa " diretto da Marina Basile al seguente link: https://www.bariconnessa.it/news/cultura/lungo-addio-a-peppino-di-capri-icona-musicale-della-musica-italiana/3233 One can still hear them echoing in memory: those Stereo 8 cassettes that clicked decisively into the car radio, evoking even today the full warmth and spirit of an entire epoch—an era that found in Peppino di Capri one of its most distinctive and beloved voices. This morning, at Villa Castiglione, Giuseppe Faiella—known to the world as Peppino di Capri —passed away at the age of 86. He would have celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday on 27 July. The phrase “long farewell” is far from mere rhetoric. Following the death in 2019 of Giuliana Gagliardi, his devoted companion for nearly four decades, Peppino’s health had...
