December 14th 2005. A Tenco case for a clueless Beppe Grillo

In picture: Luigi Tenco few days before his death (1967)
Beppe Grillo, the most famous italian blogger and popular comedian, like most of us write on his blog like about everything. His blog is beppegrillo.it, but you already know that.
Recently a magistrate reopened the case for the death of the great italian folksinger Luigi Tenco, who allegedly killed himself in his hotel room in Sanremo forty years ago, and Grillo jumped on the case, publishing a letter from folksinger Gino Paoli (it's a folk story, yep). Here:
http://www.beppegrillo.it/2005/12/vedrai_che_camb.html
(You can read more on the reopening of Tenco's case here, and also consider the interview with folksinger Lucio Dalla. Both in italian, sorry about that).
Paoli's letter basically says: leave Tenco resting in his grave, justice in Italy sucks, we should not reopen this 40 years old case, there are more important things to do, etc. A nice bar-chatting nonsense, were completely different and trifling things are put toghether with no other reason than to be published by Grillo.
Grillo completely agrees with the letter (another typical italian thing: he would not have it published at all if he did not agree with it in the first place) and adds:
Luigi Tenco commited suicide 39 years go in San Remo. In one of his songs/poems sung:
"This /it's not the Life for sure / you dreamt one day for us / You'll see, you'll see / You'll see it change / maybe not tomorrow / but one beautiful day, it will change / maybe not tomorrow / but one day it will change"
Tenco dreamt already then - Grillo goes on - a different Italy. Like us. You'll see we are going to make it. (Translation by Italy is Falling)
Oh, what is worse than politics smeared all over poetry like a scattered paint of crap?
This is enough, you megalomaniac Grillo ass. Yes I am addressing you, like you do with the big guns.
First thing: Vedrai, vedrai ("You'll see") is not a political song at all.
Grillo, please, pay attention. Not everything is politics. Not all the stuff that drives you emotional agrees with your idea of the world.
Vedrai, vedrai is a great, moving, bitter love song in french style, as most of the songs by Tenco are. Bitter love songs. The bitternes is often confused with a political stance against the establishment, but as a matter of fact Tenco never did such statements.
The fact that you are referring to his verses as political, means you don't care no shit about Tenco himself. You only want to pile up arguments in support of your heroical position in a supposed fight against the establishment.
Shame on you, mr. Grillo.
(I removed from the post second, third and fourth "thing" because I felt they were not that much interesting. They were mostly about why Tenco died in San Remo, why reopen the case today, and how Paoli is a big mafioso all but uninterested in the story and should just shut up. I may post this things in the comments later for all my morbidest readers)
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