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Lucio Battisti

Alternative rock

Alternative rockDiscoLatin pop

Lucio Battisti is a Alternative rock and Disco act. Their catalogue also touches Latin pop, Progressive rock and Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of Paul Anka, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Animals. Those roots explain a lot about how Lucio Battisti arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Edoardo Bennato, Antonello Venditti, Jovanotti, Zucchero and Luciano Ligabue, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Grass Roots, Edoardo Bennato, The Hollies, Blanco and Mango, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Lucio Battisti, reaching back through Paul Anka and forward to The Grass Roots. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.