Stadio & Vasco Rossi

Stadio remained one of the premier bands in Italian pop for more than a quarter-century. Singer Gaetano Curreri, guitarist Ricky Portera, bassist Marco Nanni, keyboardist Fabio Liberatori, and drummer Giovanni Pezzoli co-founded the group in 1979 after first collaborating on a session headlined by vocalist Lucio Dalla. Their self-titled debut LP followed in 1982, and two years later Stadio earned its first real mainstream attention with "Allo Stadio," a popular and critical favorite at the annual San Remo Festival. In late 1984 Stadio scored its signature hit, "Chiedi Chi Eran...