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Wikipedia article




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"'Luciano Serra Pilota'" is a song by the Italian Italo disco duo Righeira, included on their debut studio album, 'Righeira' (1983). Johnson Righeira, the writer of the song, was inspired to write the song after an Italian war drama film of the same name.

Composition



Johnson Righeira wrote "Luciano Serra Pilota" with inspiration from the 1938 Italian war drama film 'Luciano Serra, Pilot' starring Amedeo Nazzari as Luciano Serra. In an interview with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, Righi commented, "The song was mainly based on D.A.F. and Kraftwerk, one of my favourite bands."

"Luciano Serra Pilota" was one of five songs from 'Righeira' to be written solely by Righi (the other four being "Tanzen Mit Righeira", "Gli parler di te", "Disco Volante" and "Kon Tiki").

Music video



Pierluigi de Mas directed the music video for "Luciano Serra Pilota", which was filmed in Italy. It premiered on MTV in Italy in 1983 together with the duo's hit single "Vamos a la playa" from the same album, followed by "No Tengo Dinero" in 1984.

In the music video, Righi and Rota, dressed in pilot uniforms, sings and dance in front of a greenscreen with an image of a biplane as background. In addition to the song, the editors added sounds of machine guns, aircraft and military trumpet signals. The singing has a robotic and tight rhythm, heavily inspired by German music productions.

German writer Eric Pfeil of 'Rolling Stone' has described the music video as a "parody of fascist heroes". He added, "Paying homage to the Italian fighter pilot Luciano Serra wouldn't have been necessary as the Italian propaganda film of the same name from 1938 goes back to the ideas of Benito Mussolini."

Personnel



* Johnson Righeira songwriter, vocals

* Michael Righeira vocals

* Michelangelo La Bionda producer

* Carmelo La Bionda producer

References




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