Silver Pozzoli – Around My Dream
#quotefromthe80s
I want a love to keep me going baby
I close my eyes and all I dream is you.
See, see, see
See my dream around
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In general, anyone who is defined as a voice out of the choir is a person who disagrees with the majority. Or, in the 1980s, he could have been in a much more literal sense someone who had been featured on great themes and songs as a backing vocalist, and who suddenly finds success as a solo performer with a song of his own.
Maybe you now think of some tenor or some opera voice that becomes protagonist in the world of opera, but we can prove that these things happened exactly at the crossroads between the fantastic worlds of cartoons and discos. And since we were in Italy, I’d say we can really mention the fabulous world of Italo-disco.
Our hero, grown in the immediate Milanese hinterland, was among the voices of the choirs of very important and unforgettable cartoon tunes, even if his name rarely appears. By the way, his name is Silvio.
In 1983 our Silvio, always quite incognito, finds himself participating in more important productions, such as the album Bollicine by Italian rocker Vasco Rossi, or some medley experiments of famous songs such as a production of Club House called Do it Again Billie Jean, which of course blended the two unforgettable hits of Steely Dan and Michael Jackson. His name does not appear, but his voice is very recognizable.
The following year Silvio takes another step forward, recording a song that will become history of the 80s, even if it will be credited to another artist. We are talking about the beautiful Mad Desire, which we all know as a Den Harrow song, but was in reality sung by our Silvio (and in the album version it will be recorded by Tom Hooker, another great backing vocalist who will later find success with Looking for Love).
In short, in June 1985 our Silvio was ready to record a song all by himself. An Italo-disco track, of course, but with a certain vocal setting in his own style. Actually he is almost ready, but to give a touch of internationality he must slightly adapt his first name, without even touching his surname, and so our Silvio can enter the Olympus of Italo-disco with the beautiful hit Around My Dream, and since then he will always be known as Silver Pozzoli.
Silvio, or now Silver, didn’t lose his head, and in those years he still continued to lend his voice to the choirs of important songs, and I only mention Self Control by Raf, and Tarzan Boy by Baltimora.
Around my Dream is a resounding success in the discos of continental Europe, and Silver Pozzoli becomes one of the important names of Italo-disco. The song also has a video, but it wasn’t very well known and all in all the song went equally towards success on the radio and, indeed, in discos. After all, italo-disco productions were often extremely cheap, and often the only possibility of shooting a video was to rely on friends, acquaintances, parents’ homes, and not always professional footage, perhaps with truly primordial graphic effects.
The video for Around my Dream shows, in addition to Silver Pozzoli, a girl who at the beginning of the video is one of the many who try to interview the star as he arrives at a recording studio. Shortly after, however, we understand that something happened between the two, because we see them together in a passport photo.
In the meantime, the girl seems to have made a career (while he is weirdly training in a wooden attic), and in the end we even see her take a private plane… and where does she go? But she’s again meeting Silver Pozzoli, of course!
In the decades to come Silver Pozzoli will continue to be an excellent vocalist for almost all the great Italian singers, and for many other themes and songs… but only italo-disco and the magic of the 80s have allowed him to travel around his dream!
Silver Pozzoli on Wikipedia
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