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“Stefano D’Orazio was the brother that I, an only child, did not have. When you lose someone so dear to you, you suffer to death, but you don’t immediately realize what happened.” Dodi Battaglia, guitarist of The Pooh, remembers like this with theANSA the group’s historic drummer, who died last night in Rome. “It is a tragedy. The tears of this moment are only a fraction of those we will shed when we go to the office where he was, when we see a white Jaguar like the one he had or when we see another drummer spinning around with sticks like him.”
The pain is aggravated when thinking of the friend who dies isolated in bed due to Covid-19. Stefano wasn’t feeling well, but he didn’t seem so alarming. He was interned in Rome in a health center. I was infected with this virus, but like many other people … Until three hours ago I was waiting for an update message and instead I received this blow that broke my legs. It is devastating to imagine him dying alone. I am outraged by those who deny or minimize Covid ”, confesses Dodi.
“The bond of these 50 years, the things we have done together, have united us perhaps even more than a fraternal bond of blood,” he adds. With the other Poohs, Red Canzian, Roby Facchinetti and Riccardo Fogli, we cry on the phone tonight. Among the infinite memories that unite Dodi with Stefano there is a song entitled ‘A true friend’, of which Battaglia had written the music and D’Orazio the text. “He and Valerio Negrini wrote beautiful words to Pooh songs. To do it as they did, you must have great depth. Stefano was a Roman, he exuded great humanity and goodness. Knowing his parents – continues Dodi – I can say that he he had brought the best of each one: he had an extraordinary mother and a father of integrity. Stefano was a person with many virtues: transparency, honesty, sensitivity, intelligence “.
D’Orazio was the first to leave the Poohs. “Unlike my colleagues – recalls Dodi – after trying by all means to make him stay, about ten days later I gave up. I thought it was the right choice. I made this reasoning: if he is my brother (and he doesn’t for running away at 60 with a Bulgarian dancer) I evidently made a decision that I have to respect. A true friend does this. So I told him ‘if you don’t feel good with us, be happy, be a Buddhist monk, open an ice cream shop in Torvaianica, do what you want. ‘” Even when the other Poohs weren’t there, Stefano was there. “He came for me to Dodi day in Bellaria. He took the car and joined me with other friends like Mario Biondi, Gigi D’Alessio, Il Volo. He was really a true friend, a brother with me and I hope – he concludes – to be. I was also for him. ”
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