I Pooh

Between thousands of groups (named then "complessi beat") active in Italy during the sixties, only two are still working now and are offering their music to their fans, without any interruption since the starting years. One of them were I Pooh (a word that does not mean anything in Italian, and probably not even in other languages, maybe inspired by Winnie The Pooh character, or it's a words joke). The other ones were, as previously said, I Nomadi.
I Pooh started their activity in Bologna as Jaguars, and changed their name when they published their first disc, a not remarkable summersong called Bikini Beat (1966). The line-up had been formed by musicians already active in other groups of that period, no one of them in the personnel of the group today, even if Roby Facchinetti, the leader of tne group from the seventies up to now, had joined the group in the same year, replacing Bob Gillot, the keyboardist.

In their first period the Pooh proposed a mix of covers and protest songs, as many others group of the sixties in the peninsula. Their smash hit arrived however a couple of year later, in 1968, with an original song, very romantic, about the private diary of a fourteen years girl (Piccola Katy, Little Katy). The following years were of momentanely eclipse, as many others beat groups, but at the beginning of the new decade they reached again the top of the success with another romantic andmelodic song, Tanta voglia di lei (a strong wish of her) became one of the classical songs in Italy. Not an isolated hit, because the Pooh have succeeded to enter the top-10 with many other songs in the same style (Pensiero, thought, Un attimo ancora, yet another moment, and many others) and furthermore they have developed and consolidated a very appreciated live act, that gave them in the following decades the leadership within the Italian concerts in Italy. The Pooh was for a very long period the only group inItaly capable to fill a big stadium.

The Pooh have continued the activities with great success, almost ever, renewing also their repertory year by year, including the new tendencies in music, and they are still on stage.

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