To whoever took the time to pull these together and upload them here, I just want to say thank you. I stumbled across Patrick Cowley a few years ago thanks to the HBOMax series Looking. Since then, I've been a little obsessed with him. There's so little out there about him, this was a wonderful find to see 3 different mini-docs about this talented guy.
As correctly pointed out by @fausto6029, Den Harrow, a project by R. Turatti and M. Chieregato, already existed in 1983, featuring the tracks "To Meet Me" (1983), "A Taste of Love" (1983), and "Mad Desire" (1984). It makes you wonder... why isn't the whole story told? My grandmother always used to say: if only part of the truth is told, it's done in bad faith. The first two tracks from 1983 were sung by Chuck Rolando, an American and the voice of the Passengers, who has the honor of still living in Italy. The third track from 1984, "Mad Desire," which became a phenomenal hit in Italy and Europe, was sung by the very Italian Silvio "Silver" Pozzoli, a great musical artist even today. It was precisely with the song "Mad Desire" that Turatti and Chieregato began to use the image of Stefano Zandri. The story is a bit different, then: while it is true that from 1985 onwards, all the records used the voice of Tom Hooker, it is certainly "true" that Den Harrow "borrowed" the voice of at least one other singer (but since he also re-sang the songs from 1983 in various performances, the two previous songs can be included in the "theft"). Great Italian and German producers of disco/dance music (does anyone remember cases like Milli Vanilli or Boney M?) used to put together a functioning voice with a functioning image, just like a lyricist that works, a sound engineer that works, etc. The studio singers are called "session musicians," and Tom Hooker, instead of being paid by the hour, was paid on a percentage basis, which is why he can afford a huge house and his white Ferrari. If he still earns money from those records today, it's due to all the work done, including that of other artists who worked on the Den Harrow project. In contrast, Silvio Pozzoli, Chuck Rolando, and many others have the dignity not to engage in "tragicomedies." Cheers from an Italian who also knows a bit of English!
si tralascia un piccolo particolare, Tom Hooker entrò nel progetto nell'85 quando Den Harrow aveva gia fatto 3 singoli tutti belli tra cui Mad Desire, praticamente era già un treno in corsa.. la pantomima di Tam Harrow se la poteva anche risparmiare..
Giorgio Conti (Atrium) uploaded this video himself on Facebook. I copied it from there, I have no further data. Here is his FB page: facebook.com/p/GIORGIO-CONTI-DJ-100063464955997/
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