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Altobelli

by Lost in the woods

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Hazy summer dream pop dripping with 80s nostalgia

My boyhood hero Alessandro Altobelli scoring for Italy in the 1982 World Cup final, my own inept attempts on the school football pitch, a long, hot, train journey spanning the length of Italy, a beach holiday on the cusp of adulthood...

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Lyrics:
I have recollections of a slow Italian train
From deep down South in the bootheel, to the North where the foot goes in
That was the summer
That was the train
That was the summer I was 17

Sandro Altobelli is what they called me at school
I was tall like him and with curly hair, we both ignored the offside rule
I would haunt the penalty box
looking for a lucky touch
Sometimes I scored but mostly I sucked

That was the summer, that was the summer
That was the summer, that was the summer

I spent that summer on an Adriatic beach
I was just one of so many kids with a future within reach
That was the summer
That was the beach
That was the summer I was 17

Sandro Altobelli he scored in ‘82
Conti’s cross to the penalty spot and a left foot shot so true
I dunno what he’s doing these days
But sometimes I think of him
How he looked straight at me when the ball went in

That was the summer, that was the summer
That was the summer, that was the summer
That was the summer, that was the summer
That was the summer, that was the summer

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released March 5, 2022
Written - Anthony J Oliver ©2022
Arranged - Anthony J Oliver and Sid Innes
Produced by Sid Innes


Anthony J Oliver: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Sid Innes: Drums, Bass, Electric XII Guitar & Backing Vocals


Recorded at Radvert Studios. Scotland
www.radvert.co.uk ©2022

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Lost in the woods Forres, UK

Listen carefully and you can trace my journey from my native Italy, via Oxford and Edinburgh, to Venice, back to Edinburgh, relocating to Madrid, onward to Santiago de Compostela, over to London, up to the Scottish Borders, down to Devon and just now arrived in the Scottish Highlands. Am I a wandering troubadour, questing endlessly for the elusive flame of song, or am I just Lost in the Woods? ... more

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