Reflections of a stormy petrel

Ah, yes, and the two Italian songs are also both about twenty years old - but Viva l'Italia in particular is more popular than ever. They were written in the shadow of the horrors of mafia and terrorist violence in the seventies, with a growing sense that we were all in the same boat and that there was something worth saving about Italy and freedom; and it has come back to popularity because of the increasingly degenerate Berlusconi-Bossi "leadership".