“What the hell was Luca doing in New York?”

The most pertinent question in the world has been asked, that of the title Roberto Pettinato. Gustavo Palmer, the inventor of the Pinamar night, says that “the men stuck in Fiorucci”, a verse from The blonde imbecile, it’s for him. This story mixes the invention of a Creole jeans, the alleged disorientation of a rocker lost in the trendy club and the truth about why you broke up.

Furthermore, Sumo’s most famous song – a song full of legal disputes – would be 40 years old.

“It had nothing to do with the disgust that our society caused him. But what the hell was Luca doing in New York? I asked him once and he replied that the text was exactly like that, that it was part of the conversation with the mine. She approached him and asked him why you exploded. I don’t think Luca even told her: ‘because your company is disgusting’. He didn’t tell her…”.

Word of Pettinato, Sumo saxophonist. According to the author of the book Luca is mine, the leader of the legendary band “didn’t have two faces”. For him Luca was like Tanguito, like Miguel Abuelo. Guys who only knew one way and hit the accelerator. “They weren’t the ones you say… ‘ah, but in the end she bought an apartment in Recoleta.’”

However, for some unidentified reason, Luca went – or went – to New York in the period in which this nightclub was the fashion paradise par excellence.

The City, still in existence, opened in December 1980 with a recital by the Police. We were “special correspondents” of this newspaper when it turned 40. The first thing we did was try to find out where Luca was going when he wrote about “the blonde, stupid, tanned, boring…”. The “dumb” or curious blonde who asked him about her badass, the first famous badass of national rock.

In other words, Sumo’s famous song is set in a nightclub. I mean, Luca was as bohemian and different as you want, but he would dance Last train to Londonof the Electric Light Orchestra, and I It was made to love youof Kiss, in the same place as Susana Giménez and the hunks of the time, Ricardo Darín and Carlín Calvo.

Everything is very strange. An unfathomable mystery. What was the boy doing? Tomorrow at Abasto there, in the City, the enclave where the word “concheto” is said to have been invented?

The eyes of a reporter

If you pay attention to the texts, Luca behaves like a prepared and exquisite chronicler. A certain distance appears between your presence and what is happening around you. Was he here? No, further. The bar is as long as Route 2. Here? No, no, a little further. The reporter’s idea was to know exactly where Luca had leaned. Where he had the conversation with the blonde, in his opinion, “a moron”.

He was the ignored author of Sumo’s best-known theme until recently. After years and court documents, The blonde imbecile has added a new name to the paternity that has appeared, since its registration in 1985, composed of Luca Prodan, Germán Daffunchio and Diego Arnedo. Geniol: singer, clown, composer, former circus owner, crazy, cute. Formally, Héctor Rosa.

Luca and Geniol lived together in Alsina 451, the San Telmo neighborhood in Buenos Aires, the villa where Luca ended up leaving us forever.

In reality it wasn’t a club “on the corner,” as the first famous rock star sang, “but a bar across the street,” Geniol warns us. In front of the famous nightclub. «It must have taken less than half an hour. We did it on paper.”

And he said again: “Luca was very critical. He had an idea about everyone. I couldn’t even see Charly García. Less about those from Soda Stereo. But the favorite victim was a certain Hari B, who was the creator of Los Violadores, Luca was angry with him, he mistreated him whenever he could and that night, when we left New York, he asked me to write against him, from there that part of the pseudopunkito was born, with the finished accent. …”