Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance.
In a career that spanned decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moved on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music making. Brown performed in concerts, first making his rounds across the Chitlin' Circuit, and then across the country and later around the world, along with appearing in shows on television and in movies. Although he contributed much to the music world through his hitmaking, Brown holds the record as the artist who charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.
For many years, Brown's touring show was one of the most extravagant productions in American popular music. At the time of Brown's death, his band included three guitarists, two bass guitar players, two drummers, three horns and a percussionist. The bands that he maintained during the late 1960s and 1970s were of comparable size, and the bands also included a three-piece amplified string section that played during ballads. Brown employed between 40 and 50 people for the James Brown Revue, and members of the revue traveled with him in a bus to cities and towns all over the country, performing upwards of 330 shows a year with almost all of the shows as one-nighters. In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1990 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
(Facchinetti-Negrini)
Devo stare attento e so perché
rivisitando col pensiero gli anni miei fin qui
da un po' di tempo io
mi difendo segno è
che al mio mondo
nuove ombre da l'età.
Ripercorro a volte certe vie
di nuovi eroi riveste i suoi silenzi la città
e io non ci credo più
seguo forse solo ormai l'esperienza
quanti dubbi ho però.
Ho una casa sono un uomo
fra la gente quanti amici miei
si sono arresi.
Già vicini
fino a ieri in cadute
e in risvegli ormai sono stranieri.
Piccola donna dieci anni di meno
con la tua rabbia orgogliosa nel seno
mentre mi scarti e mi dici "sei fuori"
credi che i tuoi siano giorni migliori.
Questa sera hai detto che verrai
e nella mia esperienza sono certo che verrai
ma so per altro che
ti nascondi qui da me
non mi senti
solo il corpo tuo mi dai.
Sei nemica
mi rinneghi
qui mi segui
nel tuo mondo no
sono nessuno.
Dalla tua parte
come una sfida
mi viene amore
ed anche se non vuoi
è proprio amore.
Ti sei mai chiesta
chi inventava
questo tuo mondo
nel sessantasei
che apri la strada.
Guardami adesso
senza paura
odiami solo
se un giorno tu vedrai