A boy like me

Gianni Morandi

In 1966, the popular Italian singer Gianni Morandi released the single “C’era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones,” translated as “There was a Boy like Me who Loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.” The story of the celebrated song coming into being is a familiar one of happenstance and luck. At the Italian Song website, Sarah Annunziato has translated Morandi’s tale of the song’s origins which he’d posted to Facebook in 2013. “It was the summer of 1966, wh...