buon compleanno caro gio'!!!!!!!!! ...aproposito di compleanni...you
remind me to another special birthday.....
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Da: ramallo@???
Data: 22-apr-2008 4.32 PM
A: "Giovanni
Pollastri"<giovanni.pollastri@???>
Cc: "Police"<Police@mailman.
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Ogg: Re: [Police] Today is ILLEGAL TALES 20TH BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday Giovanni! It´s been a great work you have been doing
during these years. I am gratefull for what you have done for us, the
fans, especially through the sc.net site.
Thanks!
Joe
Giovanni
Pollastri wrote:
> Today is ILLEGAL TALES 20TH BIRTHDAY!
>
> On April
20th and 21st 1988 Sting was in Milano for a couple of nights
> at the
Arena (...Nothing Like The Sun Tour).
> This was considered the X-day
to launch what was called then Sting's
> Magazine from their creators,
a new fanzine totally devoted to Sting &
> The Police.
> I joined them
from the first day they issued it, even if I didn't work
> for that
first issue, I started working from the second one issued a
> couple
of months later, but I decided to join them from that day; it
> was a
mutual 'need'.
> To tell the truth, the creators kept themselves out of
the magazine
> after three issues (money, brothers, is always a matter
of money), so
> I decided to keep everything on my shoulders and give
it a longer life
> (passion, brothers, passion).
> From Sting's
Magazine it became ILLEGAL TALES, as it was about the
> three of them,
not only Sting.
> Month by month and year by year, it became more and
more well known,
> not only from the members of the band, but from the
record company as
> well, from the management in UK (I will never say
enough thanks to
> Tina, Dave and Wendy, and later on to everyone at
The Police
> management) and from Tv stations in Italy as well as
radios.
> The computer era with internet made me wanna open a website
> (www.illegaltales.com from 1998) and abandon the paper version.
>
Illegal Tales brought me to have Sting on tv talking about the fanzine
> and his records, brought me to collaborate with Andy Summers on his
> several italian tours, being on tv playing with him ... too many
>
memories my friends...
> The success of Illegal Tales on the web, drove
me to work on a
> specific web for Stewart Copeland...you all know how
it went....
>
> I still take a look at some of those earlier efforts on
paper....
>
> So thank you ILLEGAL TALES, 20 years by my side...not too
many
> fanzines grow up in such a fabulous way!
> And thanks to all I
met because of that little creation that became
> bigger than what I
could expect!
> Ciao ciao
> Giovanni
>
>
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