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