Patty Pravo, the girl is back: "I've lived so many lives together."

The Piper Girl, they called her in the 1960s, when her voice and image became the symbol of the Italian version of that wave of youthful rebellion centered in the hippie scene of London's Carnaby Street. In Italy, it revolved around the Piper Club in Rome, where Patty Pravo was the undisputed star. A few decades later, and after a dazzling career featuring hit records and memorable encounters, the singer will perform on Tuesday, August 5th in Porretta Terme (Rufus Thomas Park, at 9 p.m.) as part of the "E Buonanotte ai suonatori" festival.

Mrs. Pravo, the name of the tour, 'Ho prova tutto' is the title of your latest single, written by Francesco Bianconi, the leader of Baustelle.

"A real surprise. I confess I didn't know who Baustelle and Bianconi were; there was a long and intense courtship on his part. He's always been a fan of mine, and when he sent me the lyrics to the song, I was amazed; it's the most autobiographical song I've ever been offered. Bianconi showed he knows me better than I know myself. We've never met, but it's as if our lives run parallel."

A song that talks about his vision of life.

"A constant mix of seeking pleasure and paying attention to what's happening around us. We can't ignore it. I come from an era in which social criticism affected every moment of existence. And we singers certainly couldn't back down. As I sing in the song, we must 'Keep loving even though we know the future is now dying.'"

There is also a reference to Jimi Hendrix, who you met there, like many other great personalities of culture and music.

It was an unrepeatable era, sometimes I think it was an astral conjunction that, just as it came, will never return. Hendrix, as the lyrics of the song say, I let you write, meets me at the Piper, it was May '69, after one of his legendary concerts. We spent a night cruising around Rome in a Fiat 500. And then I remember extraordinary people, like Anita Pallenberg, the beautiful model who was with my friend Mario Schifano, whom she left to start up first with Brian Jones and then Keith Richard, both of the Rolling Stones. So many artists, like Tano Festa and Franco Angeli. Living immersed in that dimension meant being exposed to so many cultural stimuli that I was able to live not one but several lives simultaneously.

It's difficult to make a comparison with what happens today.

"Impossible, and it's not so much a question of the absence of masters, but of the end of that climate of sharing, of exchange, that was born spontaneously. Homes were incredible creative laboratories, and Italy was the center of the universe, a primacy we have lost. I'm thinking specifically of Mario Schifano's Roman home, where I met the Rolling Stones. For them, being in Rome, absorbing that climate of constant experimentation, was more important than living in London. And I was there, it was a blessing, and who I was and who I am is all in the songs I sing. How I've tried everything."