Cover: | Bella da morire cover a.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Homo Sapiens |
Album: | Bella da morire |
B-Side: | Dolce la sera |
Released: | March 1977 |
Genre: | Pop ballad |
Length: | 4:20 |
Label: | Ri-Fi |
Producer: | Renato Pareti |
Prev Title: | Io e te stasera |
Prev Year: | 1976 |
Next Title: | Due mele |
Next Year: | 1978 |
"Bella da morire" ('Drop-dead gorgeous') is a 1977 song written by Renato Pareti and Alberto Salerno and performed by pop-rock band Homo Sapiens. It won the 27th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival and was a major commercial success, becoming the band's signature song.
The song has been described as "consisting of minimalist pictorial details [...] over a subtle melody, embroidered on a light background of guitars and keyboards that serves to launch [...] a catchy refrain"[1] and as "full of falsettos and banal rhymes, certainly not shining in terms of originality".[2]