| Vita spericolata | |
| Cover: | Vita Spericolata_resize.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Vasco Rossi |
| Album: | Bollicine |
| B-Side: | Mi piaci perché |
| Released: | 24 January 1983 |
| Label: | Carosello Records |
| Prev Title: | Una splendida giornata |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | Brava Giulia |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
"Vita spericolata" (transl. "Reckless life") is a 1983 song composed by Vasco Rossi (lyrics) and (music) and performed by Vasco Rossi.
The song had a gestation of about an year; it was initially presented by composer Ferro with English lyrics, and in an early draft it was a love song about a girl named Licia. Eventually, Rossi chose to reprise the same theme already explored in previous singles "Siamo solo noi" and "Vado al massimo", namely a celebration of anticonformism and of freedom from all schemes and conventions.
The song premiered at the 33rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, where it ranked penultimate.[1] It eventually turned out to be a long-selling hit and Rossi's consacration.[2] [1] [3] It has been described as a "manifesto of human individualism taken to the extreme between transgression, boredom, melancholy and the determination to live without limits or schedules".[1]
Cover versions of the song include those recorded by Francesco De Gregori, Massimo Ranieri and Thelma Houston with an English-language version titled "My Life is Mine", lyrics by Jean Rich in the 1994 album Thelma Houston (Fonit Cetra - CDL 378). Gino Paoli reprised its refrain in his hit "Quattro amici".[1] [3]