Pooh

Pooh is an Italian pop band formed in 1966 in Bologna. Over the course of their career, Pooh has sold over 100 million records. Some of the band's most popular songs include "Parsifal", "Dove comincia il sole" and "Pensiero". History 1960s The first nucleus of the future Pooh was born as Jaguars in 1962 in Bologna from the meeting between the drummer Valerio Negrini and the guitarist Mauro Bertoli. In 1964 he arrives at the first stable formation: the aforementioned Negrini and Bertoli plus Vittorio Costa (vocals), Giancarlo Cantelli (bass) and Bruno Barraco (rhythm guitar and keyboards). In 1965 Vittorio Costa leaves to continue his medical studies while Bob Gillot (keyboards) and Mario Goretti on rhythm guitar enter. During his stay in the Goretti group he was second guitarist and singer, but also bassist, harmonica player and accordionist, as well as curator of the choirs on the albums Per those like us and Contrasto. Gilberto Faggioli takes the place of Cantelli. In January 1966 the Negrini-Bertoli-Goretti-Faggioli-Gillot quintet gets a contract with Vedette, Armando Sciascia's record company which, having lost Equipe 84 at that time, is looking for a new rock group. Since there is a Roman formation with the same name (the Jaguars) that has already recorded a single, a new name must be found; this was provided by the secretary of Sciascia himself, [3] Aliki Andris, a fan of the Winnie-the-Pooh teddy bear. [3] (A stylized teddy bear would appear on the covers of numerous vinyls up to the threshold of the 1990s.) [3]