Okay, This Is A Really Weird One

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Normally I might post something like this in my "Music You've Probably Never Heard" series. But that is generally reserved for songs I at least like. Albeit some are still weird, perhaps. But the key is they are songs I enjoy listening to, that reside on a playlist on Spotify that I listen to often. This would not be such a song. I came across this guy during one of my many travels through the World Wide Web (do they even call it that anymore?). His back story is rather interesting, if not to say the guy is more than a bit of a spectacle and strange—well, he was. He died in 2022 at age 67. His name is Richard Benson. He was a renowned Italian guitarist in his hay day, only to be racked by debilitating arthritis, and eventually fell off, or jumped off a bridge (some say it was a suicide attempt) and became more disabled after that. Despite his inability to play guitar like he could, he continued to perform, becoming a bit of a joke. Audiences would throw yogurt and eggs and even raw chickens and bags of flour at him on stage, and he would just keep on "performing" despite what came at him. This song, "I Nani," is best described as haunting and weird. I have no idea what he is singing since it is in Italian. But I have to admit, having been exposed to some very interesting music, this one really stands out as one of the strangest things I have ever encountered.