Michael Halve (1966) falls in love with the Italo genre in the early eighties. The passion for collecting keeps him in its grip and the promotion of the music becomes a mission.
Crazy about Italo is about experiencing a passion. About the goosebumps you get when someone plays a crazy record that you don’t know. About the joy of finding that copy that was still missing from your collection and about the disappointment of finding a record store that turns out to be closed. How the obsessive hunt for records puts pressure on family life or holiday atmosphere. Because you must have that one record. That one record, which is most likely in that one record store. Or not.
This limitless urge is typical for every collector and not reserved exclusively for Italo fans. As a result, the jazz collector and philatelist will also recognize themselves. Still, the book is most interesting for lovers of Italo, because they know who Albert One, Fred Ventura and Mauro Farina are.
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