With this group, Savelli released four 45s for Nuova Enigmistica Tascabile ; furthermore, the same musicians, renamed the group I Guerrieri , recorded another 45 for Carosello , Il principe guerriero/L’ultima volta in, the A-side of which is a cover of a song by The Shadows from the soundtrack of the film The War Lord , starring Charlton Heston . After a few tours, with the decline of beat music, the group disbanded.

The Seventies: The Ancestors and the Extras

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“Gli Antenati” were founded by Valerio Barbi and Federico Frigerio; they discovered Savelli Valter in a nightclub in Florence and formed the first Antenati with Valerio on bass, Frigerio on guitar, Savelli on keyboards and Massimo Martini on drums. Subsequently, the new Antenati were formed (composed of Savelli, Moreno Signorini , Massimo Martin, Pino Pini and Federico Frigerio), a band that in 1974 released the 45 rpm Il mondo di Lucia/Dialogo . From the fusion of the Antenati with another Florentine band, the Bob Rose Family (with Bob Rose , pseudonym of Roberto Rosati , on guitars, Carlo Felice Marcovecchio , formerly of the Telstars and I Califfi, on drums and Laura Landi on lead vocals), and the addition of Riccardo Azzurri, the Extra were born in 1978 . Thanks to Marcovecchio and Rosati, who had played on the album Solo , they were noticed by Claudio Baglioni , who became their producer and chose them as his backing band for the 1979 tour .

Extra released two 45s: the first contained two Billy Joel covers , Come sei ( Just The Way You Are ) and Vengo via ( Movin’ Out ), with Italian lyrics by Cucaio (Baglioni’s pseudonym). The following 45 also contained a cover on the A-side, Maria Maddalena (by Juan Carlos Calderon , once again translated by Baglioni), while the song on the back, La mia canzone per te , was an original by Baglioni with music by Bruno Mosti and Roberto Rosati.

1980s and 1990s: Session man with Claudio Baglioni and other activities

After the breakup of Extra , a collaboration began that saw Walter Savelli participate as pianist in all of Claudio Baglioni’s albums and tours from 1981 to 2000. He performed together with Riccardo Azzurri during the 1983 Sanremo Festival . Parallel to his activity as a musician and collaborator of Baglioni, he began an educational project and published a series of books on music education:

• Rock Piano Method (Ed. Berben)
• The Modern Piano
• 20 Rhythmic Studies for Modern Piano

The collaboration with Baglioni resumed in 2003 for the eight stadium concerts of the Tutto in un Abbraccio tour and with the participation in the fifth edition of O’ Scià in 2006. In 2004 , together with the comedians of Zelig , he published the book No Guru. Te la do io la tecnologia! with Arnoldo Mondadori Editore .

Death

He died on March 27, 2026 following complications from surgery, receiving a posthumous dedication in verse from Claudio Baglioni. [ 1 ]