![]() While the public loved it, the Gucci company was less enthralled. I met Maurizio at a party and he fell madly in love with me. A tip-off led to her arrest in 1997, along with four others, including the hitman. But, without evidence, the crime went unsolved for nearly two years. She had openly threatened to kill Gucci after their split. Reggiani, dubbed the “Liz Taylor of luxury labels” in the 1970s and 80s, was an immediate suspect. This was elegant Milan, not mob-riddled Naples, and execution-style killings of the city’s glamorous elite were unknown. The gunning down of 46-year-old Maurizio Gucci one morning in the red-carpeted foyer of his office, and the subsequent murder trial, captivated Italy in the late 1990s. Lady Gucci, as she used to be known, was back. The paparazzi couldn’t believe their luck. One of her first acts of freedom was to go shopping on Via Monte Napoleone – Milan’s Bond Street – decked out in gaudy jewels and movie-star sunglasses, with a large pet macaw perched on her shoulder. “Naturally, Patrizia was only joking…”Įven before the impromptu “confession”, persuading Reggiani to remain low-key was a lost cause. It was terrible,” she says, putting her head in her hands. She invites me inside, and I get the impression she really needs to talk. “Oh, mamma mia, it’s not easy,” says Brunero, a stylish 40-something. I survived all the years in captivity’: Reggiani in court in 1998. Brunero and her business-partner husband have now become Reggiani’s de facto minders, tasked with ensuring the 67-year-old sticks to her parole and quietly rebuilds her life as a regular citizen. “I’ve never worked in my life and I don’t intend to start now,” she told her lawyer.īozart, with its Renaissance-style premises full of sparkling necklaces and chandeliers, was obviously an acceptable compromise. She turned down her first offer of release in 2011, according to the Italian press, because the very idea of working horrified her. Sentenced to 26 years on appeal, Reggiani was required to find a job as a condition of her parole. She’s off work with a bad back,” says Alessandra Brunero, co-owner of Bozart, a Milanese costume jewellery firm that has employed Reggiani as a “design consultant” since April 2014. Understandably then, when I try to find her, Reggiani’s inner circle doesn’t seem keen to let her near another journalist. All of the material here is terrific, though the omission of "Bold as Brass," "Time for a Change," "Charley," and "Crosswords" - four of the better-known songs from that era and live favorites throughout the band's career - seems odd.“My eyesight is not so good,” she lobbed back. EMI Europe's The Collection (subtitled on the back cover as "The Best of the Early Years") is predictably limited to the two albums they have rights to, as well as one single, "Another Great Divide." As far as "early years" collections goes, this one isn't bad, with 15 of the 19 EMI-controlled tracks and substantial liner notes. This left the Split Enz catalog (minus the first and last album) divided between two of the major labels - Universal Music handling the better-known new wave era, and EMI Music handling their earlier, lesser-known, more prog rock-oriented material - and making a career-spanning collection outside of their homeland an impossibility. In the early '90s, the EMI Music Group purchased Chrysalis. In 1990, Polygram purchased A&M Records, and by the late '90s, Polygram was bought by Seagrams, which incorporated the label into their record division under the name Universal Music. ![]() A modified version of Frenzy was issued by A&M in 1981. At the time they redefined themselves as a new wave band with 1980's True Colours, A&M became their worldwide label for their next four albums, but not their final album, See Ya Round, which was issued only in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By their fourth album, 1979's Frenzy, the Enz were dropped from Chrysalis, leaving them only with Mushroom to distribute the record in Australia and New Zealand. The band stayed with the Mushroom label in Australia and New Zealand, a relationship that would continue throughout their career. Following their 1975 debut, Mental Notes, Split Enz signed a worldwide distribution deal with Chrysalis Records for their next two LPs: 1976's Second Thoughts, which Chrysalis confusingly titled Mental Notes (even using a modified version of the Mental Notes cover art instead of the cover for Second Thoughts), and 1977's Dizrythmia.
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