![]() November 1980 issue, featuring
Bruce Springsteen | |
Categories | Music magazine |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Stemax |
Founder | Max Stefani, Paolo Carù and Aldo Pedron |
Founded | 1977 |
Final issue | 2018 |
Country | Italy |
Based in | Rome |
Language | Italian |
Il Mucchio Selvaggio ( lit. 'The Wild Bunch') was an Italian monthly music magazine published between 1977 and 2018. It has been described as 'a piece of Italy's cultural, social and political history'. [1]
The magazine was founded by Max Stefani , Paolo Carù and Aldo Pedron in Rome in 1977 as a monthly music magazine, mostly focused on rock music. [2] Initially centered on American and British classic rock, it gradually broadened its scope to include new trends such as punk and new wave, as well as the Italian rock scene. [2]
In 1980, the co-founders Carù and Pedron abandoned the magazine to fund a rival magazine, Buscadero. [2] Another major split happened in the late 1980s, when most of the staff left the magazine to join Velvet, a competing magazine founded by the former Mucchio collaborators Maurizio Bianchini, Federico Guglielmi and Eddy Cilia , but in spite of it, the magazine kept selling strong. [2] In September 1996, the magazine underwent a major reorganization, becoming weekly, and adopting a smaller format at a lower price. [2] In 2001, Federico Guglielmi, who in the meanwhile had reprised his collaboration, launched a quarterly spin-off Mucchio Extra, which was published until mis-2010s. [2] Starting from 2005, the magazine reprised its monthly frequence and its classical format. [2]
Following the abandon of its founder Max Stefani in 2011, and a scandal involving the public funds that the magazine had received and which had been used for personal purposes, [2] [3] the magazine went into crisis, eventually ending its publications in 2018 after 41 years and 767 issues. [1] [2] [4]