Armando Gallo (born January 24, 1944) is an Italian journalist, photographer and book publisher. Gallo has been a

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since 1967, when he met

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at the listening party of their '' Sgt. Pepper Lonely Heart Club Band.'' He wrote a cover story for the Italian magazine ''Ciao Big''. Inspired by this experience, he left his career as an architecture designer to become the London correspondent for the Italian music magazine ''

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'', covering the events in the English pop and rock scene. In the early 1970s Gallo met

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before their first Italian tour and became a good friend of the band. His most high-profile work is a book about the band entitled ''Genesis: The Evolution of a Rock Band''. Originally published in 1978, it chronicles the band's early days – a period of time never covered by any other biographical source up to that point, including the band members' full names. One notable fan of the book was

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, who was spotted reading it on the steps of his home in Kingston. The book was reprinted and expanded in 1980 with the new title ''I Know What I Like''. By the early 1990s, after Genesis had reached their peak in popularity, the book was no longer available. As there was no sign it would ever be reprinted, zealous Genesis fans retyped out the text of the book as ASCII text in the early 1990s, but when plans for a reprint were announced, the files were taken down from the internet. In September 2014 the book was published on iTunes. Gallo also went on to put together several books on Genesis founding member

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. In 1982, with his brother Claudio, he formed Fratelli Gallo Editori in Italy, editing and publishing over 40 music books as well as the monthly magazine ''PIX Photorock''. Gallo has also directed the U2 music video "Even Better than the Real Thing" from the ''

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Gallo has worked as a photojournalist in

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for the last 35 years as correspondent of the Italian weekly magazine ''

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''. He is a member of the

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and as such is a voting member for the

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. Gallo is currently collaborating with Italian magazines ''

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'' and '' Oggi''.

Bibliography

* ''Genesis: The Evolution of a Rock Band'', Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1978. (paper) or 0 283 98439 2 (cloth). 145 pages. * ''Genesis: I Know What I Like'' D.I.Y. Books, Los Angeles, 1980. Hardcover and leatherbound edition. (New softcover edition published in 1987, ). * ''Genesis: From One Fan to Another'', Omnibus Press, 1984. . Softcover, . * ''Peter Gabriel'', Omnibus Press, 1986. Softcover, .

References

External links

Official website
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