''Buscadero'' is a monthly music magazine published in Italy by Edizioni l'ultimo Buscadero Srl. It features

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and was founded in 1980 by Aldo Pedron, Paolo Carù and others after they split from the editorial staff of the magazine ''

Il mucchio selvaggio ''Il Mucchio Selvaggio'' () 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'. History and profile The magazine was founded by , Paolo Car� ...

''. Aldo Pedron was the editor-in-chief of ''Buscadero'' from its founding until 1992. It is published in the Milanese city of

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. It is one of the oldest Italian music periodicals still being published, and has been called the principal source in Italy for aficionados of American music. The name is a tribute to the film of

Sam Peckinpah David Samuel Peckinpah (; February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter. His 1969 Western epic '' The Wild Bunch'' received two Academy Award nominations and was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Instit ...

, ''

Junior Bonner ''Junior Bonner'' is a 1972 American contemporary Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Joe Don Baker, and Ida Lupino. The film focuses on a veteran rodeo rider as he returns to his hometown of ...

'', known in Italian as ''L'ultimo Buscadero''. The first issue featured

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. Among the writers who have appeared in the magazine over the years are

Guido Chiesa Guido Chiesa (born 1959) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Turin, Chiesa graduated in philosophy and letters with a thesis in cinema, then he moved to New York City where he was the correspondent of several music magazines, but ...

, Cico Casartelli, Alfredo Marziano, Stefano Bianchi, Piero Tarantola, Marco Grompi, Adelmo Quadrio, Giancarlo Susanna, Raffaele Galli, and Davide Sapienza. The term "buscadero" originally meant "one who searches" and was applied to lawmen, and then later to the outlaws for whom they searched.

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took it one step further and applied the term to a gunbelt and holster rig. In Italy the term came to epitomize the

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of the

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, and thus the Peckinpah film was renamed ''L'ultimo Buscadero'' for its Italian release.

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