Italy Celebrates Marilyn with Music “Marilyn 2012”

Italy is on the front row to celebrate Marilyn, with a musical tribute originating from a dream in which she appeared and whispered a few notes of the song.

Marilyn materialized in the dream of a lucky composer: this composer is Màlleus, a famous Italian Amanuensis known all over the world for its Scriptorium, where he practices the ancient art of calligraphy with 12 pupils, creating faithful reproductions of historical vellum and pure gold miniatures (for more info, please visit http://www.malleus.it).

For the YouTube video of the song, click here.

The story begun in 1976, when Marilyn Monroe appeared to Màlleus in a dream, while on his military service, whispering him a few notes of a melody and asking him to compose a song for her. Fearing he might have forgotten the tune, Màlleus recorded the song, using a guitar and a recorder, as soon as he woke up the next morning. Unfortunately though, at the end of his military service, once back at home, the tape mysteriously disappeared.  It was recovered only a few months ago, in the basement of Màlleus castle, after 36 years from that dream.

“Marilyn 2012” is a gift that Màlleus and the artists who produced song and video made to celebrate Marilyn ever-lasting beauty, on the 50th anniversary of her death. It is a song with a country-rock feel, with English lyrics, telling of a journey into life, searching for those dreams that led Marilyn in a lonesome place where fame and celebrity were her only companions. Then, the oblivion: when the emptiness of existence had corroded her soul, Marilyn plunged into the embrace of life.

A far-away Marilyn, but yet so strongly present as the light of her beautiful face and memory still shines upon us, thanks to her movies, music and songs she left us. The song is performed by the wonderful voice of soloist American artist Sherrita Duran. It has been written, arranged and produced by Màlleus, recorded and mixed in his Recanati studios.

You can download “Marilyn 2012” from iTunes and watch the video – set in a magic scenery – on YouTube.

More info on http://www.malleus.biz.

MARILYN 2012 (composed by Màlleus)

All of the hopes that you carried in your heart
and all of the dreams you packed up from the start
they brought you to a place …..many lights, many eyes
a very lonely place where fame and glory were the prize

All of the glory and all of the fame
could not fill the emptiness you felt all the same
a goddess of beauty, you had it all…they say
but just beyond your perfect smile, your long for love remained

Marilyn, you never lived to see
just how much we all relate to your fragility
Marilyn, you never realized
the beauty and the grace and all the love….you held inside.

Marilyn, you never lived to see
just how much we all relate to your fragility
Marilyn, you never realized
the beauty and the grace and all the love….you held inside.

Many years ago, you fell from life’s embrace
with many pages yet to fill …in your book of life
tho’ you seem so far, we can still see your star
the light in you is shining through
your face immortilized

Marilyn, you never lived to see
just how much we all relate to your fragility
Marilyn, you never realized
the beauty and the grace and all the love….you held inside.

Marilyn, you never lived to see
just how much we all relate to your fragility
Marilyn, you never realized
the beauty and the grace and all the love….you held inside.