Cesare Cremonini, from San Siro starts the journey of the new tour (with friend Valentino Rossi)

Love as a second metaphor. It runs through most of the songs and is the antidote to the times we live in, as Cremonini's words recur, 'it's a night of beautiful souls'.

In the setlist is the best of more than 25 years of career. What remains of the performance is precisely his ability to switch between genres, between more melodic songs, others in which he dances and goes back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, more recent electropop, and theatrical moments in which he plays the accordion. He often changes jackets, from the shiny payettes of Grey Goose - with a remarkable graphic play in the background - to the 'teenage' leather jacket of 50 Special.

Eight out of 27 songs come from Alaska Baby, so the evening traverses the artist's entire career but is firmly planted in the present, and for Acrobati an ice piano emerges from the stage, consistent with the song's setting.

There is room for the debut of Easy Girls: 'There are songs that you don't really know how they get there, they rip something out of you and leave you naked in front of the audience and when that happens you are afraid. Songs are a way to protect yourself. Everyone has their own'. He turns to his friend Valentino Rossi, who surprisingly takes the stage for a greeting ('You are beautiful!'), saying that he had sent him 'and Francy' - his partner Francesca Sofia Novello, also in the front rows with Uccio, Valentino's lifelong friend - a preview of the song. "Valentino told me: 'Oh this is big'". Cremonini also greets, among friends in the audience, Sofia Goggia.

There was great emotion when Luca Carboni took the stage, on his return to a stage after an illness: he performed the song San Luca and Cremonini gave him the ovation of the entire San Siro. He says thank you in a visibly moved voice. On the big screens the porticoes of Bologna.

Finale with Poetics, Nobody Wants to be Robin and A Better Day: phone lights illuminating the stands, the voices of the audience ringing loudly as he dismounts and does a round of greetings caught on camera, then climbs back on stage, takes a run-up and runs towards Greg Williams, the photographer of the great American film stars, very popular on social media, for his final jump shot to capture the evening.