"Bandiera bianca" (lit.'White flag') is a 1981 song by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, the only single from his best-selling album La voce del padrone.
The song is considered a follow-up of Battiato's 1980 song "Up Patriots to Arms": while in the former he asked the public to mobilize against stupidity, here he polemically and pessimistically surrenders to it.
[1] It was first presented live, during the last dates of the "Patriots" summer tour, and officially premiered at the Mostra internazionale di musica leggera [it] in Venice in September 1981.[2]
^ abcZuffanti, Fabio (30 June 2020). "Bandiera bianca". Franco Battiato: Tutti i dischi e tutte le canzoni, dal 1965 al 2019 (in Italian). LIT Edizioni. ISBN978-88-6231-868-6.
^ abcSpessato, Carla (20 October 2021). "Bandiera bianca". Franco Battiato: Come un incantesimo (in Italian). Giunti. ISBN978-88-09-95527-1.
^"Classifiche". Musica e Dischi (in Italian). Retrieved 29 May 2023. Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Titolo" field, search "Bandiera bianca".