Trivia
- In 1999 Battiato released a collection of covers of Italian love songs, Fleurs. He repeated the experiment three years later with an album inexplicably numbered Fleurs 3. The median album Fleurs 2 was released unexpectedly in November 2008.
- Battiato's cover of The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday", originally released on Fleurs, is prominently featured in the 2006 film, Children of Men.
- In his album Fleurs 2 (2009) Anthony Hegarty performs, in Italian, "Del suo veloce volo", Battiato's cover of Antony and the Johnsons' song "Frankestein".
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