Marinella) in 1967, thanks to the TV performance of Mina. Many years later, in 1984, Marinella was sung by Joan Baez during an Italian TV program. Following this first success, it was released in 1967 his first long-playing album of new songs, simply named Volume 1. The album opens with a song, Preghiera in Gennaio, dedicated to a friend of his, the singer Luigi Tenco, who had committed suicide before the release of the album during his participation in the Sanremo Festival. Despite the popularity of this festival especially in those years, De André has always refused to participate in any song competition by principle; TV appearances of him remained also very rare. In 1966 the first compilation of De André was released with the name of Tutto Fabrizio De André. In 1968 he released Tutti morimmo a stento, a concept album among the first sung in Italian, with the arrangement of Gian Piero Reverberi which involved also a large orchestra for the first time in an album of De André. The lyrics of the first song, Il Cantico dei Drogati, was written together with the poet Riccardo Mannerini, one of the most significant persons in the life of De André. De André and Mannerini authored also the lyrics for the 1968-album of the band New Trolls, Senza orario Senza bandiera. In 1969 he released the album Volume 3. Because of some contents of his songs, some of them were censored by the national Italian television channel; however, the same songs were broadcast by the Vatican Radio. 1970s In 1970 was released the song Il pescatore ("The fisherman"). A second concept album was released in 1970, named La buona novella, inspired by the life of Jesus Christ as reported mainly by the Apocryphal gospels. It followed Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo in 1971, inspired by the Spoon River Anthology, a collection of short poems from Edgar Lee Masters, with the collaboration of Nicola Piovani for the music and Giuseppe Bentivoglio for the lyrics. In 1973 the concept album of Storia di un impiegato was written on an original subject of De André about the protests of those years, also involving Piovani and Bentivoglio. In 1974 it was released the album Canzoni, including re-recording of many old songs and new translations of songs of Brassens, but also for the first time Leonard Cohen (Suzanne and Joan of Arc)