Armando Gallo

{{More references|date=March 2025}}{{Short description|Italian journalist, photographer and book publisher}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|01|24}}

| birth_place = Mira, Veneto, Italy

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| nationality = Italian

| occupation = Photographer

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| years_active = 1967–current

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| website = http://www.armandogallo.com

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Armando Gallo (born January 24, 1944) is an Italian journalist, photographer and book publisher.

Gallo has been a photojournalist since 1967, when he met the Beatles at the listening party of their Sgt. Pepper Lonely Heart Club Band.{{Cn|date=March 2025}} He wrote a cover story for the Italian magazine Ciao Big. Inspired by this experience, he left his career as an architecture designer to become the London correspondent for the Italian music magazine Ciao 2001, covering the events in the English pop and rock scene.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}

In the early 1970s Gallo met Genesis before their first Italian tour and became a good friend of the band. His most high-profile work is a book about the band entitled Genesis: The Evolution of a Rock Band. Originally published in 1978, it chronicles the band's early days – a period of time never covered by any other biographical source up to that point, including the band members' full names. One notable fan of the book was Bob Marley, who was spotted reading it on the steps of his home in Kingston.{{Cn|date=March 2025}} The book was reprinted and expanded in 1980 with the new title I Know What I Like. By the early 1990s, after Genesis had reached their peak in popularity, the book was no longer available. As there was no sign it would ever be reprinted, zealous Genesis fans retyped out the text of the book as ASCII text in the early 1990s, but when plans for a reprint were announced, the files were taken down from the internet. In September 2014 the book was published on iTunes.{{Cite web |url=http://apple.co/2gmZDPj |title=Genesis – I Know What I Like on the App Store |access-date=2016-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526185658/https://apps.apple.com/us/app/genesis-i-know-what-i-like/id1174004949?ls=1%2F |archive-date=2020-05-26 |url-status=dead }} Gallo also went on to put together several books on Genesis founding member Peter Gabriel.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}

In 1982, with his brother Claudio, he formed Fratelli Gallo Editori in Italy, editing and publishing over 40 music books as well as the monthly magazine PIX Photorock.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}

Gallo has also directed the U2 music video "Even Better than the Real Thing" from the Achtung Baby album.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/6GLGx6kxIN4 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140911153411/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GLGx6kxIN4 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GLGx6kxIN4| title = U2- Even Better Than The Real Thing (Version 2) | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

Gallo has worked as a photojournalist in Hollywood for the last 35 years as correspondent of the Italian weekly magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni. He is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and as such is a voting member for the Golden Globes.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}

Gallo is currently collaborating with Italian magazines Grazia and Oggi.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}