Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Chan-son egocentrique was the first Alice and Franco Battiato duet, first appearing in her 1982 Azimut album being its third single and major hit written by Battiato with Francesco Messina and Tommaso Tramonti. Battiato himself later recorded it as a solo effort in his 1985 album Mondi lontanissimi . Alice herself re-recorded the song with Bluvertigo for her Personal Jukebox in 2000. And again for Eri con me hommage to late Battiato in 2022. There's also a 1994 remix around. One of those Alice wasn't fond of and left EMI after a court case that she won making all copies disappear from shops.  Chi sono, dove sono quando sono assente di me? Da dove vengo, dove vado? Who am I, where am I when I am absent from myself? Where do I come from, where am I going?

Sanremo number 66 has started and Carlo Conti can have a long sigh of relief. The viewing figures are out and the festival scored an average of 11,135.000 viewers and 49,98% share! That equals last year's first night even though there a bit fewer watchers (11,767.000) but better share (49,34%) The first part of the show was watched in average by 12,515.000 (49,2%) while the second part by 5,906.000 (52,30%). The most watched act was duo Caccamo & Iurato with 15,580.000 viewers followed by Dear Jack and Arisa with over 14 million, Noemi. Fragola and Stadio with over 13 million. Bluvertigo and Ruggeri scored over 12 million while Hunt got just a bit over 10 and last Fornaciari less than 10 million but then Hunt and Fornaciari were the last two to perform late late...... The show was also marked by the fight for the equal rights, even if no one mentioned it aloud. The Rainbow stripes were part of the performance of five artists (Noemi, Arisa, Ruggeri, Bluvertigo, Fornaciar...