The past few days the media has been filled with Jalisse and everybody's talking about them, Sanremo and Eurovision again. Why? Gigi Vesigna (78), a great music expert in Italy as well as ex-editor in chief of TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, the main TV-music magazine in Italy, has published a book of the history of Sanremo titled Vox populi, voci di sessant'anni della nostra vita , on what's going on behind she scenes, how victories have been bought and how it all changed when Jalisse won and Sanremo was never the same again. When they won in 1997 they didn't belong to any major record company but had produced themselves, independent. That made all the major labels furious and - as Antonio Ricci writes in the book - "instead of being treated like a winner they should have, they were completely cancelled from radio and TV, they were just made to disappear. Ever since winning Sanremo wasn't a big deal anymore. A couple of months later the winner was forgotten matematic...