Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Italy took its well deserved third victory - finally! - at the Eurovision song contest 2021. Over the years several other Italian entries would have been worthy winners. In this series I will go through all of them from the worst ranking to the winner s. Franco Battiato (1945-2021) and Alice (67) apparently accepted to go to Eurovision simply because they wanted to perform with a big live orchestra as in those years in Italy most everything was playback only, even Sanremo that was won by another couple, Al Bano & Romina Power and Ci sará . Legendary million sellling Battiato was The Big seller in the early 1980's and apparently first was planning to go solo with No time, no space , song covered by Mahmood in the Arena di Verona tribute concert to his memory this fall, but when this I treni di Tozeur came to picture decided to ask Alice along whose success was already blooming in central Europe and after Eurovision  would spread to Scandinavia and Finland, too. Sadly they...

  It's hard to find another artist like Franco Battiato: composer from experimental to pop to opera and soundtracks, singer, musician, arranger, producer, writer, documentalist, painter and philosopher and a lot more. He sold millions of albums in the 80's, started in the 60's and is still active. He has worked with Alice, Giuni Russo, Milva and Juri Camisasca just to name a few, not forgetting legendary late Giusto Pio. I adore. Still. Check out also