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. Alan Sorrenti (71) was chosen by Rai for Eurovision 1980 probably thanks to his success in recent years with Figli delle stelle and Tu sei l'unica donna per me . The Eurovision entry was however Non so che darei and it's very fashionable staging took it to the 6th place among 19 entries, among them Morocco. Welsh-Napoletan Alan grew up in Wales and has sung both Italian and English throughout his career, that started in the early 1970's with experimental and progressive rock. The success came however with more dance oriented and even disco tracks in the late 1970's. His career comes to a stop in 1983 and it includes a young Swede, his American model wife and some heroin. He tries comeback in Sanremo 1988, his only app...