Riccardo Fogli

Riccardo Fogli (2009)

Riccardo Fogli ( [rik'ːardo 'fɔʎːi] ; born October 21, 1947 in Pontedera ) is an Italian singer . After six years with the band Pooh , he began a solo career in 1973, during which he took part eight times in the Sanremo Festival and once in the Eurovision Song Contest .

Career

Fogli began as the bassist of the rock band Slenders and joined the beat band Pooh as bassist and singer in 1966 , after their bassist Gilberto Faggioli left. Over the next six years he released five successful albums with Pooh until he announced his exit in 1973; The trigger was an affair Fogli with the singer Patty Pravo .

After a few singles, Fogli's first solo album Ciao amore come stai was released in 1973 . The following year the singer took part in the Sanremo Festival for the first time with the song Complici , but did not make it to the final. Nevertheless, his fame rose again, especially through the single Mondo from 1976; that year Fogli also released his second, self-titled album. At the beginning of the 80s, especially after starting to work with the songwriter duo Maurizio Fabrizio and Guido Morra , he achieved further sales successes: in 1981 he had a smaller hit with the single Malinconia and the album Campione was able to build on it. On this wave of success, Fogli returned to the Sanremo Festival in 1982 , where his song Storie di tutti i giorni, according to the forecasts, brought the victory. The song became Fogli's first number one hit in Italy and also brought him international fame. At the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 in Munich , he then went into the race with Per Lucia as an Italian candidate, but could not achieve any notable success.

Despite many other Sanremo participations ( 1985 with Sulla buona strada , 1989 with Non finisce così , 1990 with Ma quale amore , 1991 Io ti prego di ascoltare , 1992 with In una notte così and 1996 with Romanzo ) Fogli's popularity dropped in the mid-80s -Years after. From 1987 he worked again sporadically with his bandmates from Pooh (he can be heard on their album Le infinite vie del cuore ), in 1991 he separated from his long-time producer Giancarlo Lucariello. It wasn't until 2004 that he made a name for himself again when he took part in the first edition of the Italian reality show Music Farm and won it. In 2005 Fogli released Ci saranno giorni migliori, his only regular studio album in the new millennium.

2015 there was a reunion Foglis with Pooh, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the band tape. Together, the five members gave one last concert series in 2016 before the band split up. In this context Fogli returned for the first time as a guest at the Sanremo Festival . In 2017 Fogli teamed up with ex-Pooh frontman Roby Facchinetti and recorded the collab album Insieme . The two also entered the race at the 2018 Sanremo Festival .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1973	Ciao amore come stai	IT22 (3 weeks) IT	RCA
1976	Riccardo Fogli	IT23 (3 weeks) IT	CGD
1981	Campione	IT17 (7 weeks) IT	Paradiso
2017	Insieme	IT6 (11 weeks) IT	Sony with Roby Facchinetti

More albums

• Il sole, l'aria, la luce, il cielo (CGD; 1977)
• Che ne sai (Paradiso; 1979)
• Alla fine di un lavoro (Paradiso; 1980)
• Compagnia (Paradiso; 1982)
• Torna a sorridere (Paradiso; 1984)
• 1985 (Paradiso; 1985)
• Le infinite vie del cuore (Paradiso; 1987)
• Amore di guerra (1988)
• Sentirsi uniti (CBS; 1990)
• Teatrino meccanico (1992)
• Nella fossa dei leoni (1994)
• Romanzo (1996)
• Ballando (BMG; EP, 1998)
• Matteo (Raro! Records; 1999)
• Il vincitore (cover album, 2004)
• Ci saranno giorni migliori (Sony; 2005)

Live albums

• Fogli su fogli (1995)
• Storie di tutti i giorni (2002)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1982	Collezione	IT6 (15 weeks) IT	Paradiso

More compilations

• Io ti porto via (CGD; 1978)
• Collezione (Paradiso; 1982)
• Il primo Riccardo Fogli (RCA; 1982)
• Storie di tutti i giorni (1987)
• Non finisce so (CBS; 1989)
• A metà del viaggio (Sony; 1991)
• Canzoni d'amore (1991)
• Mondo (1992)
• Greatest Hits (1996)
• Il mondo di Riccardo Fogli (1999)
• Pop Collection (2002)
• Storie d'amore (2004)
• Riccardo Fogli (Azzurra Music; 2008)
• Riccardo Fogli Collection (2011)

Singles (selection)

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		IT	DE	CH
1976	Mondo Riccardo Fogli	IT4 (17 weeks) IT	-	-
1977	Stella Il sole, l'aria, la luce, il cielo	IT15 (7 weeks) IT	-	-
1978	Io ti porto via Io ti porto via	IT12 (10 weeks) IT	-	-
1979	Che ne sai Che ne sai	IT7 (14 weeks) IT	-	-
1980	Scene da un amore Alla fine di un lavoro	IT15 (16 weeks) IT	-	-
	Ti amo però… Alla fine di un lavoro	IT18 (8 weeks) IT	-	-
1981	Malinconia Campione	IT3 (22 weeks) IT	-	-
1982	Storie di tutti i giorni Collezione	IT1 (16 weeks) IT	DE30 (15 weeks) DE	CH7 (6 weeks) CH
1983	Per Lucia	-	DE63 (4 weeks) DE	-
1989	Non finisce so Non finisce so	IT25 (1 week) IT	-	-
1990	Ma quale amore Sentirsi uniti	IT25 (1 week) IT	-	-
1992	In una notte so Teatrino meccanico	IT18 (4 weeks) IT	-	-
2005	Ci saranno giorni migliori Ci saranno giorni migliori	IT28 (5 weeks) IT	-	-

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Web links

• Literature by and about Riccardo Fogli in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Riccardo Fogli on Rockol.it
• Riccardo Fogli at Allmusic (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Mario Luzzato Fegiz : Riccardo Fogli: lasciai i Pooh per stare con Patty Pravo. In: Corriere.it . RCS MediaGroup , February 12, 2016, accessed May 9, 2016 (Italian). 
2. ^ Pooh, the video remake of "Pensiero" in esclusiva per Sorrisi. In: Sorrisi.com . Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , September 28, 2015, accessed May 9, 2016 (Italian). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources (albums):
   • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on November 11, 2017 (Italian, paid subscription access). 
   • Riccardo Fogli's albums. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed November 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Chart sources (singles):
   • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on May 9, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access). 
   • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu , 2013, p. 94 .
   • Singles by Riccardo Fogli. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed May 9, 2016 . 
   • Singles by Riccardo Fogli. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on May 9, 2016 .