Sanremo Festival 1985

Sanremo Festival 1985
output	35
date	7th-9th February
place	Ariston Theater in Sanremo
Charisma	Rai Uno , Rai Radio 1
Moderation	Pippo Baudo with Patty Brard
Attendees	38 (with 38 songs)
winner	Ricchi e Poveri  - Se m'innamoro
Newcomer winner	Cinzia Corrado  - Niente di più
Critic award	Matia Bazar  - Souvenir Mango  - Il viaggio / Cristiano De André  - Bella più di me
◄ Sanremo 1984 • Sanremo 1986 ►

The 35th edition of the Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo took place in 1985 from February 7th to 9th at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo and was moderated by Pippo Baudo together with Patty Brard .

procedure

The Ariston Theater, venue of the Sanremo Festival

In 1985, organizer Gianni Ravera retained the concept of the previous year for the most part: strict separation of the main and newcomer categories, audience voting using totip bets in the main category and appearances in full playback . On the first evening, the 22 Campioni (two more than in the previous year) appeared with their contributions, all of which made it to the finals, while on the second evening eight of the 16 newcomer contributions were eliminated. Pippo Baudo remained the moderator , this time together with the Dutch television star Patty Brard (married to a nephew of Fiat President Giovanni Agnelli ).

Among the participants were Matia Bazar , Peppino di Capri , Riccardo Fogli and Gigliola Cinquetti, four former Sanremo winners. Two discoveries from the previous year were also in the running, Fiordaliso and Eros Ramazzotti . On the one hand, Zucchero , who had turned to the blues and performed with the Randy Jackson Band , and on the other, Anna Oxa , who presented her song written by Roberto Vecchioni in a particularly daring dress, caused a stir . The youngest participant was Luis Miguel , who was just 15 years old , who sang a song by Toto Cutugno . Many big names, on the other hand, did not make it through the preselection, not least Mia Martini .

The guest list of the festival this year again included many international stars such as Bronski Beat , Duran Duran , Spandau Ballet , Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora , Chaka Khan , Sade , José Luis Moreno , Talk Talk , Village People and Frankie Goes to Hollywood . Claudio Baglioni also had a big appearance with his hit Questo piccolo grande amore from 1972, where he was the only singer to sing live and accompanied himself on the piano.

The favorites Ricchi e Poveri were able to prevail in the final without any major surprises : their song Se m'innamoro , like the winning song of the previous year, came from the duo of Dario Farina and Cristiano Minellono. Shooting star Luis Miguel with Noi, ragazzi di oggi followed in second place and Gigliola Cinquetti with Chiamalo amore came third . The critical award went to Matia Bazar with Souvenir , in tenth place overall. In the newcomer category, Cinzia Corrado was able to secure victory with Niente di più , while the critical award went ex aequo to Mango with Il viaggio and Cristiano De André with Bella più di me .

Candidates

Big

• winner

placement	Interpreter	song	Authors	be right
1	Ricchi e Poveri	Se m'innamoro	Dario Farina, Cristiano Minellono	1,506,812
2	Luis Miguel	Noi, ragazzi di oggi	Toto Cutugno , Cristiano Minellono	843.494
3	Gigliola Cinquetti	Chiamalo amore	Dario Farina, Paolo Amerigo Cassella	788.772
4th	Riccardo Fogli	Sulla buona strada	Maurizio Fabrizio , Vincenzo Spampinato	770.188
5	Christian	Notte serena	Mario Balducci	674.024
6th	Eros Ramazzotti	Una storia importante	Eros Ramazzotti, Piero Cassano, Adelio Cogliati	606,338
7th	Anna Oxa	A lei	Roberto Vecchioni , Mauro Paoluzzi	580.176
8th	Fiordaliso	Il mio angelo	Luigi Albertelli, Enzo Malepasso	479.812
9	Peppino Di Capri	E mo 'e mo'	Peppino Di Capri, Depsa, Franco Fasano	409,954
10	Matia Bazaar	souvenir	Aldo Stellita, Carlo Marrale, Sergio Cossu	380.410
11	Marco Armani	Tu dimmi un cuore ce l'hai	Marco Armenise, Paolo Armenise	258,884
12	Drupi	Fammi volare	Silvio Negroni, Dorina Dato, Drupi	254.064
13	Franco Simone	Ritratto	Massimo Colombo , Franco Simone	200,886
14th	Eduardo De Crescenzo	Via con me	Claudio Mattone, Daniele Pace	193.138
15th	Banco del Mutuo Soccorso	Grande Joe	Francesco Di Giacomo, Vittorio Nocenzi	164.246
16	Dario Baldan Bembo	Because quando non ci is	Dario Baldan Bembo, Antonella Maggio	161.172
17th	Ivan Graziani	Franca ti amo	Ivan Graziani	152.192
18th	Eugenio Finardi	Vorrei svegliarti	Eugenio Finardi, Luca Madonia	115,678
19th	Mimmo Locasciulli	Buona fortuna	Mimmo Locasciulli	115,632
20th	New trolls	Faccia di cane	Fabrizio De André , Roberto Ferri, Vittorio De Scalzi, Gianni Belleno, Nico Di Palo, Ricky Belloni	106,794
21st	Zucchero Fornaciari & Randy Jackson Band	Donne	Zucchero Fornaciari, Alberto Salerno	77,938
22nd	Garbo	Cose veloci	Garbo	57,526

Nuove Proposte

• winner
• Eliminated in the preliminary round

placement	Interpreter	song	Authors	be right
1	Cinzia Corrado	Niente di più	Cavaros, Piero Mangini	638
2	Miani	Me ne andrò	Miani, Piero Montanari	637
3	Lena Biolcati	Innamoratevi come me	Valerio Negrini, Roby Facchinetti	636
4th	Cristiano De André	Bella più di me	Roberto Ferri, Cristiano De André, Franco Mussida	627
5	Marco Rancati	Tatting neri	Rosalino Cellamare	607
6th	Stefano Borgia	Se ti senti veramente un amico	Stefano Borgia	606
7th	Lanfranco Carnacina	A goccia a goccia	Cashin, Marco Colucci, Lanfranco Carnacina, Daniele Pace, Silvio Testi	551
8th	Antonella Ruggiero	Sul mare	Michele Vicino, Daniele Pace, Maurizio Fabrizio	542
	Rodolfo Banchelli	Bella gioventù	Daniele Pace, Angelo Valsiglio, Rodolfo Banchelli, Oscar Avogadro
	Claudio Patti	Che amore è	Claudio Patti, Norina Piras
	Laura Landi	Firenze, piccoli particolari	Gaio Chiocchio, Amedeo Minghi
	mango	Il viaggio	Giuseppe Mango
	Antonio Valentini	Lasciamoci andare	Antonio Valentini
	Silvia Conti	Luna nuova	Oscar Avogadro, Aldo Tagliapietra
	Roberto Kunstler	Saranno i giovani	Mimmo Locasciulli, Roberto Kunstler
	Champagne Molotov	Volti nella noia	Enrico Ruggeri , Luigi Schiavone, Alberto Rocchetti

successes

Eros Ramazzotti, who placed sixth, was soon considered to be the festival's “moral winner” and was able to celebrate great sales successes with his album Cuori agitati . Nine other festival entries reached the top 25 of the singles charts, in addition to Ramazzotti Luis Miguel also had a number one hit. No song from the newcomer category could enter the charts. The most successful song by a guest was The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1985	Una storia importante Eros Ramazzotti	IT1 (17 weeks) IT	Rank 6
	Noi ragazzi di oggi Luis Miguel	IT1 (16 weeks) IT	place 2
	Se m'innamoro Ricchi e Poveri	IT6 (10 weeks) IT	1st place
	Souvenir Matia Bazar	IT8 (9 weeks) IT	Place 10
	A lei Anna Oxa	IT13 (6 weeks) IT	7th place
	Chiamalo amore Gigliola Cinquetti	IT14 (5 weeks) IT	place 3
	Il mio angelo Fiordaliso	IT17 (5 weeks) IT	8th place
	Donne zucchero	IT21 (2 weeks) IT	21st place
	Notte serena Christian	IT22 (2 weeks) IT	5th place
	Tu dimmmi un cuore ce l'hai Marco Armani	IT25 (1 week) IT	11th place
Further chart successes from the festival environment:
1985	The Power of Love Frankie Goes to Hollywood	IT3 (16 weeks) IT	Guest Post
	When the Rain Begins to Fall Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora	IT5 (11 weeks) IT	Guest Post
	I'll Fly for You Spandau Ballet	IT6 (17 weeks) IT	Guest Post
	Smooth Operator Sade	IT16 (6 weeks) IT	Guest Post
	La pappa non mi va Rockfeller (José Luis Moreno)	IT17 (5 weeks) IT	Guest Post

Web links

• Festival di Sanremo 1985 on Sorrisi.com (Italian)
• Sanremo 1985 on HitParadeItalia (Italian)

supporting documents

1. ↑ La storia del Festival di Sanremo 1985 - 35 ° edizione. In: BubinoBlog. December 16, 2016, accessed July 15, 2019 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Daniele Rubboli: Canzoni italiane . tape 4 . Fabbri, 1994, p. 107 .
3. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on July 15, 2019 (Italian, paid subscription access).