SANREMO: 1960-2026, Suicidi, Voti Truccati e Playback| Parte 2

January 27, 1967. Room 219. Hotel Savoy, Sanremo. A body. A weapon. A note accusing the Italian public. And a case that the Italian justice system has opened and closed three times without ever finding an answer. This is the story of the dark side of the Sanremo Festival: the one that no one really wants to tell. In Part 2 of this documentary series, we continue the story of Italy's oldest and most controversial festival: from the mysterious death of Luigi Tenco in 1967—a brilliant singer-songwriter, censored by RAI, found dead in his room with wounds consistent with the weapon found next to him—to the decline of the 1980s, with singers forced to playback, Queen and Vasco Rossi rebelling on stage, and the Totip gambling game that saved the Festival from oblivion. And then the rebirth: Laura Pausini winning as an unknown in 1993, Elio e le Storie Tese probably winning in 1996 without the verdict recognizing it, Pippo Baudo saving (perhaps) a man from the balcony on live TV. Up until the Amadeus era: Måneskin bringing Italy back to Eurovision after 31 years, Fantasanremo, Morgan and Bugo, Blanco destroying flowers. The Festival returns to the center of everything. Sanremo isn't just a song festival. It's Italy's way of expressing itself. But you, Sanremo, do you love it or hate it? ___________________________________________________________ ERRATA CORRIGE: min 7:20: the final night of the 1971 Sanremo Festival was not the only one broadcast. Unlike what happened starting in 1973, when RAI began broadcasting only the final night, in 1971 all the evenings were broadcast: the first, the second, and the final. Laura Pausini came in third at Sanremo in 1994 with "Strani Amori," not with "La Solitudine," with which she had won the Newcomers section the previous year. Sergio Endrigo won the Sanremo Festival in 1968 with the song "Canzone per te." The 1967 Sanremo Festival was won by Claudio Villa and Iva Zanicchi with the song "Non pensare a me." ___________________________________________________________ If you like these musical stories, subscribe to the channel and leave a like: it helps a lot to grow the channel and bring these stories to as many people as possible. 🎵 LISTEN TO MY MUSIC Episode 01 (EP) available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/albu... 📱 FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram:   / tapemusicstories   TikTok:   / tapemusicstories