Per Lucia
 "Per Lucia" |
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1983 entry | |
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| Final result |
11th
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| Final points |
41
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| Appearance chronology | |
| ◄ "Non so che darei" (1980) | |
| "I treni di Tozeur" (1984) ► | |
"Per Lucia" (English translation: "For Lucia") was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983, performed in Italian by Riccardo Fogli.
The song is a ballad, with Fogli singing about the lengths he wants to go to in order to impress Lucia, his lover. He claims at one point, for example, that he wants to make a feast for the entire country.
The song was performed fifth on the night (following Sweden's Carola Häggkvist with Främling and preceding Turkey's Çetin Alp & The Short Waves with Opera). At the close of voting, it had received 41 points, placing 11th in a field of 20.
It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1984 Contest by Alice & Battiato with "I treni di Tozeur".
Fogli has recorded also an English-language version of the song, titled "For Lucia", which was released as a promo single.
Riccardo Fogli had already achieved overwhelming popularity in Italy and Spanish-language countries, and his victory at Festival di Sanremo in 1982 made it spread worldwide.
After Italian broadcaster RAI had chosen the artist internally as the representative in Eurovision, decided to release a greatest hits album including Italy's entry for the contest, also "Storie de Tutti i Giorni" (Sanremo's winning song) and his hits from the last four studio albums at the time: Che Ne Sai (1979), Alla Fine de Un Lavoro (1980), Campione (1981) and Compagnia (1982).
The compilation was released in Scandinavia region and Greece and reached number 20 on the Finnish Album Charts in June 1983.
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