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Per Lucia - Wikipedia

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"Per Lucia"

Single by Riccardo Fogli
Language	Italian
Released	1983
Label	CDG
Composer(s)	Maurizio Fabrizio
Lyricist(s)	Riccardo Fogli Vincenzo Spampinato

Eurovision Song Contest 1983 entry
Country	Italy
Artist(s)	Riccardo Fogli
Language	Italian
Composer(s)	Maurizio Fabrizio
Lyricist(s)	Riccardo Fogli Vincenzo Spampinato
Conductor	Maurizio Fabrizio
Finals performance
Final result	11th
Final points	41
Entry chronology
◄ "Non so che darei" (1980)
"I treni di Tozeur" (1984) ►

"Per Lucia" (Italian pronunciation: [per luˈtʃiːa]; "For Lucia") is a song recorded by Italian singer Riccardo Fogli with music composed by Maurizio Fabrizio and Italian lyrics written by Vincenzo Spampinato and Fogli himself. It represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 held in Munich.

Background

Conception

"Per Lucia" was composed by Maurizio Fabrizio with Italian lyrics by Vincenzo Spampinato and Riccardo Fogli. It is a ballad, with the singer 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.^[1]

Selection

Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) internally selected "Per Lucia" performed by Fogli as it entrant for the 28th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.^[2] Fogli had already achieved overwhelming popularity in Italy and Spanish-language countries, and his victory at the Sanremo Music Festival the previous year made it spread worldwide.

After its selection, they decided to release a greatest hits album including the Eurovision entry, "Storie di tutti i giorni (Sanremo 1982's winning song), and the hits from his last four studio albums at the time: "Che ne sai" (1979), "Alla fine di un lavoro" (1980), "Campione" (1981) and "Compagnia" (1982).^[3] This compilation was released in Scandinavia and Greece and reached number 20 on the Finnish album charts in June 1983.^[4]

Fogli also recorded an English-language version of the song, titled "For Lucia", which was released as a promo single.^[5]

Eurovision

On 23 April 1983, the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle in Munich hosted by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) on behalf of ARD and broadcast live throughout the continent. Fogli performed "Per Lucia" fifth on the evening, following Sweden's "Främling" by Carola Häggkvist and preceding Turkey's "Opera" by Çetin Alp & The Short Waves. Fabrizio conducted the event's live orchestra in the performance of the Italian entry.^[6]

At the close of voting, it had received 41 points, placing eleventh in a field of twenty.^[7] It was succeeded as Italian entry at the 1984 contest by "I treni di Tozeur" by Alice & Battiato.

Charts

Charts (1983)	Peak position
Finland (The Official Finnish Charts)^[8]	17
Germany (Official German Charts)^[9]	63
Italy (FIMI)^[10]	38

Year-end Charts (1983)	Position
Finland (The Official Finnish Charts)^[11]	75

Legacy

Covers

Swedish dansband Wizex covered the song on the 1983 album Julie as "Här är sången" ("Here is the song") with lyrics in Swedish by Monica Forsberg.^[12]
There are two Finnish-language cover versions of the song: "Kirje sulle" ("A letter to you"), written by Raul Reiman [fi] and recorded by Katri Helena, and "Vielä kerran kaikki muuttuu" ("Everything changes once more"), written by Turkka Mali [fi] and recorded by Jonna Tervomaa.^[13]
A Croatian cover version, "Tebi Lucija", was sung by Slovenian singer Oto Pestner and released after the contest for the compilation album Evrovizijske melodije 2, due to the popularity of Eurovision in Yugoslavia.^[14]

References

^ ""Per Lucia" - lyrics". The Diggiloo Thrush.
^ "Eurovision 1983 Italy: Riccardo Fogli - "Per Lucia"". Eurovisionworld.
^ "Per Lucia". Discogs. Retrieved 18 Nov 2016.
^ "Suomen Albumi listat" (in Finnish). Retrieved 18 Nov 2016.
^ "45cat - Riccardo Fogli - For Lucia - Per Lucia - Ariola - UK - ARO 297". Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1983". Eurovision Song Contest. 23 April 1983. ARD / EBU.
^ "Official Eurovision Song Contest 1983 scoreboard". Eurovision Song Contest.
^ "Search for the forum "Finnish Chart performance of Eurovision songs" at UK Mix Forum's advanced search - ukmix.org". UK Mix Forum. Retrieved 23 Oct 2016.
^ "Riccardo Fogli - Per Lucia - www.offiziellecharts.de". Offizielle Deutsche Charts. Retrieved 18 Oct 2016.
^ "Indice per Interprete: F (Riccardo Fogli's singles) - www.hitparadeitalia.it". Hit Parade Italia. Retrieved 21 Oct 2016.
^ "Suurimmat hitit 1983". Suomen Vuosilistat. Retrieved 18 Nov 2016.
^ "Svensk mediedatabas". Retrieved 21 April 2011.
^ "Per Lucia" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^ "Oto Pestner - Tebi Lucija". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-18. Retrieved 21 October 2016.

External links

"Per Lucia" at Discogs (list of releases)

v t e Eurovision Song Contest 1983
Countries	Austria Belgium Cyprus Denmark Germany Greece Finland France Israel Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Yugoslavia
Artists	Çetin Alp Remedios Amaya Ami Aspelund Bernadette Guy Bonnet Daniel Mariella Farré Riccardo Fogli Armando Gama Carola Häggkvist Ofra Haza Corinne Hermès Hoffmann and Hoffmann Gry Johansen Pas de Deux Christie Stasinopoulou Stavros and Constantina Sweet Dreams Jahn Teigen Westend
Songs	"Do Re Mi" "Džuli" "Esta balada que te dou" "Fantasiaa" "Främling" "Hi" "Hurricane" "I agapi akoma zi" "I'm Never Giving Up" "Io così non ci sto" "Kloden drejer" "Mou les" "Opera" "Per Lucia" "¿Quién maneja mi barca?" "Rendez-vous" "Rücksicht" "Si la vie est cadeau" "Sing Me a Song" "Vivre"

v t e Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
Sanremo Music Festival Canzonissima
Participation	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1997 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Artists	Al Bano and Romina Power Alice Luca Barbarossa Franco Battiato Blanco Gigliola Cinquetti Betty Curtis Toto Cutugno Nicola Di Bari Peppino di Capri ~~Diodato~~ Emma Sergio Endrigo Riccardo Fogli Francesco Gabbani Nunzio Gallo Dori Ghezzi Raphael Gualazzi Jalisse Fausto Leali Mahmood Måneskin Angelina Mango Mia Martini Matia Bazar Marco Mengoni Ermal Meta Francesca Michielin Domenico Modugno Gianni Morandi Fabrizio Moro Anna Oxa Emilio Pericoli Raf Franca Raimondi Massimo Ranieri Renato Rascel Ricchi e Poveri Enrico Ruggeri Bobby Solo Alan Sorrenti Tonina Torrielli Umberto Tozzi Claudio Villa Il Volo Wess Iva Zanicchi Nina Zilli
Songs	"Addio, addio" "Al di là" "Amami se vuoi" "L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)" "L'amore è un attimo" "Aprite le finestre" "Avrei voluto" "Brividi" "Chi sarà con te" "Comme è ddoce 'o mare" "Corde della mia chitarra" "Dio, come ti amo" "Due grosse lacrime bianche" "Due vite" "Era" "L'essenziale" ~~"Fai rumore"~~ "Fiumi di parole" "Gente di mare" "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" "Grande amore" "Insieme: 1992" "Libera" "Madness of Love" "Magic Oh Magic" "Marianne" "La mia città" "La noia" "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" "No Degree of Separation" "Non andare più lontano" "Non ho l'età" "Non mi avete fatto niente" "Non so che darei" "Occhi di ragazza" "Occidentali's Karma" "Per Lucia" "Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" "Questo amore" "Raggio di luna" "Rapsodia" "Romantica" "Se piangi, se ridi" "Sì" "Soldi" "Sole d'Europa" "I treni di Tozeur" "Uno per tutte" "Vivo (Ti scrivo)" "We'll Live It All Again" "Zitti e buoni"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Italy did not compete