Per Lucia

"Per Lucia"
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") 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 also recorded an English-language version of the song, titled "For Lucia", which was released as a promo single.^[1]

Per Lucia (Greatest Hits album)

Riccardo Fogli had already achieved overwhelming popularity in Italy and Spanish-language countries, and his victory at the Sanremo Music Festival 1982 made it spread worldwide.

After Italian broadcaster RAI had chosen the artist internally as the representative in Eurovision, they decided to release a greatest hits album including Italy's entry for the contest, "Storie di tutti i giorni" ("Everyday stories", Sanremo's winning song) and his hits from the last four studio albums at the time: "Che ne sai" (1979), "Alla fine di un lavoro" (1980), "Campione" (1981) and "Compagnia" (1982).^[2]

The compilation was released in Scandinavia and Greece and reached number 20 on the Finnish album charts in June 1983.^[3]

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.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• 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.^[6]

Charts

References

External links

• Italian lyrics of the song and its English translation