Sanremo Music Festival 1982

The Sanremo Music Festival 1982 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1982), officially the 32nd Italian Song Festival (32º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 32nd annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo between 28 and 30 January 1982 and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI).^[1] The show was hosted by Claudio Cecchetto, assisted by Patrizia Rossetti. Daniele Piombi hosted the segments from the Sanremo Casino, where a number of foreign guests performed their songs.^[1]

Sanremo Music Festival 1982
Dates
Semi-final 1	28 January 1982
Semi-final 2	29 January 1982
Final	30 January 1982
Host
Venue	Teatro Ariston Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)	Claudio Cecchetto and Patrizia Rossetti
Host broadcaster	Rete Uno
Vote
Number of entries	30
Winner	Riccardo Fogli "Storie di tutti i giorni"
1981 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 1983

Claudio Cecchetto and Patrizia Rossetti hosting Sanremo 1982

The winner of the festival was Riccardo Fogli with the song "Storie di tutti i giorni". In addition, this was the first edition to feature the Critics Award, which was won by Mia Martini with "E non finisce mica il cielo".^[1]

Participants and results

Big Artists section [1]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)	Rank	Notes
"Storie di tutti i giorni" – Riccardo Fogli (Riccardo Fogli, Guido Morra, Maurizio Fabrizio)	1	Winner
"Felicità" – Al Bano and Romina Power (Cristiano Minellono, Gino De Stefani, Dario Farina)	2
"Soli" – Drupi (Drupi, Gianni Belleno, Vittorio De Scalzi)	3
"Beguine" – Jimmy Fontana (Franco Migliacci, Jimmy Fontana, Lilli Greco, Luigi Pellegrino)	Finalist
"Blue Hotel" - Lene Lovich (Mauro Goldsand)	Finalist
"C'è" - Elisabetta Viviani (Mario Balducci)	Finalist
"E non finisce mica il cielo" - Mia Martini (Ivano Fossati)	Finalist	Critics Award
"Io no" - Anna Oxa (Oscar Avogadro, Mario Lavezzi)	Finalist
"Lisa" - Stefano Sani (G. Iozzo, Zucchero Fornaciari, R. Marsella)	Finalist
"Marinai" - Le Orme (Alberto Salerno, D'Amico, Antonio Pagliuca, Aldo Tagliapietra)	Finalist
"Non voglio ali" - Riccardo Del Turco (Riccardo Del Turco)	Finalist
"Ping pong" - Plastic Bertrand (De Pasquale, G. Pirazzoli, Franco Fasano)	Finalist
"Quando incontri l'amore" - Milk and Coffee (Silvio Subelli, Ignazio Polizzy, Claudio Natili, Giancarlo Nisi)	Finalist
"Romantici" – Viola Valentino (Guido Morra, Maurizio Fabrizio)	Finalist
"Sei la mia donna" – Mal (Cristiano Minellono, Duilio Sorrenti, Giuseppe Santamaria)	Finalist
"Sette fili di canapa" – Mario Castelnuovo (Mario Castelnuovo)	Finalist
"Solo grazie" – Giuseppe Cionfoli (Giuseppe Cionfoli)	Finalist
"Strano momento" – Roberto Soffici (Roberto Soffici, Andrea Lo Vecchio)	Finalist
"Tu stai" – Bobby Solo (Bobby Solo)	Finalist
"Un'altra vita un altro amore" – Christian (Mario Balducci)	Finalist
"Una notte che vola via" – Zucchero (Adelmo Fornaciari)	Finalist
"Vado al massimo" – Vasco Rossi (Vasco Rossi)	Finalist
"America in" – Orietta Berti (Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri, Corrado Conti)	Eliminated
"Biancaneve" – Rino Martinez (Paolo Dossena, Rino Martinez)	Eliminated
"Centomila amori miei" – Marina Lai (Minimum, Adelio Cogliati, Bibap)	Eliminated
"Cuore bandito" – Julie (Elio Palumbo, Sebastiano)	Eliminated
"Facciamo la pace" – Claudio Villa (Claudio Villa, Roberto Ferri)	Eliminated
"Non arrenderti mai" – Piero Cassano (Vito Pallavicini, Luigi Albertelli, Piero Cassano)	Eliminated
"Una rosa blu" – Michele Zarrillo (Paolo Amerigo Cassella, Michele Zarrillo, Totò Savio)	Eliminated
"Una sporca poesia" – Fiordaliso (Pinuccio Pirazzoli, Franco Fasano, Depsa)	Eliminated

Guests

Guests [1]
Artist(s)	Song
Diego Abatantuono	"Eccezziunale...veramente"
Gloria Gaynor	"I Kinda Like Me"
Donovan & Astrella Leiych	"Love Is Only Feeling"
Stray Cats	"Rock This Town"
Marco Lucchinelli	"Stella fortuna"
Johnny Hallyday	"Solo una preghiera"
America	"Survival"
Marianne Faithfull	"Sweetheart"
Kiss	"I"
Hall & Oates	"Private Eyes"
Village People	"Do You Wanna Spend the Night"
Nino Manfredi	"La frittata"
Claudia Mori	"Non succederà più"
Bee Gees	"He's a Liar"
Van Halen	"Pretty Woman"

Broadcasts

Local broadcasts

All shows were broadcast on Rete Uno.

International broadcasts

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

International broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 1982

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
United States	WNJU-TV[a]			[2]