Sanremo Music Festival 1986

The Sanremo Music Festival 1986 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1986), officially the 36th Italian Song Festival (36º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 36th edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show was hosted by Loretta Goggi, assisted by the trio Anna Pettinelli, Mauro Micheloni and Sergio Mancinelli, who at the time were the presenters of the musical show Discoring.^[1]

Sanremo Music Festival 1986
Dates
Semi-final 1	13 February 1986
Semi-final 2	14 February 1986
Final	15 February 1986
Host
Venue	Teatro Ariston Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)	Loretta Goggi and Anna Pettinelli, Mauro Micheloni, Sergio Mancinelli
Artistic director	Gianni Ravera
Host broadcaster	Rai Uno
Big Artists section
Number of entries	22
Winner	Eros Ramazzotti "Adesso tu"
Newcomers' section
Number of entries	14
Winner	Lena Biolcati "Grande grande amore"
1985 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 1987

The winner of the Big Artists section was Eros Ramazzotti with the song "Adesso tu", while Enrico Ruggeri won the Critics Award with the song "Rien ne va plus".^[1] Lena Biolcati won the Newcomers section with the song "Grande grande amore".^[1]

Participants and results

The first three places of Sanremo 1986, left to right: Marcella Bella, Eros Ramazzotti and Renzo Arbore

Big Artists

Big Artists section [1]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)	Rank	Notes
"Adesso tu" - Eros Ramazzotti (Eros Ramazzotti, Piero Cassano, Adelio Cogliati)	1	Winner of the "Big Artists" section
"Il clarinetto" - Renzo Arbore (Claudio Mattone, Renzo Arbore)	2
"Senza un briciolo di testa" - Marcella Bella (Gianni Bella, Mogol, Geoff Westley)	3
"Azzurra malinconia" - Toto Cutugno (Toto Cutugno)	4
"È tutto un attimo" - Anna Oxa (Adelio Cogliati, Franco Ciani, Mario Lavezzi, Umberto Smaila)	5
"Futuro" - Orietta Berti (Umberto Balsamo, Lorenzo Raggi)	6
"Vai" - Nino D'Angelo (Nino D'Angelo, Antonio Annona)	7
"Cantare" - Fred Bongusto (Sergio Iodice, Fred Bongusto, Mimmo Di Francia)	8
"Re" - Loredana Bertè (Armando Mango, Giuseppe Mango)	9
"Fatti miei" - Fiordaliso (Zucchero Fornaciari, Enzo Malepasso, Luigi Albertelli)	10
"Uno sull'altro" - Marco Armani (Pietro Armenise, Marco Armani)	11
"Canzone italiana" - Sergio Endrigo (Claudio Mattone, Sergio Endrigo)	12
"Amore stella" - Donatella Rettore (Guido Morra, Maurizio Fabrizio)	13
"Lei verrà" - Mango (Giuseppe Mango, Alberto Salerno)	14
"Innamoratissimo" - Righeira (Stefano Rota, Stefano Righi, La Bionda, Sergio Conforti, Cristiano Minellono)	15
"No East, No West" - Scialpi (Franco Migliacci, Giovanni Scialpi, Thoty)	16
"Rien ne va plus" - Enrico Ruggeri (Enrico Ruggeri)	17	Critics Award Winner
"Via Margutta" - Luca Barbarossa (Luca Barbarossa)	18
"Verso il 2000" - Flavia Fortunato (Antonello de Sanctis, Alberto Cheli, Elio Palumbo)	19
"Brividi" - Rossana Casale (Guido Morra, Maurizio Fabrizio)	20
"Canzone triste (Canzone d'amore)" - Zucchero (Zucchero Fornaciari)	21
"Canzoni alla radio" - Stadio (Luca Carboni, Gaetano Curreri, Ricky Portera)	22

Newcomers

Newcomers section [1]
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)	Rank	Notes
"Grande grande amore" - Lena Biolcati (Stefano D'Orazio, Maurizio Fabrizio)	1	Winner of the Newcomers' section
"La nave va" - Aleandro Baldi (Aleandro Baldi)	2
"E le rondini sfioravano il grano" - Giampiero Artegiani (Giampiero Artegiani, Marcello Marrocchi)	3
"E camminiamo" - Lanfranco Carnacina (Piero Calabrese, Francesco Ventura, Lanfranco Carnacina)	4
"Ipnotica" - Meccano (Elio Aldrighetti, Walter Bassani)	5
"Ma non finisce mica qui" - Francesco Hertz (Guido Morra, Maurizio Fabrizio)	6
"Come una guerra" - Chiari e Forti (Cheope, Ottavio Angelillo)	7
"Azzurra anima" - Nova Schola Cantorum (Lucio Macchiarella, Alberto Cheli)	Eliminated
"Croce del Sud" - Aida Satta Flores (Elio Aldrighetti, Aida Satta Flores, Sergio Cossu)	Eliminated
"L'uomo di ieri" - Paola Turci (Mario Castelnuovo, Gaio Chiocchio)	Eliminated
"Nessun dolore" - Anna Bussotti (Alberto Salerno, Pino Mango)	Eliminated
"Quando l'unica sei tu" - Ivano Calcagno (Adelio Cogliati, Moreno Ferrara)	Eliminated
"Ribelle su questa terra" - Miani (Giovanni Miani, Piero Montanari)	Eliminated
"Scherzi della vita" - Gatto Panceri (Gatto Panceri, Piero Cassano)	Eliminated

Broadcasts

Local broadcasts

All shows were broadcast on Rai Uno at 20:30 CET.^[2][3][4]

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 1986

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	2SER			[5]
Estonian SSR	ETV[a]			[6]
Finland	YLE	TV1[a]		[6]
Germany  Ireland  Italy  Netherlands  Portugal	Europa TV[b]			[7]
South Korea	KBS	KBS 2FM[c]		[8]
Yugoslavia	JRT
		TV Ljubljana 1 [sl]		[9]
		TV Novi Sad		[10]
		TV Prishtina [sr; sq]		[11]
		TV Sarajevo 1
		TV Zagreb 1

Notes and references

Notes

1. Delayed broadcast on 14 March at 22:50 (EEST)^[6]
2. Delayed broadcast on 16 March at 18:55 (CEST)^[7]
3. Delayed broadcast on 9 March 1986 at 11:00 (KST)^[8]

References

1. Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
2. "Programmi Tv" [TV Programmes] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). Rome, Italy. 13 February 1986. p. 12. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
3. "Programmi Tv" [TV Programmes] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). Rome, Italy. 14 February 1986. p. 12. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
4. "Programmi Tv" [TV Programmes] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). Rome, Italy. 15 February 1986. p. 14. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
5. "Bon giorno, and Latin America as well". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, Australia. 16 February 1986. p. 166. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
6. "R. 14. III" [F. 14 March]. Televisioon : TV (in Estonian). No. 11. Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union. 10–16 March 1986. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 5 September 2024 – via DIGAR [et].
7. "Europa – Sunday, March 16". Revue Agenda. 13 March 1986. p. 9. Retrieved 29 August 2024.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
8. "AM-FM". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Seoul, South Korea. 9 March 1986. p. 10. Retrieved 26 September 2024 – via Naver.
9. "TV spored" [TV schedule] (PDF). Gorenjski glas (in Slovenian). Kranj, Slovenia. 14 February 1986. p. 720. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
10. "Televizió" [Television]. Magyar Szó (in Hungarian). Novi Sad, SAP Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. 15 February 1986. p. 28. Retrieved 27 September 2024 – via Vajdasági Magyar Digitális Adattár.
11. "Телевизија – Субота, 15. Фебруар" [Television – Saturday, 15 February]. Borba (in Serbian). Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia. 15–16 February 1986. p. 10. Retrieved 27 September 2024 – via Pretraživa digitalna biblioteka.