A new Festival of Sanremo arrived and, in addition to questioning the winner's name, everyone is already asking: what will happen this year? You know, Sanremo is Sanremo but, in addition to music, the event often brings with it criticisms, provocations, protests and much more. The usual one appears every year pre-festival controversy on the super-guests' cachet. New entry this year is the participation of the Spanish singer Ana mena (a foreigner competing at the Italian song festival, for some is "a sacrilege"). In addition to the usual controversies, every year there always happens some unexpected event that, for better or for worse, gives more color at the Festival, making it "less monotonous". So here it is five unexpected events at the Sanremo Festival (from 2000 to today), which have remained indelible in the history of the most important Italian singing event.
Sanremo 2001: Placebo's Brian Molko breaks the guitar between the whistles
Even though i Moonlight, with their beloved "Shut up and Good", They brought a breath of rock to Sanremo, it must also be said that theAriston it is not always the most suitable stage for a rock star. I know it well Placebo, British rock band, among the super guests of the edition 2001, conducted by Raffaella Carra, Megan gale, Enrico Papi e Massimo ceccherini. That year they triumphed Elisa and Gazosa (Youth section), but the Placebos stole the pages of newspapers because of their performance. The band brought the song "Special K", Third single from the album"Black Market Music”, Released a few months earlier. The frontman Brian molko, after a rather "quiet" performance (despite the middle finger in favor of the camera), he hit the amplifier with his guitar. The public whistled and began to insult him shouting "fool”, As he continued to provoke the spectators from the stage.
The same Molko, in an interview with La Repubblica a few months later he "justified" his gesture by blaming the audience reaction andalcohol. However, years later he commented on the episode saying that no one had warned them about what the Festival was like, with an audience made up of people in suits and women in evening dresses. Being fish out of water, in a clearly different context than the usual stages trodden by the band had irritated them. The middle finger, the broken guitar and the "quarrel" with the audience, therefore seemed to them the most suitable reaction.
Sanremo 2010: Orchestra launches the scores
There is no Sanremo without controversy. One of the rarest examples of this kind of unexpected events at the Sanremo Festival dates back to 2010, when the members of the orchestra threw the scores. That edition, led by Antonella Clerici who saw winner Valerio Scanu, went down in history for the contestation of televoting by the orchestras. With the elimination of Malika Ayane, in favor of the trio Pupo, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy and the tenor Luca canonici (with "Italy my love”), The orchestra rose up, rolled up the scores and threw them away. The audience and the press room also thought about them, amidst boos and shouts of "shame".
Unexpected events at the 2013 Sanremo Festival: Controversy against Crozza's intervention
Leave politics out of the Sanremo Festival. This is a "mantra" that all guests should remember, especially when touching much loved personalities, such as Silvio Berlusconi. It is the case of Maurizio Crozza, the Genoese comedian who, as a guest at 2013 Festival, took the stage imitating the Cavaliere. Within seconds, the first whistles and complaints came with the cry of "go home"and "No politics in Sanremo". To restore calm in the room it was necessary the intervention of the presenter Fabio Fazio (several times), and the exit of some spectators from the theater. Crozza finally managed to finish his short monologue, without many difficulties. The wolf loses its fur, but not its vice. In fact, Crozza returned to the Festival in 2017 with the imitation (on its cover) of Matteo Renzi, recently resigned as Prime Minister.
Sanremo 2018: foray before Fiorello's monologue
Unforeseen events at the Sanremo Festival are on the agenda. There are many forays of characters in search of a few minutes of fame (and not). Among the most famous there is certainly the episode of Mario Appignani, said "Crazy Horse", Who in 1992 went up on the stage of the Ariston shouting"The festival is rigged”, Before being blocked by the presenter Pippo Baudo. Three years later, Pippo Baudo himself saved live Pagan Pine, an unemployed man who threatened to commit suicide by throwing himself from the balcony of the theater. In 2018, edition conducted by Claudio Baglioni, Michelle Hunziker e Pierfrancesco Favino, it was Fiorello Rosary (then guest) to be interrupted for a few minutes by an intruder who managed to get on stage to say that "for two months he had been trying to contact the Public Prosecutor and the Mayor of Sanremo". To play down Fiorello will first say `` «not even Crazy Horse" and then "I play the Pippo Baudo of the situation».
Unexpected events at the Sanremo 2020 Festival: Lite Morgan and Bugo
Last but not least among the unforeseen events at the Sanremo Festival ... "Where is Bugo"? The exhibition of Morgan e Bugo, where the first changed the lyrics to their song to hit the second is one of the more hilarious scenes that the Ariston stage could offer in recent years. First among the trends on social networks, this episode affected the Festival so much (at the first conduction of Amadeus and Fiorello), to the point of (almost) obscuring the victory of diodate with the beautiful "Make noise". Given the social success, Morgan then decided to finish the "cut off" and impromptu song and to publish one full version.
Cover photo: © Sanremo Festival (official Facebook page)
