When all else fails, pick a song from those early days of colour. It changed the contest and threw up all sorts of interesting outfits. As was also the case, the contest was almost in tune with the contemporary music tastes. If you were around in the early 1970s, you’d know that glamrock was yet to take hold and the guitar-ry sound of the Beatles was gone. So we had these big fun middle-of-the-road numbers. Inoffensive and pleasant. So in among all this came today’s birthday boy Gian Luigi ‘Gianni’ Morandi. He was definitely in the right genre, but he hadn’t quite got the hang of a garish colour. He’d instead gone for a nice respectable dinner jacket. Gianni is 71 today.
Buon compleanno, Gianni!