"(About the 1999 Sanremo Festival) I really don't understand all this enthusiasm. [...] It's all the same. [...] The only difference is the attitude of Fazio and his team: it's almost as if they're apologising for holding the festival. But that's not how you put on a show. Sinatra didn't sing while apologising, circus acrobats aren't ashamed. Interviewer: “The Sanremo circus had ended up in a bad crisis, though...” Baudo: I'm not questioning Fazio's formula, he's good, it works and you can see that. The problem is the songs. He doesn't even announce them anymore, he doesn't even touch the singers. As if they were made of contagious material. At this point, then, we need to dismantle everything definitively, resign ourselves to the idea that the festival is no longer a song contest that people will then buy and sing. And turn it into something else, an Isle of Wight. [...] at this point, the festival is over."
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Pippo Baudo
Giuseppe Raimondo Vittorio "Pippo" Baudo (7 June 1936 – 16 August 2025) was an Italian television presenter. One of the most notable in his native country, he had a career spanning six decades, which included 13 editions of the Sanremo Music Festivalthe highest number for a single presenter.
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