Spike Lee will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, where the Oscar-winning ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I remember the first time I stumbled on the mesmerising 1970s-era black-and-white video of Italian ...

Italian actor and singer Adriano Celentano wrote "Prisencolinensinainciusol” in 1972. Photo: AFP In 1972, Italian singer Adriano Celentano wrote a song with nonsensical lyrics supposed to sound like ...

Adriano Celentano, Mina, Gino Paoli and Patty Pravo among top Italian celebrities The first official Italian music chart began almost seventy years ago, in 1947. At the beginning, the charts were ...

Italian music of the 1950s and 60s brought a ‘scent’ of the West to socialist Yugoslavia without the political baggage. A swing carousel, a cluster of children, and the sound of Adriano Celentano’s ...