Italy boycotted the 1981 Eurovision Song contest, saying that
it was too old fashioned, while the following year France ducked
out saying that the cost was too great for such mediocre results. |
Some of the most popular entries to the Eurovision Song contest
have including wonderful titles like, 'Boom Bang-aBang' (UK,
1969), 'A-Ba-Ni-Ba' (Israel, 1978), 'Bana Bana' (Turkey, 1989)
and 'Bourn Badaborun' (Monaco, 1967). |
In the 1978 competition, Norway became the first country to
not receive a single vote for their entry, 'Mil Etter Mil'
(Mile after Mile). |
1983 Turkish Eurovision entry, 'Opera' consisted entirely of
the word 'Opera' being repeated over and over while Spain's
cleverly titled, 'La La La' contained no fewer than 138 la's. |
In the 1968 event Britain complained that Spain had not voted
for their entry (Cliff Richard's 'Congratulations') to make
it lose. In 1966 Scandinavians Sweden & Norway, who finished
second & third respectively were accused of 'teaming up'
to help each other. |
Norway entered the 1980 competition with a song written about
the construction of a hydro-electric power station. Finland,
not to be outdone by their Scandanavian neighbours scored nul
points in the 1982 competition with a song protesting about
the building of a nuclear power station. |
The youngest ever winner of the Eurovision Song contest was
13 year old Sandra Kin from Belgium in 1986. A natural result
of this was that contestants started to get younger until a
furore occured in 1989 with France's 11 year old entry and
Israel's 12 year old.
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