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  Encyclopedia: Eurovision Song Contest 1987   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the twelfth Eurovision and was held on 8 April 1967 in Austria.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the sixteenth Eurovision and was held on April 3, 1971 in Dublin.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1973 was the eighteenth Eurovision and was held on April 7, 1973 in Luxembourg.
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 Eurovision Song Contest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Among the famous performers to have graced the Eurovision stage are Nana Mouskouri, Sandie Shaw, Cliff Richard, Vicky Leandros, Julio Iglesias, Mocedades, Olivia Newton John, ABBA, The Shadows, Baccara, Céline Dion, Katrina and the Waves, and t.A.T.u.
Currently, the contest winner is selected by means of a modified version of the Borda count Each country ranks all the entries and assigns 12 points to their favorite entry, 10 points to their second favorite entry, and 8 through 1 points to their third through 10th favorites.
Many viewers of the contest view the event as a combination of camp entertainment and a musical train wreck (a fact played upon in the UK broadcast with the sardonic BBC commentary of Terry Wogan) and a subculture of Eurovision song contest drinking games and the like has evolved in some countries.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the 48th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 24, 2003 in Riga, Latvia.
Whilst the contest featured its usual collection of dance numbers and power ballads (complete with "truck-driver's" key changes for the last chorus in typical Eurovision style), and entries pulled the usual stunt of attractive dancers gradually removing some clothing throughout the performance, there were several acts that generally stood out from the usual fare.
Erener's song clearly showed her nationality with a striking violin hook in typically Turkish pop style, emphasised with attractive dancers accompanying her performing a bellydance.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2003   (627 words)

  
 Eurovision Song Contest 1970 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was the fifteenth Eurovision and was held on March 21, 1970 in Amsterdam.
With as the presenter, the contest was won by Dana who represented Ireland, with the song "All Kinds of Everything".
Finland, Norway, Portugal and Sweden boycotted this contest as they were not pleased with the result of 1969 and the voting structure.
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 Eurovision Song Contest
The 2002 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Tallinn, Estonia on Saturday 26 June, 2002, hosted by Annely Peebo, an opera singer, and Marko Matvere, an actor.
The 2003 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Riga, Latvia on Saturday 24 May, 2003, hosted by Marie N, the singer who won the ESC 2002, and Renars Kaupers, a singer whose group competed in the ESC 2000.
By the 1960s, entries were limited to one song per country (participation in the contest had almost doubled), and the songs had to be sung in one of the national languages of the country.
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 Eurovision Song Contest Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the first contest in 1956, each country was allowed to submit two three-minute (or less) songs, performed by inhabitants of the respective country.
Following the dominance of English language songs, particularly Sweden's 1974 victory (with ABBA's "Waterloo"), a rule was passed in 1977 that the song had to be sung in one of the official languages of the performing country.
This was invoked at the 1991 contest, to resolve a tie between Sweden and France.
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 Eurovision_Song_Contest_2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was the 50th Eurovision competition and was held in Kiev, Ukraine on May 21, 2005.
The Olsen Brothers, winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 entered a song in the competition in the hope of repeating their triumph but placed only 2nd.
Indeed, for many weeks the song, which almost certainly owes its victory to its familiarity as an unofficial anthem of the Orange Revolution, appeared to be in danger of falling foul of two criteria for eligibility as an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1962 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With as the presenter, the contest was won by Isabelle Aubret who represented France, with her song "Un Premier Amour".
Each jury member awarded their favourite song 3 points, their second favourite song 2 points and their third favourite song 1 point.
All 10 jury members points would then be added up and the song with the most points would get 3 points, the song with the second most points would get 2 points and the song with the third most points would get 1 point.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1973 - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With Helga Guitton as the presenter, the contest was won by Anne-Marie David who represented Luxembourg, with her song "Tu Te Reconnaitras".
The language rule that only allowed countries to enter songs that were sung in any of their national languages was dropped, this led to some countries to sing in English.
The event was marked with a scandal as the Spanish song, Eres tú, was accused of plagiarism due to suggestions that it was merely a rewrite of the Yugoslav) entry from the 1966 contest (Brez besed sung by Berta Ambrož).
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 Eurovision Song Contest 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 is the fifty-first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Athens, Greece due to Elena Paparizou's win in the 2005 contest.
The scheduled dates for the contest are 18 May 2006 for the Semi Final and 20 May 2006 for the Final.
It is rumoured currently that the only new country will be Georgia, scheduled to become an active EBU member in October 2005.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1987 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was the 32nd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 9, 1987 in Brussels.
Johnny Logan was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, Hold Me Now.
Each Country had a Jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.
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 Eurovision Song Contest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The last time the United Kingdom won the contest was just after the EU-sceptic Conservative government of John Major was heavily defeated by the more EU-friendly Tony Blair (although the country had come second in both 1992 and 1993, during the Major administration).
The 2005 contest saw France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, the four largest contributors to the EBU who automaticaly qualify for the final, occupying the four bottom positions of the final, each with fewer than 20 points.
In the contest of that year, Switzerland (who finished seventh), were leading prior to the results of the Eastern Block being announced.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Eurovision-Song-Contest.htm   (2978 words)

  
 United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994
The UK entered "We Will be Free (Lonely Symphony)", performed by Frances Ruffelle, for the 1994 contest.
United Kingdom in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1994   (81 words)

  
 12 May 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Laura’s favourite Eurovision song from the past was the Greek song from last year, ‘Shake It, Shake It’.
The song that appears on the CD was described as a symphony with a 64-piece orchestra, and the CD features an English version, a French version and a pop-rock version.
The band’s favourite Eurovision song is “Dschinghis Khan” by Dschinghis Khan, and they performed an impromptu glam-rock cover version, complete with an electric guitar and mini amp.
www.eurovision.tv /english/1202.htm   (2214 words)

  
 Eurovision Song Contest 2004 Results
The 2004 Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Abdi Ipekci Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey.
This is the first Eurovision Song Contest to have a semi final and a final.
Unconfirmed, the date for the Eurovision Song Contest 50th Contest Semi Final 2005 is Wednesday 18 May 2005 and the Final is on Saturday 21 May 2005.
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 Junior_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was held on November 20, 2004, in Håkons Hall, Lillehammer, Norway with a live television show of 2 hours and 15 minutes presented by Stian Barsnes Simonsen and Nadia Hasnaoui which was broadcast in 20 countries and viewed by 100 million people.
The contest was won by 9-year-old María Isabel with her song Antes muerta que sencilla (Better dead than simple).
She received the award out of the hands of Dino Jelusic, who won the contest in 2003.
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The Eurovision Song Contest, which has a great tradition and heritage going back to 1956, is one of the very few truly pan-European television programmes and is watched by up to 100 million people every year.
In 2002 Constantinos was again in the Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn, Estonia, as the leader singer of ONE representing Cyprus with the song ‘Gimme’ and reaching the 6th place.
She was asked to sing a song for the Dutch National Song Contest and felt that she had "nothing left to lose".
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 Encyclopedia: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Germany held a national preselection to choose the two songs that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1956.
It was held on May 1, 1956 and was presented by Heinz Piper.
"So geht das jede Nacht" and "Das Lied vom großen Glück" were the dual winners of the national selection, but neither prevailed at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest, which was won by the Swiss entry "Refrain", sung by Lys Assia.
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 OGAE Greece Website
Her entry, composed by Thanos Kalliris, a former Greek participant in the Eurovision Song Contest ("Stop", 1987) finished 2nd in the televoting and 3rd in the jury-voting, during the Greek Final.
Nine songs from the Greek Final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 competed in the preselection.
The OGAE Second Chance Contest is a competition to which the national OGAE clubs contribute with a song from theirs country national final for the Eurovision Song Contest, a song that didn't make it to the Big Final itself.
users.forthnet.gr /lim/apokou/ogaescc02.html   (456 words)

  
 Eurovision Song Contest
Alcazar is the disco group which reached the third place in the contest 2003 with "Not a sinner nor a saint".
Sounds typical Nordman, but the song is not as good as their hits in the 90's.
There are some influences from her entry in 1987 "Högt över havet" and After Dark's "La dolce vita" from last year.
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The songs are performed and a jury in each of the participant countries votes for its favourite song.
The rules of the contest specify that the juries should judge the quality of the song and not of the performance.
In the words of the well-known BBC disc jockey John Peel, "the reason the music industry is not interested in the Eurovision Song Contest, is that it is impossible to fix the result".
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 The Eurovision Song Contest
The Irish Republic had a tendency to dominate the contest for quite a few years -but analyzing the figures since the contest began in 1956, most critics agree that the UK has had the most consistent success.
The song is quite similar in style to the Greek winner and Javine gave a flawless performance.
As the contest proceeds you all eat and drink what you've collected for each country while their song is on the air.
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 Eurovision Song Contest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Morocco took part in Eurovision for the first (and until now) last time.
Israel couldn’t host the contest after realising it was due to take place on 9 April, a Holocaust memorial day.
It was the year of accusations Eurovision had become boring and was generally ‘old hat.’ Even the attempt to liven things up by announcing each entry in the country’s national language failed to win any fans.
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 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Eurovision Song Contest
Started in 1956, this European song contest is held annually in May. The contest is intended to encourage the production of high-quality music through international comparison.
Each participating country chooses a contestant through a national competition.
During the live telecast of the European final the winner is chosen by televoting, in which the viewers vote by telephone.
encarta.msn.com /media_701500941/Eurovision_Song_Contest.html   (65 words)

  
 Flanders: Ruslana first to reach number 1 since 1987 | Eurovision Song Contest 2006 at esctoday.com
With her Wild dances she's the first Eurovision Song Contest winner to reach the number 1 spot in the Flemish Ultratop since Johnny Logan in 1987.
This year's Swedish representative is the third 2004 Eurovision Song Contest participant in Ultratop, as Xandee's 1 Life is still on number 17 after charting for already 15 consecutive weeks.
You might not like the song but she won ESC 2004 and now she is on European charts.
www.esctoday.com /news/read/2845   (1074 words)

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