#BIRTHDAY: Franca di Rienzo from Switzerland is 85 today Let’s go back in time. After all, there were contests in the 20th Century, even though that now seems an awful long time ago. They were simpler affairs, with a single show with a live orchestra and a distinct […]
#BIRTHDAY: Greetje Kauffeld from the Netherlands is 84 today Today we go back a few years. Yes, definitely quite a few years. After all, it would be a dull old thing if I just picked 21st Century songs. And if you don’t know any songs from the last […]
#BIRTHDAY: John Allison from the UK is 82 today Another year ends, and we have a birthday to delight you. As you’ll know, the contest started deep in the 20th Century, so we’re going back to those early days. The United Kingdom of stuff had a proud reputation […]
#BIRTHDAY: Conchita Bautista from Spain is 85 today The Big Five qualifying for the Grand Final can be a contentious thing. But there are reasons why they’re there, not least because they’ve been taking part since the very early days. The most recent débutante of the Big Five […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dario Campeotto from Denmark is 82 today As you should know, there’s more to Eurovision than the contests of the 21st Century. We can go way back. Yes, even before 1995. There were contests in wondrous black & white, and that’s where we go today. Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: Franca di Rienzo is 82 today What do you do if your country doesn’t pick you to represent them at our favourite TV show? You find someone else who will. It helps if you can sing in a selection of languages too. Today’s birthday girl Franca di […]
BIRTHDAY: John Allison from the UK is 80 today Another year ends, and we have a birthday to delight you. As you’ll know, the contest started deep in the 20th Century, so we’re going back to those early days. The United Kingdom of stuff had a proud reputation […]
BIRTHDAY: Laila Kinnunen from Finland would have been 80 today That first entry. Always daunting for a broadcaster. What will Europe think of us? How will we do? Will we have the money to take part every year? Back in the 1960s, participation was easier. Eurovision was a […]
BIRTHDAY: Jean-Claude Pascal representing Luxembourg would have been 92 today Occasionally, we like to look back – right back – at early contests. It’s important no to forget our history as if it wasn’t for events on a May evening in 1956, we wouldn’t have had the lunacy […]
#OBITUARY: Sweden’s Lill-Babs has died Sweden’s entrant in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest, Lill-Babs, has died aged 80 after a short illness. Born Barbro Margareta Svensson on 9 March 1938, she is best known in Eurovision circles for singing ‘April, April’ when the contest was held in Cannes in […]
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