#BIRTHDAY: Lado Leskovar is 80 today What’s your favourite type of song? Is it one that celebrates love? Or one that tells us about what we’re doing to the planet? Or something darker? They all have a place in our favourite TV show. And back in the 1960s, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sandie Shaw from the UK is 75 today It’s often good to be the first to do something. No one can take that “I was first…” accolade away from you, even though others may do the same thing bigger and better. Today we have a first, on […]
#BIRTHDAY: Inge Brück from Germany is 85 today We all go through dark times, but friends will help you. No matter what it is. Don’t forget that. And people sing about things getting better, because they often do. But onto today’s song. I’ve gone vintage. Really vintage. Black […]
#BIRTHDAY: Vicky Leandros is 72 today Being a winner at our favourite TV show is something no-one can take away from you. Few have won, and even fewer have won at their second attempt. And fewer still have won – at their second attempt – for a country […]
#BIRTHDAY: Raphael from Spain is 78 today It must be galling when your country wins, and you went and performed for them the year before that win. Obviously, there have been occasions where a country has won (at least) two years running. It must have been even worse […]
#OBITUARY: Fredi from Finland has died aged 78 Veteran of two Eurovision Song Contests Matti Kalevi Siitonen, also known as Fredi, has died aged 78. A popular figure in the Finnish music scene. he had a career that spanned some 45 years. Eurovision fans will know him from […]
#BIRTHDAY: Géraldine Gaulier from Switzerland is 75 today We love vintage here. There is more to Eurovision than someone clucking in ultra high definition. There were days when we had nothing more than respectable black & white, and an altogether more demure look. Today we go back to […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sandie Shaw from the UK is 74 today It’s often good to be the first to do something. No one can take that “I was first…” accolade away from you, even though others may do the same thing bigger and better. Today we have a first, on […]
OBITUARY: Writer Bill Martin has died aged 81 Songwriter, musician and impresario Bill Martin has died aged 81. You may not immediately recognise the name, but with his writing partner Phil Coulter, has written several Eurovision songs that have since become classics. Born William Wylie MacPherson in Glasgow […]
BIRTHDAY: Lado Leskovar of Yugoslavia is 78 today What’s your favourite type of song? Is it one that celebrates love? Or one that tells us about what we’re doing to the planet? Or something darker? They all have a place in our favourite TV show. And back in […]