eurovision song contest 1985
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Eurovision Song Contest 1985 1
Eurovision Song Contest 1985
Eurovision Song Contest 1985
Dates
Final date 4 May 1985
Host
Venue ScandinaviumGothenburg, Sweden
Presenter(s) Lill Lindfors
Conductor Curt-Eric Holmquist
Director Steen Priwin
Executive supervisor Frank Naef
Host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT)
Opening act Lill Lindfors singing "My Joy is Building Bricks of Music"
Interval act Guitars Unlimited with Swedish Evergreens
Participants
Number of entries 19
Debuting countries None
Returning countries Greece Israel
Withdrawing countries Netherlands Yugoslavia
Vote
Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points None
Winning song Norway"La det swinge"
Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was the 30th event since its inception in 1956, and was held on 4 May 1985 inGothenburg, Sweden. The presenter was entertainer Lill Lindfors, whose jokey dress rip after the interval act(seemingly revealing her knickers before unfolding another dress) was said to have not amused the wife of EBUscrutineer Frank Naef, and Norwegian duo Bobbysocks! were the winners of this contest with the song "La detswinge".Bobbysocks!' win for Norway was the country's first. Host Lill Lindfors congratulated the duo, Hanne Krogh and Elisabeth Andreassen, following their victory by saying, "I must say I am honestly very happy that this happened
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because Norway has been last on so many times that you really deserve it!" Krogh replied, "You're happy? What doyou think we are?!" After an energetic reprise, the two women embraced to a standing ovation from the audience.During the voting, it was not immediately evident that Norway would win the Contest. Germany took a commandinglead in the first half, with Norway fifth place behind Germany, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom around theend of the first half of voting. Finally, with five juries left, Germany, Sweden and Norway were tightly wrappedaround the pole positions with 87, 86, and 85 points respectively.At that point, Sweden briefly took the lead away from Germany (who received no points from Switzerland). Swedenwas the fourth-to-last jury, conceding their brief lead by awarding Germany eight points and Norway the maximumtwelve. With only three countries left to vote, Norway kept the lead, in one of the shortest winning stretches duringvoting in the contest's history.The Netherlands and Yugoslavia did not participate in this Contest, due to the national Remembrance of the Dead inthe Netherlands, and the anniversary of the death of Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia. Despite this Yugoslavia didchoose its song: "Pokora" ("Penance"´) (music by Ivo Pupačić and lyrics by Zvonimir Pupačić), a duet sung byZorica Kondža and Josip Genda.1985 was also the year when no less than thirteen previous Eurovision artists made a comeback. This also applied tothe winners, Bobbysocks! who had attended once before as soloists: Hanne Krogh performed for Norway in 1971,while Elisabeth Andreassen for Sweden (where she is originally from) in 1982 in a duet, Chips, with KikkiDanielsson. Kikki herself also returned this year for host country Sweden, and was thus competing against ElisabethAndreassen and Bobbysocks!.Lys Assia, the winner of the first ever Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, was the guest of honour of this thirtiethedition of the Eurovision Song Contest. She was introduced by the presenter Lill Lindfors. The camera zoomed closeto Lys, who rose to greet the audience, while the orchestra played the song Refrain, her winning song.
ConductorsHost conductor in bold
• Ireland - Noel Kelehan • Israel - Kobi Oshrat• Finland - Ossi Runne • Italy - Fiorenzo Zanotti• Cyprus - Haris Andreadis • Norway - Terje Fjærn• Denmark - Wolfgang Käfer • United Kingdom - John Coleman
• Spain - Juan Carlos Calderón • Switzerland - Anita Kerr• France - Michel Bernholc • Sweden - Curt-Eric Holmquist
• Turkey - Garo Mafyan • Austria - Richard Österreicher• Belgium - Curt-Eric Holmquist • Luxembourg - Norbert Daum• Portugal - José Calvário • Greece - Haris Andreadis• Germany - Rainer Pietsch
Returning artists
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Artist Country Previous year(s)
Gary Lux Austria 1983 (member of Westend)
Lia Vissi Cyprus 1980 (member of Epikouri, for Greece)
Hot Eyes Denmark 1984
Izhar Cohen Israel 1978 (winner)
Al Bano & Romina Power Italy 1976
Ireen Sheer Luxembourg 1974, 1978 (for Germany)
Hanne Krogh (part of Bobbysocks!) Norway 1971
Elisabeth Andreassen (part of Bobbysocks!) Norway 1982 (for Sweden, part of Chips)
Kikki Danielsson Sweden 1982 (part of Chips)
Pino Gasparini Switzerland 1977 (part of Pepe Lienhard Band)
Mariella Farré Switzerland 1983
Results
Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
01 Ireland English Maria Christian "Wait Until the WeekendComes"
– 6 91
02 Finland Finnish Sonja Lumme "Eläköön elämä" Long live life 9 58
03 Cyprus Greek Lia Vissi "To Katalava Arga" (Τοκατάλαβα αργά)
I realised it too late 16 15
04 Denmark Danish Hot Eyes "Sku' du spørg' fra no'en?" What business is it ofyours?
11 41
05 Spain Spanish Paloma San Basilio "La fiesta terminó" The party's over 14 36
06 France French Roger Bens "Femme dans ses rêves aussi" Woman in her dreamstoo
10 56
07 Turkey Turkish MFÖ "Didai didai dai" – 14 36
08 Belgium Dutch Linda Lepomme "Laat me nu gaan" Let me go now 19 7
09 Portugal Portuguese Adelaide "Penso em ti, eu sei" Thinking of you, Iknow
18 9
10 Germany German Wind "Für alle" For everyone 2 105
11 Israel Hebrew Izhar Cohen "Olé, Olé" (עולה, עולה) Going up and up 5 93
12 Italy Italian Al Bano & Romina Power "Magic Oh Magic" – 7 78
13 Norway Norwegian Bobbysocks! "La det swinge" Let it swing 1 123
14 UnitedKingdom
English Vikki "Love Is" – 4 100
15 Switzerland German Mariella Farré & PinoGasparini
"Piano, Piano" Slowly, slowly 12 39
16 Sweden Swedish Kikki Danielsson "Bra vibrationer" Good vibrations 3 103
17 Austria German Gary Lux "Kinder dieser Welt" Children of this world 8 60
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18 Luxembourg French Margo, Franck Olivier,Diane Solomon, IreenSheer,Chris & Malcolm Roberts
"Children, Kinder, Enfants" Children 13 37
19 Greece Greek Takis Biniaris "Miazoume" (Μοιάζουμε) We are alike 16 15
VotingEach country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.The voting itself was exciting, the German favourites looked to be cruising to an early victory. However bothSweden and Norway did their best to keep up and by the time the UK jury delivered their votes (only 1 point forGermany and 12 for Norway), Germany had seen its lead smashed.Lill Lindfors had a wardrobe malfunction (though technically this is a misnomer, as the stunt was deliberate) as sheproceeded to the stage for the voting procedure. As she walked on stage, the skirt of her dress came away, leavingher in just her underwear and the top half of her dress. After a few seconds of pretending to be shocked, Lindforsunfastened the flaps of her dress across her shoulders, to reveal a full-length white gown, much to raucous audienceapplause. Lill then took her seat to start calling in the votes, and nonchalantly said, "I just wanted to wake you up alittle."
Score sheet
Results
Ireland 91 1 7 3 4 3 5 8 8 4 8 12 3 3 5 7 10
Finland 58 6 6 6 3 1 7 7 2 10 10
Cyprus 15 1 3 3 8
Denmark 41 3 10 3 1 6 2 6 5 5
Spain 36 2 8 1 12 2 4 1 6
France 56 5 4 1 3 3 10 2 4 6 3 3 12
Turkey 36 7 2 3 1 2 1 8 12
Belgium 7 7
Portugal 9 2 7
Germany 105 4 10 12 10 10 8 10 7 7 8 1 8 10
Israel 93 8 5 4 8 12 5 7 5 10 5 7 2 7 6 2
Italy 78 6 10 1 12 5 8 2 12 4 6 12
Norway 123 12 4 12 1 2 12 12 12 6 12 6 12 12 7 1
United Kingdom 100 5 7 5 5 6 10 6 6 5 2 8 7 10 4 2 8 4
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Switzerland 39 3 2 6 6 5 4 1 5 1 1 2 3
Sweden 103 10 12 8 2 7 4 7 8 6 4 12 6 8 4 5
Austria 60 3 7 1 4 10 10 2 10 1 3 4 5
Luxembourg 37 2 4 10 3 5 1 4 8
Greece 15 8 7
12 pointsBelow is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
N. Contestant Voting nation
8 Norway Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Sweden, United Kingdom
3 Italy Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain
2 Sweden Finland, Norway
1 France Greece
Germany Cyprus
Ireland Italy
Israel France
Spain Turkey
Turkey Switzerland
Commentators
Television• Ireland - Linda Martin (RTÉ 1)• Finland - Heikki Harma & Kari Lumikero (YLE TV1)• Cyprus - Themis Themistokleous (RIK)[1]
• Denmark - Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV)• Spain - Antonio Gómez (TVE2)• France – Patrice Laffont (Antenne 2)• Turkey - Başak Doğru (TRT)• Belgium - Luc Appermont (BRT TV1),[2] Jacques Mercier (RTBF1)• Portugal - Eládio Clímaco (RTP1)• Germany - Ado Schlier (Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen)• Israel - No commentator• Italy - Rosanna Vaudetti (Raidue)• Norway - Veslemøy Kjendsli (NRK)• United Kingdom - Terry Wogan (BBC 1)[3]
• Switzerland - Bernard Thurnheer (DRS), Serge Moisson (SSR), Ezio Guidi (TSI)• Sweden - Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1)• Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS1)• Luxembourg - Valérie Sarn (RTL Télévision), Oliver Spiecker (RTL plus)• Greece - Mako Georgiadou (ERT)• Netherlands (non participating country) - Gerrit den Braber (Olympus TV)[A]
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• Iceland (non participating country) - Hinrik Bjarnason (Sjónvarpið)• Poland (non participating country) - Bogusław Brelik (TP1)
Radio• Ireland - Jimmy Greeley (RTÉ Radio 1)• Finland - Jake Nyman (YLE Radio Suomi)• Cyprus - Neophytos Taliotis (CyBC Radio 2)• Denmark - Poul Birch Eriksen (DR P3)• Spain - N/A• France - Julien Lepers (France Inter)• Turkey - Bülent Osma (TRT Radyo 3)• Belgium - Paul De Meulder(BRT Radio 2), Jacques Olivier (RTBF La Première)• Portugal - N/A• Germany - Roger Horné (Deutschlandfunk/hr3)• Israel - Daniel Pe'er (Reshet Gimel)• Italy - Franco Fabbri (Rai Radio 1)• Norway - Jahn Teigen and Erik Heyerdahl (NRK P1)• United Kingdom - N/A• Switzerland - TBC• Sweden - Jan Ellerås and Rune Hallberg (SR P3)• Austria - Walter Richard Langer (Hitradio Ö3)• Luxembourg - André Torrent (RTL Radio)• Greece - N/A• Iceland (non participating country) - TBC
Spokespersons• Ireland - John Skehan• Finland - Annemi Genetz• Cyprus - Anna Partelidou• Denmark - Bent Henius• Spain - Matilde Fernández Jarrín• France – Élisabeth Tordjman• Turkey - Fatih Orbay• Belgium - Anne Ploegaerts• Portugal - Maria Margarida Gaspar• Germany - Christoph Deumling• Israel - Yitzhak Shim'oni• Italy - Beatrice Cori• Norway - Erik Diesen[4]
• United Kingdom - Colin Berry• Switzerland - Michel Stocker[5]
• Sweden - Agneta Bolme-Börjefors• Austria - Chris Lohner• Luxembourg - Frédérique Ries• Greece - Kelly Sakakou
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National jury members• Spain – María Asquerino (actress), Eloy Román (industrialist), María Dolores Ortiz (teacher), Jesús María
Landín (student), Adriana Ferrer (actress), Agustín Trialasos (journalist), Cristina Peña-Marín (lecturer),Francisco Umbral (writer), Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada (fashion designer), César Alonso (jockey), Pilar de la Huerta(tourism management technician)
Notes• A ^ However the Eurovision Song Contest was not broadcast on Dutch television due to the Remembrance of the
Dead, it was broadcast the next morning via satellite project Olympus.
References[1][1] Savvidis, Christos (OGAE Cyprus)[2] Adriaens, Manu & Loeckx-Van Cauwenberge, Joken. Blijven kiken!. Lannoo, Belgium. 2003 ISBN 90-209-5274-9[3] Eurovision Song Contest 1985 BBC Archives (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ programmes/ p007xrdy)[4][4] Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)[5][5] Baumann, Peter Ramón (OGAE Switzerland)
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