- Eurovision Song Contest 1985
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Eurovision Song Contest 1985 Final date 4 May 1985 Presenter(s) Lill Lindfors Conductor Curt-Eric Holmquist Director Steen Priwin Host broadcaster SVT
Venue Scandinavium
Gothenburg, SwedenWinning song Norway
"La det swinge"Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs Number of entries 19 Debuting countries None Returning countries Greece
Israel
Withdrawing countries Netherlands
Yugoslavia
Nul points None Opening act Lill Lindfors singing "My Joy is Building Bricks of Music" Interval act Guitars Unlimited with Swedish Evergreens Eurovision Song Contest ◄1984 1986►
The Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was the 30th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 4 May 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The presenter was Lill Lindfors, and Norwegian duo Bobbysocks! was the winner of this Eurovision with the song "La det swinge".
Bobbysocks!' win for Norway was the country's first. Host Lill Lindfors, upon Norway's win, congratulated Hanne Krogh and Elisabeth Andreassen of Bobbysocks! by saying, "I must say I am honestly very happy that this happened because Norway has been last on so many times that you really deserve it!" Krogh replied, "You're happy? What do you 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 commanding lead in the first half, with Norway fifth place behind Germany, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom around the end of the first half of voting. Finally, with five juries left, Germany, Sweden and Norway were tightly wrapped around 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). Sweden was the fourth-to-last jury, conceding their brief lead by awarding Germany eight points and Norway the full twelve. With only three countries left to vote, Norway kept the lead, in one of the shortest winning stretches during voting in the Contest's history.
The Netherlands and Yugoslavia did not participate in this Contest, due to the national Remembrance of the Dead in the Netherlands, and the anniversary of the death of Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia.The song from Spain was the big favorite for the juries but finally came 14 in a fiel of 19.
Also is this year known to be the year in the History of the Eurovision Song Contest, where most of artists, 13 at all, made a comeback. This also applied to the winners, Bobbysocks! who had attended once before alone, Hanne Krogh as solo performer for Norway in 1971, Elisabeth Andreassen for her second country, Sweden, in 1982, in a duet with Kikki Danielsson, which this year also made a comeback, for Sweden, and was thus competing with Elisabeth Andreassen & Bobbysocks!.
Contents
Individual Entries
Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 Austria · Belgium · Cyprus · Denmark · Finland · France · Germany · Greece · Ireland · Israel · Italy · Luxembourg · Norway (winner) · Portugal · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · Turkey · United Kingdom
Results
Voting structure
Each 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 both Sweden and Norway did their best to keep up and by the time the UK jury delivered their votes (only 1 point for Germany and 12 for Norway), Germany had seen its lead smashed.
It is interesting to note that Norway scored the maximum 12 points from eight countries, just one short of Germany's record of nine in 1982. However, the Norwegian duo scored a total of just 27 points from the other ten juries (with no country awarding them 8 or 10 points). The winning score of 123 points is the lowest since the current scoring system was implemented in 1975. However, the winning score was broken at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with a Netherlands win with 121 points and broken again in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with a Armenia win with 120 points. With increasing number of participating nations it is very unlikely to win any future Eurovision Song Contest with lower result.
Score sheet
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
N. Recipient nation 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 Returning artists
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 Commentators
Ireland - Linda Martin (RTÉ 1), Jimmy Greeley (RTÉ Radio 1)
Finland - Heikki Harma & Kari Lumikero (YLE TV2)[1]
Cyprus - Themis Themistokleous (RIK)[2]
Denmark - Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV)[3]
Spain - Antonio Gómez (TVE2)[4]
France – Patrice Laffont (Antenne 2)[5]
Turkey - Başak Doğru (TRT)
Belgium - Luc Appermont (BRT TV1),[6] Jacques Mercier (RTBF1)[7]
Portugal - Eládio Clímaco (RTP1)[8]
Germany - Ado Schlier (Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen)[9]
Israel - No commentator
Italy - Rosanna Vaudetti (Raidue)
Norway - Veslemøy Kjendsli (NRK)[10], Jahn Teigen and Erik Heyerdahl (NRK P1)
United Kingdom - Terry Wogan (BBC 1)
Switzerland - Bernard Thurnheer (DRS), Serge Moisson (TSR), Giovanni Bertini (TSI)
Sweden - Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1), Jan Ellerås and Rune Hallberg (SR P3) [11]
Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS1)[12]
Luxembourg - Valérie Sarn (RTL Télévision)[13]
Greece - Mako Georgiadou (ERT)[14]
Netherlands (non participating country) - Gerrit den Braber (Olympus TV)[15][16][A]
Iceland - (non participating country) - Hinrik Bjarnason (Sjónvarpið)
Spokespersons
Ireland - John Skehan
Finland - Annemi Genetz[17]
Cyprus - Anna Partelidou[18]
Denmark - Bent Henius[19]
Spain - Matilde Jarrín
France – Élisabeth Tordjman
Turkey - Fatih Orbay
Belgium - An Ploegaerts
Portugal - Maria Margarida Gaspar
Germany - Christoph Deumling
Israel - Yitzhak Shim'oni[20]
Italy - Beatrice Cori
Norway - Erik Diesen[21]
United Kingdom - Colin Berry
Switzerland - Michel Stocker[22]
Sweden - Agneta Bolme-Börjefors[23]
Austria - TBC
Luxembourg - Frédérique Ries
Greece - Kelly Sakakou[24]
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)[25]
Trivia
- For a few seconds just before the voting, it looked like a scandal had happened, when Lill Lindfors "lost" her skirt. Immediately, she looked bewildered and seemed to desperately hide her lower body. After a few seconds however, it turned out to be a joke. Lindfors quickly rearranged some of her clothing and suddenly she wore a dress.[26]
- This was Norway's first victory, since first participating in the contest since 1960, and coming in last place at the 1963, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1978, and 1981 contests. The presenter Lill Lindfors commented with "Norway has come last so many times, so I really think you deserve this".
- The original choice of Belgian entry was "Vannacht" performed by Mireille Capelle. A dispute concerning the lyric of the song was responsible for its withdrawal.
- UK backing vocals were provided by Sue and Sunny. They had previously done the same job for Lulu in 1969 and Joy Fleming in 1975.
- UK commentator Terry Wogan was too ill to attend the contest in Sweden and instead provided commentary from London.
Notes
- A ^ However the Eurovision Song Contest wasn't broadcast on Dutch television due to the Remembrance of the Dead, it was broadcast the next morning via satellite project Olympus.
References
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