Horoscopes (song)

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Ireland Horoscopes


caption =
year = 1981
country = Ireland
artist = Irene McCoubrey, Marion Fossett, Frances Campbell
as = Sheeba
with =
language = English
languages =
composer = Jim Kelly
lyricist = Joe Burkett
conductor = Noel Kelehan
place = 5th
points = 105
place_semi =
points_semi =
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1981ie from Diggiloo Thrush]
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prev = What's Another Year
prev_link = What's Another Year
next = Here Today Gone Tomorrow
next_link = Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Horoscopes was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981, performed in English by Sheeba.

The song is an up-tempo number, with the girls singing about the fascination some people have with horoscopes and star signs. They explain that this is "crazy, crazy", because "It's we, not the stars above, who write our horoscopes". In other words, life is what we make of it, and not what a horoscope does ("Success comes from what we do, not from what we're told").
The three singers wore revealing green dresses during the performance.

The song was performed twelfth on the night (following the Netherlands' Linda Williams with Het Is Een Wonder and preceding Norway's Finn Kalvik with Aldri I Livet). At the close of voting, it had received 105 points, placing 5th in a field of 20.

It was succeeded as Irish representative at the 1982 Contest by The Duskeys with Here Today Gone Tomorrow.

See also

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981