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Eurovision Song Contest 1984

Eurovision Song Contest 1984

Dates

Final date 5 May 1984

Host

Venue Grand TheatreLuxembourg, Luxembourg

Presenter(s) Désirée Nosbusch

Conductor Pierre Cao

Director Rene Steichen

Executive supervisor Frank Naef

Host broadcaster RTL Télévision (RTL)

Opening act In an introductory video, Pierre Cao and the RTL orchestra performed instrumental versions of all the past Eurovisionwinners from Luxembourg.

Interval act Prague Theatre of Illuminated Drawings

Participants

Number of entries 19

Debuting countries None

Returning countries  Ireland

Withdrawing countries  Greece  Israel

Vote

Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs

Nul points None

Winning song  Sweden"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley"

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The Eurovision Song Contest 1984, the 29th event of its kind, was held on 5 May 1984 in Luxembourg. Thepresenter, Désirée Nosbusch, only 19 years old at the time, hosted the show in a lax manner, which was quiteunusual for the show at the time. She manifested her fluency in four languages by switching between a strongtransatlantic English, French, German and Luxembourgish in the course of talking, often in the same sentence.Sweden's the Herreys were the winners of this contest with the song, "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". This was the Nordiccountry's second win, and the first song performed in Swedish. The previous Swedish winner, ABBA, ten years agohad performed their song "Waterloo" in English.

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Israel withdrew from the contest due to Yom Hazikaron (Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel andVictims of Terrorism) being commemorated on the same date. Iceland was going to participate but withdrew due tolack of financial support. 1984 is also a notable for the audible booing that could be heard from the audience,particularly at the end of the UK's performance. It was said that the booing was due to English football hooliganshaving rioted in Luxembourg in November 1983 after being knocked out of the UEFA European FootballChampionship. However, the song itself managed a pretty good showing, reaching seventh place.A few days after the contest a woman named Jean Westwood said that she was one of three women who sang forBelle and the Devotions, but they were in hiding. There were rumours that the song was stolen from the Motownclassic Baby Love, an international hit in 1964, and originally recorded by Diana Ross and The Supremes.

ConductorsHost conductor in bold

•  Sweden - Curt-Eric Holmquist •  Netherlands - Rogier van Otterloo•  Luxembourg - Pascal Stive •  Yugoslavia - Mato Dosen

•  France - François Rauber •  Austria - Richard Österreicher•  Spain - Eddy Guerin •  Germany - Pierre Cao

•  Norway - Sigurd Jansen •  Turkey - Selçuk Basar•  United Kingdom - John Coleman •  Finland - Ossi Runne•  Cyprus - Pierre Cao •   Switzerland - Mario Robbiani•  Belgium - Jo Carlier •  Italy - Giusto Pio•  Ireland - Noel Kelehan •  Portugal - Pedro Osório•  Denmark - Henrik Krogsgaard

Returning artists

Artist Country Previous year(s)

Mary Roos  Germany 1972

Izolda Barudžija  Yugoslavia 1982 (part of Aska), 1983 (part of Danijel's back vocals)

Results

Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points

01  Sweden Swedish Herreys "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" - 1 145

02  Luxembourg French Sophie Carle "100% d'amour" 100% of Love 10 39

03  France French Annick Thoumazeau "Autant d'amoureux qued'étoiles"

As Many Lovers As Stars 8 61

04  Spain Spanish Bravo "Lady, Lady" - 3 106

05  Norway Norwegian Dollie de Luxe "Lenge leve livet" Long Live Life 17 29

06  UnitedKingdom

English Belle & the Devotions "Love Games" - 7 63

07  Cyprus Greek Andy Paul "Anna Maria Lena"(Άννα Μαρία Λένα)

- 15 31

08  Belgium French Jacques Zegers "Avanti la vie" Go Forward In Life 5 70

09  Ireland English Linda Martin "Terminal 3" - 2 137

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10  Denmark Danish Hot Eyes "Det' lige det" That's Just It 4 101

11  Netherlands Dutch Maribelle "Ik hou van jou" I Love You 13 34

12  Yugoslavia Croatian Vlado & Isolda "Ciao, amore" Goodbye, My Love 18 26

13  Austria German Anita "Einfach weg" Just Get Away 19 5

14  Germany German Mary Roos "Aufrecht geh'n" Walk Tall 13 34

15  Turkey Turkish Beş Yıl Önce, On YılSonra

"Halay" - 12 37

16  Finland Finnish Kirka "Hengaillaan" Let's Hang Around 9 46

17   Switzerland German Rainy Day "Welche Farbe hat derSonnenschein?"

What Colour Is TheSunshine?

16 30

18  Italy Italian Alice & Franco Battiato "I treni di Tozeur" The Trains Of Tozeur 5 70

19  Portugal Portuguese Maria Guinot "Silêncio e tanta gente" Silence And So ManyPeople

11 38

Voting structureBefore the contest, Sweden was not expected to win or even achieve a high placing. In the run-up to the Contest,bookmakers Ladbrokes had the lowest odds on songs from Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Sweden wasconsidered a "dark horse" entry with high odds.Each country had a jury that awarded one to eight, 10 and 12 points for their top ten songs.At the close of the penultimate jury's votes, there was only a difference of six points between Sweden and Ireland, at141 and 135 respectively. However, Yugoslavia was the only country who had not given any points to Ireland, andPortugal, the last jury, gave that western country only two points, crushing their chances. Portugal's voting also costDenmark, who had been holding at a strong third position, even leading the scoreboard for a short time, in that place,when Portugal's 12 lifted Spain from 94 to 106 points. Portugal at the same time had only given Denmark one pointmaking Denmark's total 101 points. Despite this, this was latter country's best position in over 20 years.Halfway through the voting, the scoreboard turned blue and remained so until the end of the voting. This was visibleonly to television viewers.

Score sheet

Results

Sweden 145 6 6 4 10 7 12 7 12 12 10 4 12 12 3 8 10 6 4

Luxembourg 39 7 7 5 5 8 4 3

France 61 2 2 6 3 10 12 8 4 7 7

Spain 106 10 8 10 6 4 6 3 7 7 2 2 6 12 3 8 12

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Norway 29 8 7 1 3 2 6 2

United Kingdom 63 3 1 3 8 2 2 8 1 4 1 2 7 1 4 10 6

Cyprus 31 4 1 4 10 12

Belgium 70 12 12 2 3 8 3 4 5 10 1 10

Ireland 137 12 5 3 10 4 8 10 12 3 7 10 10 10 7 12 12 2

Denmark 101 5 3 8 6 12 12 5 8 10 3 6 4 5 2 5 1 5 1

Netherlands 34 2 7 8 1 6 5 5

Yugoslavia 26 2 3 8 3 8 2

Austria 5 1 4

Germany 34 4 7 2 6 2 5 1 2 5

Turkey 37 6 5 4 2 1 10 3 6

Finland 46 7 5 1 5 4 6 3 5 1 6 3

Switzerland 30 1 10 1 5 8 1 4

Italy 70 10 12 1 7 6 7 12 7 8

Portugal 38 4 5 6 7 8 8

12 pointsBelow is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N. Contestant Voting nation

5 Sweden Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland

4 Ireland Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland

2 Belgium France, Luxembourg

Denmark Norway, United Kingdom

Italy Spain, Finland

Spain Portugal, Turkey

1 Cyprus Yugoslavia

France Netherlands

Commentators•  Sweden - Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1)•  Luxembourg - Valérie Sarn & Jacques Navadic (RTL Télévision), TBC (RTL plus)•  France - Léon Zitrone (Antenne 2)•  Spain - José-Miguel Ullán (TVE2)•  Norway - Roald Øyen (NRK)•  United Kingdom – Terry Wogan (BBC1)[1]

•  Cyprus - Pavlos Pavlou (RIK)[2]

•  Belgium - Jacques Mercier (RTBF1), Luc Appermont (BRT TV1)[3]

•  Ireland - Gay Byrne (RTÉ1), Jimmy Greeley (RTÉ Radio 1)•  Denmark - Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV)•  Netherlands - Ivo Niehe (Nederland 1)

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•  Yugoslavia - Mladen Popović (TVB2), Oliver Mlakar (TVZ 2), Tomaž Terček (TVL1)•  Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS2)•  Germany - Ado Schlier (ARD Deutsches Fernsehen), Roger Horné (Deutschlandfunk)•  Turkey - Başak Doğru (TRT)•  Finland - Heikki Seppälä (YLE TV1)•   Switzerland - Bernard Thurnheer (TV DRS), Serge Moisson (TSR), Ezio Guidi (TSI)•  Italy - Antonio De Robertis (Raidue and Rai Radio 1)•  Portugal - Fialho Gouveia (RTP1)•  Iceland - (non participating country) - TBC(Sjónvarpið)•  Israel - (non participating country) - No commentator

Spokespersons•  Sweden - Agneta Bolme Börjefors•  Luxembourg - Jacques Harvey•  France - Gillette Aho•  Spain - Matilde Fernández Jarrín•  Norway - Egil Teige[4]

•  United Kingdom – Colin Berry•  Cyprus - Anna Partelidou•  Belgium - Jacques Olivier•  Ireland - John Skehan•  Denmark - Bent Henius•  Netherlands - Flip van der Schalie[5]

•  Yugoslavia - Snežana Lipkovska-Hadžinaumova•  Austria - Tilia Herold•  Germany - Kerstin Schweighöfer•  Turkey - Fatih Orbay•  Finland - Solveig Herlin•   Switzerland - Michel Stocker[6]

•  Italy - Mariolina Cannuli•  Portugal - Carlos Ribeiro

National jury members•  Spain – Francisco Guardón (lab employee and photography expert), Carmen González (translator), Rafael

Rullán (basketball player), Mayte Sancho (actress), Victoriano Valencia (former bullfighter and businessman),Andrés Magdaleno (actor and theatre businessman), Eva Nasarre (ballet and gymnastics teacher), Luis del Val(playwright), Carmen Garrido (public relations), Luis Fernando Abad (industrialist), Conchita Mínguez(horsewoman)

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References[1] Eurovision Song Contest 1984 BBC Archives (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ programmes/ p007xr5f)[2][2] Savvidis, Christos (OGAE Cyprus)[3] Adriaens, Manu & Loeckx-Van Cauwenberge, Joken. Blijven kiken!. Lannoo, Belgium. 2003 ISBN 90-209-5274-9[4][4] Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)[5][5] Leidse Courant, 5 May 1984[6][6] Baumann, Peter Ramón (OGAE Switzerland)

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