All the highs and 10115 of over sixty years of Eurovision, from Celiné Dion to Dustin the Turkey, and from ABBA to Conchita Wurst: plenty of silly costumes, truly terrible lyrics an all-round unbeatable entertainment.
Since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest has existed in a parallel universe that continues to beguile and bemuse in equal measure. In this glittering, magical world, a song about the construction of a hydro-electric power station ist cutting-edge pop, half a dozen warbling Russion grandmothers make up a band, a song that repets the word ‚la‘ 138 times is a winner, and Australia is part of Europe.
There has been scandal, too, in the form of an over-long kiss; national outrage in 1976 as a result of the Greek entry’s savage indictment of Turkish foreign policy in Cyprus; and a night of near-death in Luxembourg when the floor manager warned the audiance against standing up to applaud because they might be shot by security forces.
Autoren: Geoff Tibballs
Verlag: Robinson
1. Auflage, 2016 (Erstveröffentlichung 2016, Vereinigtes Königreich)
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