Post by uthacalthing on Sept 25, 2023 20:48:50 GMT
written and composed by Julie Forsyth, daugfhter of Bruce, this unmemorable drone was the UKs entry for Eurovision in 1988. The contest was held in Dublin as a result of the 1987 Irish win by the serially unmemorable Johnny Logan.
This edition features one of the closest and most fickle-ending votes in the history of the contest. With three countries left to vote, the UK was well in the lead with 133 points against Switzerland's 118. With the third last country, France, only awarding Switzerland one point, the UK looked certain of victory, as even if Switzerland scooped the two final 12s, the UK would only need to gather eleven points from three juries combined to be unbeatable. However, France didn't award the UK any points, and the following country, Portugal, gave the UK a meagre three points while giving the maximum 12 to Switzerland, making the contest blown open between the two countries until the end of the voting.
With the conclusion of voting from the penultimate jury, the UK was holding a five-point lead over Switzerland. As the final jury, that of Yugoslavia, began to award its points in the customary ascending order, a lot of excitement-sighs were heard from the audience to see how the two rivals for victory would fare. Switzerland was the first to be named with six points, edging it into a one-point lead over the UK. After earlier strong votes from most countries to the UK, it seemed highly likely that the UK would be given one of the higher remaining set of points. However, as Yugoslavia announced its seven, eight, ten and twelve points, it transpired that it had awarded the UK no points at all (12 points from Yugoslavia went to France), [d] and Switzerland was left with its one-point lead to savour a dramatic triumph.
And thus Celine Dion came to public attention.
Rene Angélil and Dion began a personal relationship in 1988 when she was twenty years old. Their relationship began the night Celine won the Eurovision Song Contest on 30 April 1988.
Whats French for Euphemism? Rene Angélil began managing Celine Dion when she was 12 years old, he mortgaged his house to promote her career for ten years before Eurovision. He married her in 1994 and they remained married until his death in 2016.
The last two paragraphs belong in the Russell Brand thread on the subject of intimate relationships between legal adults where an imbalance of age and power exists.
But think how different it would have been if Scott Fitzgerald had won Eurovision
