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1967
Vienna, Austria,
 Winner:
United Kingdom, The first Eurovision win for the UK. Sandie sings a song in which the
protagonist becomes a foolish puppet for love, Sandie is said to
have disliked the song and never dreamt it would
win. Consequently, Sandie Shaw gave up her career as singer in the
70s. Saying that she couldn’t stand singing her Eurovision song any
more.
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1970
Amsterdam, Netherlands,
 Winner : Ireland, The first
Eurovision win for this country. Dana’s clear and simple performance
made the audience realised she could sing. The song reached No. 1 in
the pop charts of several countries and sold over a million copies
worldwide many other hits followed for Dana. |
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Puppet On A
String - Sandie Shaw |
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All Kinds
Of Everything - Dana |
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1974 Brighton, United Kingdom,
Winner : Sweden, Eurovision's most famous winners - Incredibly the
British jury gave 'Waterloo' no points at all. 'Waterloo' went to
no.1 in the UK charts, the first of ABBA's 9 number one hits.
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1975 Stockholm, Sweden,
Winner : Netherlands, The song’s catchy tune
guaranteed its success. The lead singer of the group, Getty Kaspers,
was Austrian but lived in the Netherlands. In 1997 she moved back to
her home country.
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Waterloo -
ABBA |
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Ding-A-Dong
(Dinge Dong) - Teach-In |
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1976 The Hague, Netherlands,
Winner : United Kingdom,
The song became the best-selling Eurovision song. The song went to No. 1 in 34 countries.
The group had a comeback in the 80s and having changed their image to a
more rock-like style.
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1978 London, United Kingdom,
 Winner
: Israel, The happy disco song that used a kind of children’s
language was about life and world peace. Israel's first Eurovision
win became a hit across continental Europe, but not in the UK where
it couldn’t break into the Top 20.
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Save Your
Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man |
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A-Ba-Ni-Bi
- Izhar Cohen and The Alphabeta |
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1979 Jerusalem, Israel,
Winner : Israel, A Hometown win for Milk and Honey. They had
performed with various female singers before Gali Atari joined them
as front person for this Contest.
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1980 The Hague, Netherlands,
Winner : Ireland, Born in Frankston, Melbourne, Australia, living in
Ireland, A fresh-faced Johnny Logan won the Eurovision Song
Contest with the song ‘What’s Another Year’ which shot to No. 1 in
many countries.
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Hallelujah -
Gali Atari & Milk And Honey |
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What's
Another Year - Johnny Logan |
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1981 Dublin, Ireland,
Winner : United Kingdom, Of This UK Group, Cheryl, Jay, Bobby and
Mike went on to top the UK charts and also had no.1's with 'My
Camera Never Lies' & 'Land of Make Believe'.
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1987 Brussels, Belgium,
Winner : Ireland, Logan
who started singing at the age of nine won this Eurovision Song Contest for the
second time in the decade. No-one else had ever won it twice. This
very personal song became a No 1 hit around the world.
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Making
Your Mind Up -
Bucks Fizz |
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Hold
Me Now - Johnny Logan |
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1988
Dublin, Ireland.
Winner : Switzerland, Céline Dion is at this stage an unkown, the youngest
of 14 children of a highly musical family. From the age of 5, Céline sang with her siblings live on stage.
The whole family
entertained for local visitors in a small club.
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1989
Lausanne, Switzerland,
 Winner : Yugoslavia,
Riva gave Yugoslavia their first Eurovision victory. The group
members all came from Zabar in Croatia but lived and worked in
Switzerland at the time of the Song Contest. Their fame was
short-lived. Not long after winning
Eurovision, the band split up.
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Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi -
Celine Dion |
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Rock
Me -
Riva |
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