Eurovision Song Contest 1984

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Eurovision Song Contest 1984
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Dates
Final5 May 1984
Host
VenueGrand Theatre
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Presenter(s)Désirée Nosbusch
Musical directorPierre Cao
Directed byRené Steichen
Executive supervisorFrank Naef
Executive producerRay van Cant
Host broadcasterRTL Télévision (RTL)
Opening actIn an introductory video, Pierre Cao and the RTL orchestra performed instrumental versions of all the past Eurovision winners from Luxembourg and L'amour est bleu, one of Luxembourg's most popular entries.
Interval actPrague Theatre of Illuminated Drawings
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1984 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries19
Debuting countriesNone
Returning countries Ireland
Non-returning countries
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Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul pointsNone
Winning song Sweden
"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley"
1983 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1985

The Eurovision Song Contest 1984, the 29th event of its kind, was held on 5 May 1984 in Luxembourg. The presenter, Désirée Nosbusch, only 19 years old at the time, hosted the show in a lax manner, which was quite unusual for the show at the time. She manifested her fluency in four languages by switching between a strong transatlantic 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 Nordic country's second win, and the first one in Swedish, as ABBA performed Waterloo in English when they won in 1974. Richard and Louis Herrey became the first teenage males to win Eurovision and remain the youngest ever male winners, being 19 years and 260 days and 18 years and 184 days of age respectively.[1]

Israel did not enter due to it conflicting with the country's Yom HaZikaron holiday. Iceland was going to participate but withdrew due to lack of financial support.[2] 1984 is also 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 hooligans having rioted in Luxembourg in November 1983 after being knocked out of the UEFA European Football Championship.

Location[]

Grand Théâtre, Luxembourg City - host venue of the 1984 contest.

Luxembourg City is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg. The city contains the historic Luxembourg Castle, established by the Franks in the Early Middle Ages, around which a settlement developed.

The Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, inaugurated in 1964 as the Théâtre Municipal de la Ville de Luxembourg, became the venue for the 1984 contest. It is the city's major venue for drama, opera and ballet.[3][4] It also hosted the 1973 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Format[]

Roland de Groot, who had also designed the set for the 1970, 1976 and 1980 contests, returned with a stage concept similar to that of 1976, using translucent panels of varying shapes suspended above the stage and operated on a pully system of ropes, with color changes for each panel to create unique backdrops for each entry.[5] Unusually, the live orchestra was not seen on camera, being positioned slightly under the stage itself in a traditional orchestra pit, out of sight of the cameras.

The presentation by Désirée Nosbusch, a Luxembourg native working and living in the USA, made her at 19 years-of-age, the youngest host of the Grand Prix to date. Her style was unusual in that rather than making announcements in multiple languages, Nosbusch instead switched between French, English, Luxemburgish and German mid-sentence, not finishing any of her announcements in a single language.

The postcards in between each song were of a similar concept to those first devised for the 1979 competition and featured mime artists virtually visiting each of the participant nations. The actors, known collectively as "The Tourists" were superimposed into animated representations of the tourist attractions of each country, with the combined use of animated and real props, all created using the Chroma-Key process.[6]

Conductors[]

Returning artists[]

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Mary Roos  Germany 1972
Kit Rolfe (part of Belle and the Devotions)  United Kingdom 1983 (backing singer)
Izolda Barudžija (part of Vlado & Isolda)  Yugoslavia 1982 (part of Aska), 1983 (part of Danijel's back vocals)
Gary Lux (backing singer for Anita)  Austria 1983 (as member of Westend)

Results[]

Draw Country Artist Song Language[7][8] Place[9] Points
01  Sweden Herreys "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" Swedish 1 145
02  Luxembourg Sophie Carle "100% d'amour" French 10 39
03  France Annick Thoumazeau "Autant d'amoureux que d'étoiles" French 8 61
04  Spain Bravo "Lady, Lady" Spanish[a] 3 106
05  Norway Dollie de Luxe "Lenge leve livet" Norwegian 17 29
06  United Kingdom Belle and the Devotions "Love Games" English 7 63
07  Cyprus Andy Paul "Anna Maria Lena" (Άννα Μαρία Λένα) Greek 15 31
08  Belgium Jacques Zegers "Avanti la vie" French[b] 5 70
09  Ireland Linda Martin "Terminal 3" English 2 137
10  Denmark Hot Eyes "Det' lige det" Danish 4 101
11  Netherlands Maribelle "Ik hou van jou" Dutch 13 34
12  Yugoslavia Vlado & Isolda "Ciao, amore" Serbo-Croatian[b] 18 26
13  Austria Anita "Einfach weg" German 19 5
14  Germany Mary Roos "Aufrecht geh'n" German 13 34
15  Turkey Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra "Halay" Turkish 12 37
16  Finland Kirka "Hengaillaan" Finnish 9 46
17   Switzerland "Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?" German 16 30
18  Italy Alice & Franco Battiato "I treni di Tozeur" Italian[c] 5 70
19  Portugal Maria Guinot "Silêncio e tanta gente" Portuguese 11 38

Voting structure[]

Before 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 was considered 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, at 141 and 135 respectively. However, Yugoslavia was the only country who had not given any points to Ireland, and Portugal, the last jury, gave that western country only two points, crushing their chances. Portugal's voting also cost Denmark, 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 point making Denmark's total 101 points. Despite this, this was the 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 visible only to television viewers.

Scoreboard[]

Voting results[10]
Total score
Sweden
Luxembourg
France
Spain
Norway
United Kingdom
Cyprus
Belgium
Ireland
Denmark
Netherlands
Yugoslavia
Austria
Germany
Turkey
Finland
Switzerland
Italy
Portugal
Contestants
 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
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 points[]

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

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
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[]

Participating countries[]

  •  Sweden – Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1)[11]
  •  Luxembourg – Valérie Sarn and Jacques Navadic (RTL Télévision),[12] Karlchen and Helmut Thoma (RTL plus)
  •  France – Léon Zitrone (Antenne 2)[12]
  •  Spain – José-Miguel Ullán (TVE2)[13]
  •  Norway – Roald Øyen (NRK)[14]
  •  United Kingdom – Terry Wogan (BBC1),[15] Richard Nankivell (British Forces Radio)[16]
  •  Cyprus – Pavlos Pavlou (RIK)[17]
  •  Belgium – French: Jacques Mercier (RTBF1),[12] Dutch: Luc Appermont (BRT TV1)[18]
  •  Ireland – Gay Byrne (RTÉ1), Larry Gogan (RTÉ Radio 1)
  •  Denmark – Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV)[19]
  •  Netherlands – Ivo Niehe (Nederland 1)[20]
  •  Yugoslavia – Mladen Popović (TVB2), Oliver Mlakar (TVZ 1), Tomaž Terček (TVL1)
  •  Austria – Ernst Grissemann (FS2)[21]
  •  Germany – Ado Schlier (ARD Deutsches Fernsehen),[22] Roger Horné (Deutschlandfunk)
  •  Turkey – Başak Doğru (TRT)
  •  Finland – Heikki Seppälä (YLE TV1),[23] Jaakko Salonoja (YLE Rinnakkaisohjelma)
  •   Switzerland – German: Bernard Thurnheer (TV DRS), French: Serge Moisson (TSR), Italian: Ezio Guidi (TSI)
  •  Italy – Antonio De Robertis (Raidue and Rai Radio 1)
  •  Portugal – Fialho Gouveia (RTP1)[24]

Non-participating countries[]

  •  Australia - N/A (Channel 0/28, now SBS)
  •  Iceland – TBC (Sjónvarpið)
  •  Israel – No commentator (IBA, delayed)

Spokespersons[]

  •  Sweden – Agneta Bolme Börjefors[11]
  •  Luxembourg – Jacques Harvey
  •  France – Nicole André[25]
  •  Spain – Matilde Jarrín
  •  Norway – Egil Teige[26]
  •  United Kingdom – Colin Berry[27]
  •  Cyprus – Anna Partelidou[17]
  •  Belgium – Jacques Olivier
  •  Ireland – John Skehan
  •  Denmark –  [dk][28]
  •  Netherlands – Flip van der Schalie[29]
  •  Yugoslavia – Snežana Lipkovska-Hadžinaumova
  •  Austria – Tilia Herold[27]
  •  Germany – Ruth Kappelsberger
  •  Turkey – Fatih Orbay
  •  Finland – Solveig Herlin[30]
  •   Switzerland – Michel Stocker[31]
  •  Italy – Mariolina Cannuli
  •  Portugal – João Abel Fonseca

National jury members[]

  •  Spain – (lab employee and photography expert), Carmen González (translator), Rafael Rullán (basketball player), (actress), (former bullfighter and businessman), (actor and theatre businessman), (ballet and gymnastics teacher), (playwright), (public relations), (industrialist), (horsewoman)[32]

References[]

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  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Contains some words in Italian
  3. ^ Contains some words in German

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