Eurovision Song Contest 1985

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Eurovision Song Contest 1985
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Dates
Final4 May 1985
Host
VenueScandinavium
Gothenburg, Sweden
Presenter(s)Lill Lindfors
Musical directorCurt-Eric Holmquist
Directed bySteen Priwin
Executive supervisorFrank Naef
Executive producerSteen Priwin
Host broadcasterSveriges Television (SVT)
Opening act"My Joy is Building Bricks of Music" performed by Lill Lindfors
Interval actGuitars Unlimited with Swedish Evergreens
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/gothenburg-1985 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries19
Debuting countriesNone
Returning countries
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 Norway
"La det swinge"
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was the 30th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held on 4 May 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The presenter was entertainer Lill Lindfors, whose jokey dress rip after the interval act (seemingly revealing her knickers before unfolding another dress) was said to have not amused the wife of EBU scrutineer Frank Naef. Norwegian duo Bobbysocks! were the winners with the song "La det swinge".

Bobbysocks!' win for Norway was the country's first. Host Lill Lindfors congratulated the duo, Hanne Krogh and Elisabeth Andreasson, following their victory by saying, "I must say I am honestly very happy that this happened because Norway has been last on so many times that you really deserve it!" Krogh replied, "You're happy? What do you think we are?!" After an energetic reprise, the two women embraced to a standing ovation from the audience. During this reprise, the last verse of the winning entry was sung in English.

During the voting, it was not immediately evident that Norway would win the Contest. Germany took a commanding lead in the first half, with Norway fifth place behind Germany, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom around the end of the first half of voting. Finally, with five juries left, Germany, Sweden and Norway were tightly wrapped around the pole positions with 87, 86, and 85 points respectively. At that point, Sweden briefly took the lead away from Germany (who received no points from Switzerland). Sweden was the fourth-to-last jury, conceding their brief lead by awarding Germany eight points and Norway the maximum twelve. With only three countries left to vote, Norway kept the lead, in one of the shortest winning stretches during voting in the contest's history.

Location[]

Scandinavium, Gothenburg – host venue of the 1985 contest.

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Construction of the arena began in 1969 after decades of setbacks, and was inaugurated on 18 May 1971. Scandinavium is the home arena for Frölunda HC of Swedish Hockey League, and venue for the annual Göteborg Horse Show.

Contest overview[]

The Netherlands and Yugoslavia did not participate in this Contest, due to the national Remembrance of the Dead in the Netherlands, and the anniversary of the death of Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia. Despite this Yugoslavia still held their annual preselection contest, which was won by "" ("Penance") (music by and lyrics by ), a duet sung by Zorica Kondža and . However, Yugoslavia had already withdrawn before the song won, and therefore it was never set to compete in Eurovision.

1985 was also the year when no less than thirteen previous Eurovision artists made a comeback. This also applied to the winners, Bobbysocks! who had attended once before as soloists: Hanne Krogh performed for Norway in 1971, while Elisabeth Andreasson for Sweden (where she is originally from) in 1982 in a duet, Chips, with Kikki Danielsson. Kikki herself also returned this year for host country Sweden, and was thus competing against Elisabeth Andreasson and Bobbysocks!.

Lys Assia, the winner of the first ever Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, was the guest of honour of this edition. She was introduced by the presenter Lill Lindfors. The camera zoomed close to Lys, who rose to greet the audience, while the orchestra played the song "Refrain", her winning song.

The video postcards broadcast in between each song to introduce the competing nations were the first in the contest history to feature only the song writers and composers, none of the performing artists (unless they had composed their own song). All the song writers were filmed in various locations in and around Gothenburg during the week of rehearsals. Once the video concluded, hostess Lill Lindfors introduced the song, the artist and the conductor from a seat on the stage, reading from cards represented by the flag of each nation.[1]

Conductors[]

This was the only year to feature a conductor for multiple entries that wasn't the host conductor: Greek conductor Haris Andreadis led the orchestra for both the Cypriot and Greek entries.

Returning artists[]

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Gary Lux  Austria 1983 (member of Westend), 1984 (backing vocal of Anita)
Rhonda Heath (backing singer) 1977 (member of Silver Convention for  Germany)
Lia Vissi  Cyprus 1979 (backing vocal of Elpida), 1980 (backing vocal of Anna Vissi and The Epikouri), both times for  Greece
Hot Eyes  Denmark 1984
Izhar Cohen  Israel 1978 (along with the Alphabeta)
Al Bano & Romina Power  Italy 1976
Ireen Sheer  Luxembourg 1974, 1978 (for  Germany)
Hanne Krogh (part of Bobbysocks!)  Norway 1971
Elisabeth Andreasson (part of Bobbysocks!) 1982 (for  Sweden, as part of Chips)
Kikki Danielsson  Sweden 1982 (as part of Chips)
 [de]   Switzerland 1977 (part of Pepe Lienhard Band)
Mariella Farré 1983

Results[]

Draw Country Artist Song Language[2][3] Place[4] Points
01  Ireland Maria Christian "Wait Until the Weekend Comes" English 6 91
02  Finland Sonja Lumme "Eläköön elämä" Finnish 9 58
03  Cyprus Lia Vissi "To katalava arga" (Το κατάλαβα αργά) Greek 16 15
04  Denmark Hot Eyes "Sku' du spørg' fra no'en?" Danish 11 41
05  Spain Paloma San Basilio "La fiesta terminó" Spanish 14 36
06  France Roger Bens "Femme dans ses rêves aussi" French 10 56
07  Turkey MFÖ "Didai didai dai" Turkish 14 36
08  Belgium Linda Lepomme "Laat me nu gaan" Dutch 19 7
09  Portugal Adelaide "Penso em ti, eu sei" Portuguese 18 9
10  Germany Wind "Für alle" German 2 105
11  Israel Izhar Cohen "Olé, Olé" (עולה, עולה) Hebrew 5 93
12  Italy Al Bano & Romina Power "Magic Oh Magic" Italian 7 78
13  Norway Bobbysocks! "La det swinge" Norwegian 1 123
14  United Kingdom Vikki "Love Is…" English 4 100
15   Switzerland Mariella Farré & "Piano, piano" German 12 39
16  Sweden Kikki Danielsson "Bra vibrationer" Swedish 3 103
17  Austria Gary Lux "Kinder dieser Welt" German 8 60
18  Luxembourg , Franck Olivier, Diane Solomon,
Ireen Sheer, Chris & Malcolm Roberts 		"Children, Kinder, Enfants" French 13 37
19  Greece Takis Biniaris "Miazoume" (Μοιάζουμε) Greek 16 15

Voting[]

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs.

The voting itself was exciting, the German favourites looked to be cruising to an early victory. However both Sweden and Norway did their best to keep up and by the time the UK jury delivered their votes (only 1 point for Germany and 12 for Norway), Germany had seen its lead smashed.

Lill Lindfors had a wardrobe malfunction (though technically this is a misnomer, as the stunt was deliberate) as she proceeded to the stage for the voting procedure. As she walked on stage, the skirt of her dress came away, leaving her in just her underwear and the top half of her dress. After a few seconds of pretending to be shocked, Lindfors unfastened the flaps of her dress across her shoulders, to reveal a full-length white gown, to much raucous audience applause.[5] Lill then took her seat to start calling in the votes, and nonchalantly said, "I just wanted to wake you up a little."

Scoreboard[]

Voting results[6]
Total score
Ireland
Finland
Cyprus
Denmark
Spain
France
Turkey
Belgium
Portugal
Germany
Israel
Italy
Norway
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Sweden
Austria
Luxembourg
Greece
Contestants
 Ireland 91 1 7 3 4 3 5 8 8 4 8 12 3 3 5 7 10
Finland 58 6 6 6 3 1 7 7 2 10 10
Cyprus 15 1 3 3 8
Denmark 41 3 10 3 1 6 2 6 5 5
Spain 36 2 8 1 12 2 4 1 6
France 56 5 4 1 3 3 10 2 4 6 3 3 12
Turkey 36 7 2 3 1 2 1 8 12
Belgium 7 7
Portugal 9 2 7
Germany 105 4 10 12 10 10 8 10 7 7 8 1 8 10
Israel 93 8 5 4 8 12 5 7 5 10 5 7 2 7 6 2
Italy 78 6 10 1 12 5 8 2 12 4 6 12
Norway 123 12 4 12 1 2 12 12 12 6 12 6 12 12 7 1
United Kingdom 100 5 7 5 5 6 10 6 6 5 2 8 7 10 4 2 8 4
Switzerland 39 3 2 6 6 5 4 1 5 1 1 2 3
Sweden 103 10 12 8 2 7 4 7 8 6 4 12 6 8 4 5
Austria 60 3 7 1 4 10 10 2 10 1 3 4 5
Luxembourg 37 2 4 10 3 5 1 4 8
Greece 15 8 7

12 points[]

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

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
8  Norway  Austria,  Belgium,  Denmark,  Germany,  Ireland,  Israel,  Sweden,  United Kingdom
3  Italy  Luxembourg,  Portugal,  Spain
2  Sweden  Finland,  Norway
1  France  Greece
 Germany  Cyprus
 Ireland  Italy
 Israel  France
 Spain  Turkey
 Turkey   Switzerland

Commentators[]

Television[]

Participating countries[]

  •  Ireland – Linda Martin (RTÉ 1)
  •  Finland – Heikki Harma & Kari Lumikero (YLE TV1)[7]
  •  Cyprus – Themis Themistokleous (RIK)[8]
  •  Denmark – Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV)[9]
  •  Spain – (TVE2)[10]
  •  France – Patrice Laffont (FR3)[11]
  •  Turkey – Başak Doğru (TRT)
  •  Belgium – Dutch: Luc Appermont (BRT TV1),[12] French: Jacques Mercier (RTBF1)[11]
  •  Portugal – Eládio Clímaco (RTP1)[13]
  •  Germany – (Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen)[14]
  •  Israel – No commentator
  •  Italy – Rosanna Vaudetti (Raidue)
  •  Norway – Veslemøy Kjendsli (NRK)[15]
  •  United Kingdom – Terry Wogan (BBC)[16]
  •   Switzerland – German: Bernard Thurnheer (DRS), French: Serge Moisson (SSR), Italian: Ezio Guidi (TSI)
  •  Sweden – Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1)[17]
  •  Austria – (FS1)[18]
  •  Luxembourg – (RTL Télévision),[11] Oliver Spiecker (RTL plus)
  •  Greece – Mako Georgiadou (ERT)[19]

Non-participating countries[]

Radio[]

Some participating countries did not provide radio broadcasts for the event; the ones who did are listed below.

  •  Ireland – Larry Gogan (RTÉ Radio 1)
  •  Finland – TBC (YLE Rinnakkaisohjelma)
  •  Cyprus – Neophytos Taliotis (CyBC Radio 2)
  •  Denmark – Poul Birch Eriksen (DR P3)
  •  France – Julien Lepers (France Inter)
  •  Turkey – Bülent Osma (TRT Radyo 3)
  •  Belgium – Dutch: Paul De Meulder (BRT Radio 2), French: Jacques Olivier (RTBF La Première)
  •  Germany – Roger Horné (Deutschlandfunk/hr3)
  •  Israel – Daniel Pe'er (Reshet Gimel)
  •  Italy – Franco Fabbri (Rai Radio 1)
  •  Norway – Jahn Teigen and Erik Heyerdahl (NRK P1)
  •  United Kingdom – Richard Nankivell (British Forces Radio)[22]
  •  Sweden – Jan Ellerås and Rune Hallberg (SR P3)[17]
  •  Austria – Walter Richard Langer (Hitradio Ö3)
  •  Luxembourg – André Torrent (RTL Radio)
  •  Greece – Dimitris Konstantaras (Proto Programma)

Spokespersons[]

National jury members[]

  •  Spain – María Asquerino (actress), (industrialist), (teacher), (student), (actress), (journalist), (lecturer), Francisco Umbral (writer), Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada (fashion designer), (jockey), (tourism management technician)
  •  United Kingdom – John Inman, David Hutchison

Notes[]

  • A ^ However the Eurovision Song Contest was not broadcast on Dutch television due to the Remembrance of the Dead, it was broadcast the next morning via satellite project Olympus.

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