Eurovision Song Contest 1992

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Eurovision Song Contest 1992
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Dates
Final9 May 1992
Host
VenueMalmö Isstadion
Malmö, Sweden
Presenter(s)Lydia Capolicchio
Harald Treutiger
Musical directorAnders Berglund
Directed byKåge Gimtell
Executive supervisorFrank Naef
Host broadcasterSveriges Television (SVT)
Opening actCarola performing "All the Reasons to Live"
Interval actA Century of Dance
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/malmo-1992 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries23
Debuting countriesNone
Returning countries Netherlands
Non-returning countriesNone
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Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul pointsNone
Winning song Ireland
"Why Me?"
1991 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1993

The Eurovision Song Contest 1992 was the 37th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 9 May 1992 in Malmö, Sweden. The presenters were Lydia Capolicchio and Harald Treutiger. Linda Martin, representing Ireland, was the winner of this Eurovision with the song Why Me?. The song was written by Johnny Logan, who had won the 1980 contest as singer and the 1987 contest as singer/songwriter. At 41 years and 22 days of age, Linda Martin became (and remains) the oldest woman ever to win Eurovision.[1]

Location[]

Malmö Isstadion, Malmö – host venue of the 1992 contest.

Malmö is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania. The metropolis is a gamma world city (as listed by the GaWC) and is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in Scandinavia, with a population of above 300,000.[2]

Malmö Isstadion, a 4,800-seat indoor sports arena, was chosen as the host venue for the contest. Opened in 1968, it is the former home arena of the Malmö Redhawks ice hockey team, and underwent major renovation in 2013 in time for the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Contest overview[]

The contest took place at Malmö Isstadion, where the stage set was in the shape of a Viking ship's bow with a dragon in the centre and stars on each side. The opening sequence included women dressed in the Swedish colours of yellow and blue, twirling ribbons. The filmic postcard tradition was continued with clips based on each country. Last year's winner, Carola, appeared on stage in a white dress with sheer sleeves, a rhinestone collar and cuffs and sang “All The Reasons To Live”.

The 1992 Eurovision was the biggest contest at that time, with 23 countries competing. Only Monaco and Morocco failed to compete out of all the countries which had entered the contest in the past.

This contest marked the last participation of Yugoslavia, although it was not the same country that had participated from 1961 to 1991, but actually, Serbia and Montenegro, formally known as the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia". That was the country's last entry until 2004, as it was banned from the contest, following the sanctions on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 757, following the Bosnian War and Croatian War of Independence.

After scoring second place consecutively (1988, 1989) and scoring some disappointing results (1990, 1991), the United Kingdom sent Michael Ball with a contemporary pop song "One Step Out Of Time", which was the hot favourite to win the contest. However, the Irish sent Linda Martin, who had the past experience of coming in 2nd place in the 1984 contest, but also paired up once again with Johnny Logan, who won the contest twice before. In the end, Ireland won the contest with a 16-point lead over the United Kingdom, starting the chain of Irish wins in the 1990s. Malta with "Little Child", performed by Mary Spiteri, also scored very well coming in 3rd place with 123 points. This was the first time that the three highest-placed songs had all been in English. Sweden, the host country, finished 2nd last.

Switzerland had to replace its original choice of entry, "Soleil, soleil" which was to have been performed by Géraldine Olivier. The song did not comply with some of the rules of the national selection contest and so, despite having won, it did not go to Malmö.

Conductors[]

Each performance had a conductor who led the orchestra. Musical Director Anders Berglund both conducted the entries for Sweden and Yugoslavia and played the accordion parts for the latter.

Participating countries[]

Returning artists[]

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Wind  Germany 1985, 1987
Sigga (part of Heart 2 Heart)  Iceland 1990 (part of Stjórnin)
Linda Martin  Ireland 1984
Mia Martini  Italy 1977
Evridiki Theokleous  Cyprus 1983 (backing singer for Stavros & Constantina), 1987 (Backing Vocals for Alexia)

Results[]

Draw Country Artist Song Language[3][4] Place[5] Points
01  Spain Serafín "Todo esto es la música" Spanish 14 37
02  Belgium Morgane "Nous, on veut des violons" French 20 11
03  Israel Dafna Dekel "Ze Rak Sport" (זה רק ספורט) Hebrew 6 85
04  Turkey Aylin Vatankoş "Yaz Bitti" Turkish 19 17
05  Greece Cleopatra "Olou tou kosmou i Elpida" (Όλου του κόσμου η Ελπίδα) Greek 5 94
06  France Kali "Monté la riviè" French, Antillean Creole 8 73
07  Sweden Christer Björkman "I morgon är en annan dag" Swedish 22 9
08  Portugal Dina "Amor d'água fresca" Portuguese 17 26
09  Cyprus Evridiki "Teriazoume" (Ταιριάζουμε) Greek 11 57
10  Malta Mary Spiteri "Little Child" English 3 123
11  Iceland Heart 2 Heart "Nei eða já" Icelandic 7 80
12  Finland Pave Maijanen "Yamma, yamma" Finnish 23 4
13   Switzerland "Mister Music Man" French 15 32
14  Luxembourg Marion Welter & Kontinent "Sou fräi" Luxembourgish 21 10
15  Austria Tony Wegas "Zusammen geh'n" German 10 63
16  United Kingdom Michael Ball "One Step Out of Time" English 2 139
17  Ireland Linda Martin "Why Me?" English 1 155
18  Denmark & "Alt det som ingen ser" Danish 12 47
19  Italy Mia Martini "Rapsodia" Italian 4 111
20 Yugoslavia "Ljubim te pesmama" (Љубим те песмама) Serbian 13 44
21  Norway Merethe Trøan "Visjoner" Norwegian 18 23
22  Germany Wind "Träume sind für alle da" German 16 27
23  Netherlands Humphrey Campbell "Wijs me de weg" Dutch 9 67

Voting structure[]

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

Scoreboard[]

Voting results[6]
Total score
Spain
Belgium
Israel
Turkey
Greece
France
Sweden
Portugal
Cyprus
Malta
Iceland
Finland
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Austria
United Kingdom
Ireland
Denmark
Italy
Yugoslavia
Norway
Germany
Netherlands
Contestants
 Spain 37 1 1 4 6 2 3 3 2 1 1 7 5 1
Belgium 11 3 4 3 1
Israel 85 10 2 8 4 7 4 7 4 8 1 7 2 12 2 4 3
Turkey 17 8 3 6
Greece 94 7 8 7 3 5 12 2 5 10 4 12 7 8 4
France 73 6 12 3 3 7 12 5 6 10 3 6
Sweden 9 1 4 4
Portugal 26 8 2 2 1 5 8
Cyprus 57 3 10 2 2 1 8 2 6 4 8 3 8
Malta 123 12 10 7 12 12 1 8 5 12 8 10 8 3 10 5
Iceland 80 8 4 4 6 6 6 3 5 7 12 5 5 1 6 2
Finland 4 1 3
Switzerland 32 5 12 4 1 10
Luxembourg 10 10
Austria 63 2 8 8 1 3 8 4 10 12 7
United Kingdom 139 5 12 2 10 10 5 6 6 4 6 8 7 12 7 12 8 12 7
Ireland 155 1 7 12 12 10 4 5 12 7 10 6 10 10 8 10 2 2 7 10 10
Denmark 47 4 6 7 1 6 6 3 3 6 5
Italy 111 5 3 12 8 8 10 5 10 12 7 6 12 1 12
Yugoslavia 44 10 6 1 5 2 3 5 4 2 4 2
Norway 23 3 2 1 1 4 5 6 1
Germany 27 6 10 6 2 3
Netherlands 67 7 2 5 7 5 4 7 3 1 5 2 8 4 7

12 points[]

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

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

Commentators and spokespersons[]

Spokespersons[]

Commentators[]

Television[]

Participating countries[]
Non-participating countries[]

Radio[]

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

National jury members[]

  •  Spain – (singer of the group Tennessee), Bárbara Rey (actress), (scriptwriter and musician), Teresa Rioné (athlete), (lawyer), Iván Rodríguez (student), (parapsychologist and clairvoyant), (singer of the group Toreros Muertos), (student), (journalist), Pilar Sánchez (businesswoman), (journalist at Diario 16), (actress), Santiago Palacios (gynaecologist), (economist), Karina (singer, Spanish entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971)[31]
  •  Greece – , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
  •  Portugal – , Olívia Rodrigues, Tozé Brito
  •  Finland – Vicky Rosti (singer, Finnish entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987)[32]
  •  Ireland – Keith Mills,
  •  Norway – Sigurd Køhn, Erik Wesseltoft, , , , , , , , , , , , Carl Størmer, Reidar Skår, [33]
  •  Netherlands – Bernadette (Dutch entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983), Karin Vlasblom (Dutch entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 as part of group Frizzle Sizzle), , ,

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