Eurovision Song Contest 1997

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Eurovision Song Contest 1997
Eurovision Song Contest Logo 1997.svg
Dates
Final3 May 1997
Host
VenuePoint Theatre,
Dublin, Ireland
Presenter(s)
  • Carrie Crowley
  • Ronan Keating
Musical directorFrank McNamara
Directed byIan McGarry
Executive supervisorMarie-Claire Vionnet
Executive producerNoel Curran
Host broadcasterRaidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Opening actGood luck messages from former Eurovision stars and winners.
Interval act"Let The Message Run Free" performed by Boyzone
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/dublin-1997 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries25
Debuting countriesNone
Returning countries
Non-returning countries
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Winning song
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1997, was the 42nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Dublin, Ireland, following the country's victory at the 1996 contest with the song "The Voice" by Eimear Quinn. It was the seventh time that Ireland had hosted the contest, having previously done so in 1971, 1981, 1988, 1993, 1994 and 1995. It was the fourth time in five years, that Ireland hosted the contest – and a record sixth time that it was staged in Dublin. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the contest was held at the Point Theatre, with the final on 3 May 1997. The live show was presented by Carrie Crowley and Ronan Keating.[1]

Twenty-five countries participated in the contest, equalling the record of the 1993 and 1994 editions. Italy returned after their three-year absence.[2] Denmark, Germany, Hungary, and Russia, returned after their last participation in 1995, despite all of them taking part in the non-televised 1996 pre-qualifying round in which they failed to qualify and therefore were absent.[3] Belgium, Finland, and Slovakia were relegated due to having the lowest average scores over the previous four editions.[1]

The winner was the United Kingdom with the song "Love Shine a Light", performed by Katrina and the Waves and written by band member Kimberley Rew. This was the United Kingdom's fifth victory in the contest, following their wins in 1967, 1969, 1976 and 1981. Ireland, Turkey, Italy and Cyprus rounded out the top five. Turkey's third place finish was their best result in the contest at this point, finishing in the top five for the very first time.

This year, televoting was tested in five countries: Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The results of the televoting countries were, in some cases, different from those that used a jury. Iceland received 16 of its 18 points from these five countries. The use of televoting would be further implemented the following year, and be the primary method of voting in the contest for the next decade.[1]

Location[]

The Point Theatre, Dublin – host venue of the 1997 contest.

Having to host so many contests (sometimes in succession) put great financial pressure on host broadcaster RTÉ. There were early rumours stating that the Irish broadcaster was to team up with the BBC in Northern Ireland (BBC had previously offered to do this for the 1995 contest), however RTÉ eventually decided to host the event alone.[4]

Ireland hosted the contest for the fourth time in five years after winning the 1996 contest in Oslo. Dublin was chosen to be the host city, making it the sixth time that the Eurovision Song Contest was staged in the Irish capital. The venue for the contest was the Point Theatre located on the North Wall Quay of the River Liffey, amongst the Dublin Docklands. The theatre previously hosted the 1994 and 1995 contests. The Point Theatre is the only venue to have hosted the final three times.[1]

Format[]

After the controversy over the 1996 pre-qualifying round, the European Broadcasting Union introduced a new system for 1997: countries with the lowest average scores over the previous four years would be excluded from the 1997 contest, and those with the lowest averages over the previous five years would be excluded from future contests (save that every country so excluded for one year would automatically be allowed to participate the following year), with so many countries being omitted as would reduce the number of participants each year to 25.[1] The running order was determined by a draw on 28 November 1996.[5]

Israel declined to participate, as the Contest was held on its Holocaust Remembrance Day, granting a reprieve to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which would otherwise have been excluded owing to its low point average over the previous four years.[1] RTÉ once again produced a highly spectacular show, with a stage that had a smaller performance space for the artists than in previous years. This was the third Eurovision set to be designed by Paula Farrell, who had previously been involved with the 1988 and 1994 contests.[1]

There was a wide array of different styles this year. Denmark brought a rap song, Croatia came with their version of the Spice Girls and Sweden brought a mid-1980s style boy band. The music was in general more modern than before, and for the first time in six years, an up-tempo song won (the last time this happened was in Rome 1991, with Carola's song, Fångad av en stormvind).[1]

This year, televoting was tested in five countries: Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The results of the televoting countries were, in some cases, different from those that used a jury. Iceland received 16 of its 18 points from these five countries.[1]

Also, for the first time in Eurovision history, there was a country where not one, but two spokespeople gave votes – France. Television reporter and 1977 Eurovision winner Marie Myriam each took turns at giving results from that country. Long-time Irish conductor Noel Kelehan was not the host conductor this year due to illness, the duty being fulfilled by Frank McNamara.

Returning artists[]

Artist Country Previous Year(s)
Alma Čardžić  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1994
Maarja-Liis Ilus  Estonia 1996 (along with Ivo Linna)
Şebnem Paker (along with Grup Ethnic)  Turkey 1996

Conductors[]

Most performances had a conductor who maestro the orchestra. This was the year where full playback is now allowed in the contest. The result is 4 countries did not use the orchestra.

Greetings[]

Some of the postcards were preceded by greetings from past Eurovision stars. These stars are (in order of appearance):

Results[]

Draw Country Artist Song Language[6][7] Place[8] Points
01  Cyprus Hara & Andreas Konstantinou "Mana mou" (Μάνα μου) Greek 5 98
02  Turkey Şebnem Paker & Grup Ethnic "Dinle" Turkish 3 121
03  Norway Tor Endresen "San Francisco" Norwegian[a] 24 0
04  Austria Bettina Soriat "One Step" German[a] 21 12
05  Ireland Marc Roberts "Mysterious Woman" English 2 157
06  Slovenia Tanja Ribič "Zbudi se" Slovene 10 60
07   Switzerland "Dentro di me" Italian 22 5
08  Netherlands Mrs. Einstein "Niemand heeft nog tijd" Dutch 22 5
09  Italy Jalisse "Fiumi di parole" Italian 4 114
10  Spain Marcos Llunas "Sin rencor" Spanish 6 96
11  Germany Bianca Shomburg "Zeit" German 18 22
12  Poland Anna Maria Jopek "Ale jestem" Polish 11 54
13  Estonia Maarja-Liis Ilus "Keelatud maa" Estonian 8 82
14  Bosnia and Herzegovina Alma Čardžić "Goodbye" Bosnian 18 22
15  Portugal "Antes do adeus" Portuguese 24 0
16  Sweden Blond "Bara hon älskar mig" Swedish 14 36
17  Greece Marianna Zorba "Horepse" (Χόρεψε) Greek 12 39
18  Malta Debbie Scerri "Let Me Fly" English 9 66
19  Hungary V.I.P. "Miért kell, hogy elmenj?" Hungarian 12 39
20  Russia Alla Pugacheva "Primadonna" (Примадонна) Russian 15 33
21  Denmark Kølig Kaj "Stemmen i mit liv" Danish 16 25
22  France Fanny "Sentiments songes" French 7 95
23  Croatia E.N.I. "Probudi me" Croatian 17 24
24  United Kingdom Katrina and the Waves "Love Shine a Light" English 1 227
25  Iceland Paul Oscar "Minn hinsti dans" Icelandic 20 18
1.^ ^ Contained some lyrics in English.

Scoreboard[]

Each country had a jury that awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs, or a televote, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Iceland got most of its 18 points from the 5 countries that used televoting. Ireland was ostensibly the best scoring country across the televoting countries, except they were able to score points from all 5 televoting countries. The United Kingdom was only eligible to receive points from 4 of them, since they couldn't vote for themselves. In fact, the UK received 12 points from all the other televoting countries except Germany, from whom they received 10 points: in other words, the UK earned 46 of 48 (95.83%) possible televote points that year; Ireland earned 47 of 60 (78.33%) possible televote points—including their only 12 from the UK.[9]

During the voting the United Kingdom received at least five points from every voting country, bar Malta who only gave the United Kingdom one point.

Voting results[9]
Voting procedure used:
  100% Jury vote
  100% Televoting
Total score
Cyprus
Turkey
Norway
Austria
Ireland
Slovenia
Switzerland
Netherlands
Italy
Spain
Germany
Poland
Estonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Portugal
Sweden
Greece
Malta
Hungary
Russia
Denmark
France
Croatia
United Kingdom
Iceland
Contestants
 Cyprus 98 2 3 4 4 10 4 10 5 1 3 12 7 1 7 4 4 5 12
Turkey 121 7 2 6 2 7 12 12 6 12 5 6 7 10 6 4 6 4 7
Norway 0
Austria 12 3 1 5 3
Ireland 157 8 6 3 10 1 7 4 10 6 8 7 8 8 10 10 8 5 10 10 6 12
Slovenia 60 2 10 2 4 7 4 3 5 10 7 3 3
Switzerland 5 2 3
Netherlands 5 1 4
Italy 114 6 5 1 1 10 10 7 8 4 8 6 12 3 5 3 7 4 10 3 1
Spain 96 10 4 6 5 8 6 3 2 4 8 6 12 10 8 2 2
Germany 22 3 5 5 3 1 5
Poland 54 4 8 7 1 1 2 6 3 4 2 1 7 5 3
Estonia 82 1 6 8 3 12 4 7 6 1 1 1 4 8 8 10 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina 22 8 4 2 3 4 1
Portugal 0
Sweden 36 8 5 6 6 7 4
Greece 39 12 5 7 6 2 7
Malta 66 5 12 10 7 6 1 5 8 3 1 8
Hungary 39 3 4 5 5 2 5 2 8 5
Russia 33 1 5 12 8 7
Denmark 25 7 1 7 2 2 6
France 95 3 2 12 10 2 3 5 12 12 3 6 2 4 2 6 1 10
Croatia 24 4 1 3 2 5 8 1
United Kingdom 227 7 7 6 12 12 8 12 12 8 5 10 10 10 10 7 12 10 1 12 12 12 12 12 8
Iceland 18 2 2 8 6

12 points[]

Below is a summary of all 12-point in the final:[9]

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
10  United Kingdom  Austria,  Croatia,  Denmark,  France,  Hungary,  Ireland,  Netherlands,  Russia,  Sweden,   Switzerland
3  France  Estonia,  Norway,  Poland
 Turkey  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Germany,  Spain
2  Cyprus  Greece,  Iceland
1  Estonia  Italy
 Greece  Cyprus
 Ireland  United Kingdom
 Italy  Portugal
 Malta  Turkey
 Russia  Slovenia
 Spain  Malta

Qualification for the 1998 contest[]

In addition to the United Kingdom, the host country of the 1998 contest, the 18 countries with the highest average scores between 1993 and 1997 were allowed to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 alongside new and returning countries.[10][11]

Table key

  Automatic qualifier
  Qualifier
  Replacement qualifier
  Withdrew
Rank Country Average Yearly Scores
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
1  Ireland 155.20 187 226 44 162 157
2  United Kingdom 121.40 164 63 76 77 227
3  Norway 91.60 120 76 148 114 0
4  France 80.40 121 74 94 18 95
5  Italy[b] 79.50 45 114
6  Malta 75.20 69 97 76 68 66
7  Sweden 74.60 89 48 100 100 36
8  Poland 66.50 166 15 31 54
9  Cyprus 63.40 17 51 79 72 98
10  Spain 61.40 58 17 119 17 96
11  Estonia 59.33 2 94 82
12  Hungary 54.67 122 3 39
13  Croatia 54.20 31 27 91 98 24
14  Turkey 52.25 10 21 57 121
15  Greece 50.20 64 44 68 36 39
16   Switzerland 47.50 148 15 22 5
17  Portugal 46.00 60 73 5 92 0
18  Netherlands 44.75 92 4 78 5
19[c]  Slovenia 42.25 9 84 16 60
20[c]  Germany[b] 42.25 18 128 1 22
21  Denmark 42.00 9 92 25
22  Russia 40.00 70 17 33
23  Austria 39.60 32 19 67 68 12
24  Iceland 38.20 42 49 31 51 18
25  Bosnia and Herzegovina 23.00 27 39 14 13 22

Winners[]

Katrina and the Waves, (with lead vocalist Katrina Leskanich) representing the United Kingdom, were the winners of the contest with the song "Love Shine a Light", written by that band's lead guitarist Kimberley Rew, and Marc Roberts from Ireland came second with "Mysterious Woman". Despite being the runner-up, it remarkably received only one 12-point score, which came from the United Kingdom. The UK spokesman Colin Berry remarked: "You're going to like this one: Ireland, twelve points!" causing Terry Wogan to reply: "Well, tit for tat!" The winning song scored an unprecedented 227 points; it received points from all participating countries, including five sets of 10 points and a record-breaking ten sets of the maximum 12 points.

"Love Shine a Light" is regarded as one of the most successful Eurovision winners,[d] and was the closing song in the medleys that opened the 50th anniversary show Congratulations in Copenhagen in 2005, and the ESC 2006 semi-final in Athens. With this victory, the United Kingdom has five Eurovision wins and it is to date the country's last win in the Contest. After the 2020 contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Broadcasting Union aired a replacement show titled Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light, part of which featured the 41 scheduled acts performing "Love Shine a Light", alongside footage of European landmarks being lit up in tribute to the contest.

Barbara Dex Award[]

For the first time, the Barbara Dex Award was organised as a humorous fan award given to the worst dressed artist each year. Named after Belgium's representative who came last in the 1993 contest, wearing her self-designed dress, the award was presented by the fansite House of Eurovision until the 2016 contest, when the Belgian Eurovision fansite songfestival.be took the reins. Debbie Scerri of Malta is the inaugural winner of the award.

International broadcasts and voting[]

Voting and spokespersons[]

The spokespersons announced the score from their respective country's national jury (or, in some cases, televote) in running order.

  1.  Cyprus – Marios Skordis[12]
  2.  Turkey –
  3.  Norway – Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft
  4.  Austria – Adriana Zartl
  5.  Ireland – Eileen Dunne
  6.  Slovenia –
  7.   Switzerland – Sandy Altermatt
  8.  Netherlands – Corry Brokken (Dutch representative in 1956, 1958; winner of the 1957 contest, and presenter of the 1976 contest)
  9.  Italy – Peppi Franzelin
  10.  Spain – Belén Fernández de Henestrosa
  11.  Germany – Christina Mänz
  12.  Poland – Jan Chojnacki
  13.  Estonia – Helene Tedre[13]
  14.  Bosnia and Herzegovina – Segmedina Srna
  15.  Portugal – Cristina Rocha[14]
  16.  Sweden – Gösta Hanson[15]
  17.  Greece – Niki Venega[16]
  18.  Malta – Anna Bonanno
  19.  Hungary – Györgyi Albert
  20.  Russia – Arina Sharapova
  21.  Denmark – Bent Henius
  22.  France – Frédéric Ferrer & Marie Myriam (Winner of the 1977 contest)[17]
  23.  Croatia – Davor Meštrović[18]
  24.  United Kingdom – Colin Berry
  25.  Iceland – Svanhildur Konráðsdóttir

Commentators[]

Most countries sent commentators to Dublin or commented from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, the provision of voting information.

Participating countries[]

Non-participating countries[]

National jury members[]

  •  Turkey – Merter Beton
  •  Netherlands – Maxine (Dutch entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 (as part of Maxine & Franklin Brown)), Maggie MacNeal (Dutch entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 (as part of Mouth & MacNeal) and 1980), , ,
  •  Spain – Fernando González (racing driver), María Esteve (actress), Manuel del Rosario (student), (journalist at RNE), Antonio Carbonell (singer, Spanish entrant at Eurovision Song Contest 1996), (student), Fernando Arias (riding instructor), (singer), (actress), (composer), Eva Santamaría (singer, Spanish entrant at Eurovision Song Contest 1993), Pepe Rubio (fashion designer), (doctor), (comedian), (housewife), (radio host)[38]
  •  Poland – , , Patrycja Markowska, Robert Janson, , Wojciech Karolak, , , , , Anita Lipnicka, , , , Hanna Banaszak,
  •  Estonia – Koit Toome (future Estonian entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 and 2017), , Marju Länik, Heli Lääts, Väino Puura, , Elina Reinold, , Kärt Hellerma, , , Rauno Pehka, , Linnar Priimägi
  •  Portugal –
  •  Greece – , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Contains some lyrics in English
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Germany was permitted entry into the 1998 contest following Italy's withdrawal.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Despite having the same average score, Slovenia ranked higher than Germany by virtue of achieving a higher score in the most recent contest.[10]
  4. ^ As noted on a TOTP2 Eurovision special, it ranks third in the rankings of points achieved as a percentage of maximum available with 227 out of 288 or 78.81%, behind Nicole's "Ein bißchen Frieden" in 1982 (161 out of 204 or 78.92%) and Brotherhood of Man's "Save Your Kisses for Me" in 1976 (164 out of 204 or 80.39%). For comparison, Elena Paparizou's 2005 win took 230 points out of a possible 456, or only 50.04%.
  5. ^ After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia last participated in 1992. RTS2 broadcast the show, although Yugoslavia did not participate.

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