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-Good luck everyone. -Run telecine. -Yes, camera A is ready. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
Finland, can you hear me? | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
THEY SPEAK IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
We were watching the votes and the room was getting hotter and hotter and hotter and hotter. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
-'United Kingdom, seven votes.' -'Germany 12 points. Norway...' | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
'You surprise and astound me.' | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
-'These are the ABBA group.' -'Nana Mouskouri.' | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
-'Julio Iglesias.' -'Serge Gainsbourg' -'Dana.' | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
'There is going to be some celebrating tonight with the Irish party.' | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
'United Kingdom have done it again and I'll take a small bet that this might well go to number one.' | 0:00:37 | 0:00:42 | |
'What do you think of the standard of songs in recent years?' | 0:00:42 | 0:00:47 | |
Very, very low indeed. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
'We are unity and we are unstoppable.' | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
Your mum, dad, five of us, we would all sit, | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
we were glued to the television which in those days was this size. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:16 | |
Every year Eurovision was a must. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
'My mother forced me... No, she didn't force me,' | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
I really loved to watch Eurovision. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
'You'd be sitting on the carpet writing down your favourite ones.' | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
It was a huge event. It was event TV. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
'It was the very first time that Europe came together, as it were, | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
'on wings of song. The idea was' | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
to unify the Continent with song | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
and all it made manifestly clear was how far apart we were. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
My favourite one of all would be probably | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
Mouth & MacNeal, I See A Star. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
# I see a star... # | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
And it was the same year that ABBA won. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
# I feel like I win when I lose... # | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
The favourite Eurovision song of all has to be Waterloo. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
# Waterloo, I was defeated You won the war... # | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
Volare. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
# Volare... # | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
Beautiful song. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
Once there was a beautiful Italian song called Non Ho L'eta. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
# Non ho l'eta... # | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
Celine Dion. For Switzerland. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
# Ne partez pas sans moi... # | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
I mean, I love Celine Dion. Surprise(!) | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
'It's almost impossible to explain Eurovision to someone' | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
who doesn't know what it is or who had never seen before. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
Because you've got to know how it got to where it is today. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
The ITA transmitter at Norwood | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
near the Crystal Palace in south London | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. With typical French resource | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
they have made this tourist attraction serve as a TV aerial, too. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
'There had been a couple of dreadful wars' | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
and it was the very first attempt by Europe to bring itself together. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:32 | |
How does it work? Have a look at the Eurovision control room in Brussels. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
IN FRENCH | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
It's a magnificent foolish concept. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
That's fine, thank you. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
You might say the same about the European Union. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
You might say the same about the euro. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
'This your first sight of France by direct vision | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
on this lovely summer night.' | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
'And up shoot the glittering rockets right over the heads of the crowd.' | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
Just like sport, music easily travels, | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
so the EBU thought it would be a good idea to experiment with this, | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
ask in that case, composers to come | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
up with their best light music compositions and let them compete. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:37 | |
In 1956 when the first contest took place the UK actually missed | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
out on that one. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:52 | |
The BBC were organising the British Festival Of Popular Song. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
# Everybody falls in love with someone | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
# Why can't someone fall in love with me? # | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
-Are you there, Birmingham? -'Yes, we're here.' -How is it coming through? | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
-'Fine.' -What's the weather like up there? | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
-'Much better than it has been.' -A little bit rainy down here. Windy, too. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
'Song number three, four votes.' | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
IN GERMAN | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:05:33 | 0:05:38 | |
THEY SING IN DANISH | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
# All the golden dreams of yesterday... # | 0:05:57 | 0:06:03 | |
SHE SINGS IN DUTCH | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
HE SINGS IN ITALIAN | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
Italy were absolutely robbed in 1958. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
'Domenico was fairly unique at that time, for actually' | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
opening his arms out during the performance. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
Normally, Italian singers stood there with their arms by their side, | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
but given the song was about flying, it was quite an inspired idea. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:56 | |
HE SINGS IN ITALIAN | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
SHOUTING | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
# Sing, sing, sing, little birdie | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
# Sing, sing, sing it... # | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
# Sing, little birdie sing a song | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
# La-la-la-la la-la-la. # | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
# Sing, little birdie Sing your song | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
# Sing and you help our love along | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
# Sing, little birdie up above | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
# Sing the sound of love... # | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
'Good evening, this is David Jacobs speaking | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
'from the Royal Festival Hall. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
Alongside me in these boxes are ten commentators each interpreting | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
'the scene in their various languages. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
'In a few seconds, the mistress of ceremonies, Miss Catherine Boyle, | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
'will make her entrance and the show will begin. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
Tonight, this programme is being televised to no less | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
than 14 countries. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:06 | |
# Sing me high, high, high Sing me low... # | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
# Looking high, high, high. # | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
Oh, yes, "Looking high." | 0:08:11 | 0:08:12 | |
# Wondering why, why, why did she go, go, go | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
# For if I, I, I Don't find my love I know | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
# I shall die, die, die Cos I love her so. # | 0:08:20 | 0:08:25 | |
HE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
# Are you sure you won't be sorry? Comes tomorrow | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
# You won't want me back again to hold you tightly... # | 0:08:42 | 0:08:49 | |
THEY SING IN DUTCH | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
France had won twice and really couldn't take it on again, | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
so the BBC came along and said, "We'll do it | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
"because we've got this very nice set of new studios | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
"which we're just building, called the Television Centre," | 0:09:41 | 0:09:46 | |
and I think they wanted to show them off. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
'It was I think the only time in its history that it's ever been | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
'done in a studio.' | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
'Viewers in the UK will recognise this building | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
'but it will be less familiar to the 75 million | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
'viewers from 17 other European countries.' | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
We decided that we'd try and make the opening look... | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
Show off, I think, the Television Centre. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
So we decided to try and get a helicopter shot | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
of the building approaching at night. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:17 | |
The standard of the artists were very high in those days. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
There were people like Francoise Hardy for Monaco... | 0:10:24 | 0:10:29 | |
MUSIC: L'amour s'en va by Francoise Hardy | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
..Alain Barriere from France... | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
MUSIC: Elle etait si jolie by Alain Barriere | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
HE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
..and for Luxembourg was a Greek singer | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
called Nana Mouskouri. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
MUSIC: A force de prier by Nana Mouskouri | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
It all seemed to go pretty well, | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
until we got to the end | 0:10:57 | 0:10:58 | |
and then there was a bit of trouble with the voting. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
'Song number four, Denmark, two votes.' | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
Well, hold on, Oslo, just one moment. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
I'm afraid I shall have to ask you | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
to give these votes all over again, | 0:11:10 | 0:11:11 | |
because first, you have to give the number on the board, | 0:11:11 | 0:11:15 | |
then the number of... the name of the country. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
Katie Boyle said, "Well, sort yourselves out | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
"and we'll come back to you later and get your voting." | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
We will go on to Italy. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
When we got to the end, | 0:11:28 | 0:11:29 | |
Switzerland and the Danes were running neck-and-neck. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:34 | |
Well, now we have to go back to Norway for a very decisive vote. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
Norway come back on at the end of all the voting | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
and the second time round, | 0:11:41 | 0:11:42 | |
the votes were completely different to the first time. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
'Denmark, four votes. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
'Song number ten, Switzerland, one vote. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
'And that completes the vote of the Norwegian jury.' | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
AUDIENCE MURMURS | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
There was a bit of drawing of breath. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
MURMURING | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
I...thank you very much. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:04 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
And the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is...Denmark, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:11 | |
with the song Dansevise. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:12:13 | 0:12:14 | |
An investigation by the EBU afterwards | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
discovered the votes they did award in the end were correct. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
MUSIC: Non Ho L'Eta Gigliola Cinquetti | 0:12:26 | 0:12:31 | |
SHE SINGS IN ITALIAN | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
I was in the kitchen of our house | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
and I was watching Eurovision on the black and white set | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
and this beautiful young girl called Gigliola Cinquetti | 0:12:45 | 0:12:50 | |
came on the stage and I was totally mesmerised by her. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
It was just magical. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
MUSIC: Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son by France Gall | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
Serge Gainsbourg! | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
Serge Gainsbourg always had women hanging all over him. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
Brigitte Bardot would be hanging onto him | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
and smoking Je T'Aime cigarettes or something. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
Jesus Christ! | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
COMMENTATOR SPEAKS IN FRENCH | 0:14:04 | 0:14:09 | |
On va entendre maintenant "A Man Without Love". | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
# A man without love | 0:14:12 | 0:14:17 | |
# Is only half a man... # | 0:14:17 | 0:14:22 | |
If you look back to the UK music scene in the '50s and '60s, | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
the UK was making some of the biggest music in the world, | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
yet that wasn't coming through when it came to Eurovision. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
# A man without love... # | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
I think it was our lovely head of department Tom Sloan | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
who thought he should wear the kilt | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
and I'm not too sure whether a lot of people | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
in other European countries didn't find that a little bit...strange. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:50 | |
# ..For a man without love. # | 0:14:50 | 0:14:57 | |
Our entries look like they're from the decade previously. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
Great songs, if you like, but sort of parlour songs | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
and it was really '67 - | 0:15:02 | 0:15:04 | |
they sent Sandie Shaw, barefooted, to just look like she belonged | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
in the era that we were watching. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
Once upon a time, an English song, for the first time, | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
won the Eurovision Song Contest. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
I was lucky enough to be the one who sang it. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
MUSIC: Strange Brew by Cream | 0:15:20 | 0:15:24 | |
'67 was the Flower Power year and the songs were great. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:30 | |
A Whiter Shade Of Pale, | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
"if you go to San Francisco, wear flowers in your hair." | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
It was quite extraordinary. Every song was a winner. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
# Strange brew... # | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
The age group which buys records | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
has got much lower | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
in the last 25 or 30 years. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
And I believe that the standard of music | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
has got correspondingly lower as the age groups got lower. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
But 30 years from now, | 0:15:55 | 0:15:56 | |
the popular songs of today may be the popular songs then. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
With all due respect, I don't think the songs that you've written | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
will be heard of or remembered | 0:16:02 | 0:16:03 | |
or even thought about in 30 years' time. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
I was a songwriter in Tin Pan Alley | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
and the very first year that they really put in a contemporary singer, | 0:16:07 | 0:16:12 | |
everybody entered Eurovision, | 0:16:12 | 0:16:14 | |
with the exception of about four teams, | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
which was John Lennon and Paul McCartney, | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
Ray Davies, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards | 0:16:18 | 0:16:22 | |
and...who was the other one? | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
Pete Townsend of the Who, he'd have punched you in the nose | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
if you mentioned Eurovision. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
Do you think, as Tom Sloan has said, that Sandie Shaw represents 1967? | 0:16:28 | 0:16:34 | |
Well, she doesn't for me, | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
but I don't suppose I count, because I'm over 21. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
Because she's a hit artist all over Europe and this is what we want - | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
a hit song for the Eurovision Song Contest. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
And this time, we'll win it. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
# I've known him almost two years... # | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
It seems to be that the BBC picked you for this year's contest | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
because you're very big in Europe. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
They explained that to me, you know - | 0:16:53 | 0:16:54 | |
they wanted someone that represented the young pop scene | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
and they thought that I was the best one, which is nice. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
# I had a dream last night | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
# He's coming home | 0:17:03 | 0:17:04 | |
# Had a dream last night | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
# He's coming home | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
-# Now I feel so sad -So sad | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
-# So sad -So sad... # | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
She had a strange manager called Evie Taylor. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:19 | |
You think I'm very hard on you, but I'm not. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
-She's bringing me down. -I'm not bringing you down, cos you know it's the truth. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
And Evie says to me, I'm going to do something here. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
This is the night when we were performing the songs. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
I says, "What do you mean?" | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
She says... "I'm going to do something." | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
The band started - "Boop, boop, boop..." | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
And then Sandie started with a long note. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
# I... | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
And then Sandie said, "Stop. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
"I've come in at the wrong time. Can we start again?" | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
And apparently, | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
Evie had done something with the musician to... | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
I don't know, but it stopped it. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
And it was an attention-getter. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
And to me, that was a winning thing. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
ANNOUNCER SPEAKS IN GERMAN | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
I think Evie tried it again at the Eurovision and it never worked. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:16 | |
ANNOUNCER SPEAKS IN GERMAN | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
Her microphone didn't work at the beginning, if I remember rightly. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
The long note was silent. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
MUFFLED NOTE | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
# I wonder if one day that you'll say that you care... # | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
And I thought, "Oh, no! She's going to miss her moment! | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
"It's going to be awful! How can she sing now?" | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
# ..puppet on string... # | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
It didn't put Sandie out. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:40 | |
And she still did it, and did it brilliantly. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
# Love is just like a merry-go-round... # | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
Who kept the microphone off? | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
I don't know. It's interesting. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
# Then I'm up in the air... # | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
United Kingdom, seven votes. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
From the UK point of view, it wasn't needed. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
Puppet On A String, Grossbritanien. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:10 | |
The music business was gigantic. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
But from the BBC point of view, it was very important. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
# Like a puppet on a... | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
# String. # | 0:19:21 | 0:19:22 | |
The BBC were very keen to try | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
and win the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
in order that they could stage the 1968 contest, | 0:19:27 | 0:19:31 | |
which would be the first one to be broadcast in colour. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
We were basking in the limelight of being hit songwriters. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:43 | |
Having conquered Europe, we decided to slaughter them this time | 0:19:43 | 0:19:47 | |
and Phil, my songwriting partner, he played about on the piano. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:51 | |
He said, "I've written this for the Eurovision." | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
And the title was I Think I Love You. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:55 | |
# I think I love you I think I love you | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
# I think the world is fine if you will say you're mine. # | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
He said, "What do you think?" And I went, "Rubbish." | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
He says, "Well, help it." And I says, "It's five syllables?" | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
"Why don't we call it 'Congratulations and celebrations'?" | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
And that's how it came about. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
And the two guitarists that played on the demos of Congratulations, | 0:20:14 | 0:20:19 | |
it was Jimmy Page and John-Paul Jones. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:20:22 | 0:20:23 | |
MUSIC: Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
They hate being associated with Cliff's Congratulations - | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
two of the best guitarists in the world. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
Can you believe that? | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
They were going... # Congratulations... # | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
And they thought, "What's this load of nonsense?" | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
The UK press were wildly speculating | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
who was going to come second to the UK. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
There was a real confidence about the UK's chances of victory. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:51 | |
Cliff Richard was big star. He had the support of the home crowd | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
and really, there was nothing stopping him. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
He looks great. He's charismatic. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
The only thing Cliff couldn't do was dance. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
# Congratulations | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
# And celebrations | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
# When I tell everyone that you're in love with me... # | 0:21:08 | 0:21:12 | |
The UK were leading more or less | 0:21:12 | 0:21:14 | |
most of the...certainly throughout the second half of the votes. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
Bill Cotton came along, he says, "Up, you two. You've won it again." | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
And...Cliff's there, all excited. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
And then the last vote came in. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
I don't know how this happened, | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
but this song won it. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:34 | |
It came from nowhere. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
# La, la-la-la, la-la-la... # | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
If you listen to La-la-la-la, I think there's 98 la-la-las in it. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:45 | |
# La-la-la, la-la-la... # | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
It was a fix, because Cliff had won this. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
There's various rumours | 0:21:53 | 0:21:54 | |
that Franco desperately wanted to host Eurovision in Spain | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
and bribed the judges. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
Those have always been denied by both the European Broadcasting Union | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
and, unsurprisingly, the winner from Spain, Massiel. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
However, Cliff Richard remained open-minded. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
# My heart goes boom bang-a-bang Boom bang-a-bang | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
# When you are near | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
# Boom bang-a-bang Boom bang-a-bang | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
# Loud in my ear... # | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
Spain was a dictatorship when Lulu went on in that little pink dress. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:27 | |
I mean, what a joyful thing to think of. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
# It's such a lovely... # | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
It's almost like she's just stepped out of a Mini | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
and she's just swung onto these little European people and gone "Boom-Bang-A-Bang". | 0:22:34 | 0:22:38 | |
# When I'm in your arms | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
# Now you are near I wanna hear your heartbeat too | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
# Boom bang-a-bang-bang | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
# Boom bang-a-bang-bang | 0:22:47 | 0:22:49 | |
# Boom bang-a-bang-bang | 0:22:49 | 0:22:50 | |
# I love you | 0:22:50 | 0:22:51 | |
# Ole! # | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
It was a great victory for the British | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
in a year where everyone won. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
Ireland was going through economically hard days | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
and in the north, where I lived, very, very difficult days, | 0:23:08 | 0:23:13 | |
that we now call the Troubles. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
There were running battles every day. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
GUNSHOT | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
People were bewildered. On newspapers all around the world, | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
all people saw of my town was street battles | 0:23:24 | 0:23:29 | |
and friction and... just really terrible things. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:33 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
The song was very like a folk song and I was basically a folk singer | 0:23:42 | 0:23:47 | |
and it was written by two amateur writers. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
They were compositors in a Dublin newspaper. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:54 | |
And I was an amateur. I was at school. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
I had to go to Amsterdam with schoolbooks in my suitcase. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:04 | |
I never opened them, mind you, but I did take them! | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
And I was a complete outsider. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
Did I think it would win? | 0:24:12 | 0:24:13 | |
Absolutely not, because I didn't think I could win. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
SHE SINGS IN GERMAN | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
Katja Ebstein sang for Germany. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
Julio Iglesias sang for Spain. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:29 | |
# La-la, la-la-la... # | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
And...I loved Mary Hopkin. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
# Knock-knock, who's there? # | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
She was a very big star. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
So the presumption was that Mary would win | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
and I was very happy with that, because I thought she was great. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
The moment we've all been waiting for. Dana... | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
I was the last on. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
The little girl from Ireland on whom all our hopes are pinned. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
I just was talking to myself, saying "Don't forget the words, | 0:24:58 | 0:25:03 | |
"don't slip going down that slope." | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
And the stool was not a stool, it was a cylinder with no footrest. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
So, if you went too far, you fell off the back. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
If you didn't go up enough, you couldn't steady yourself. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
So practicalities... | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
# Snowdrops and daffodils | 0:25:16 | 0:25:20 | |
# Butterflies and bees | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
# Sailboats and fishermen | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
# Things of the sea... # | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
'I remember visualising the faces' | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
of family and friends back home in Derry. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
# All kinds of everything | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
# Remind me of you. # | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
Ireland, five votes. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:47 | |
Well, that certainly gets us off to a good start. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
I...I wasn't really interested in the voting. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
Irlande, neuve votes. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
CHEERING | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
All of a sudden, the floor manager grabbed me by the wrist | 0:25:58 | 0:26:03 | |
and started pulling me to the stage. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:07 | |
And Ireland has won! | 0:26:07 | 0:26:08 | |
And I'm pulling against him | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
and he said, you know, "Come with me, you've won." | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
And I said, "No, no, I haven't won, I couldn't have won." | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
And then Mary Hopkin said, "You've won." | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
-APPLAUSE -Our own Dana has won the Eurovision Song Contest. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:23 | |
From then on, it was like an unreal experience, | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
an out-of-body experience. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:28 | |
And, of course, there was pandemonium. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
I can tell you, here in Amsterdam, | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
there's going to be some celebrating tonight with the Irish party. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
Ireland hadn't had too much international success. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:48 | |
Ireland was still an emerging nation, I suppose. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
It had a lot poverty, the Celtic Tiger hadn't roared, | 0:26:51 | 0:26:56 | |
wouldn't roar for maybe another 10, 15 years. | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
Smiled on Saturday night. How about a big smile back? | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
Ireland, back then, you couldn't imagine that we'd ever win anything. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:06 | |
You know, we were not bred to win. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
We were bred to lose and be downtrodden. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
So, the fact that Europe decided little Dana | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
was the best song in Europe, it was enormous. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
The whole country was en fete. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
CROWDS CHEER | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
There was jubilation. I mean... | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
It was a very bright light... in very dark days. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:32 | |
At last, Saturday comes and excitement begins to build. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
Backstage at the Gaiety fairly crackles with tension | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
and it's all systems go. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:46 | |
Of course, we're all very conscious that we're showing | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
the face of Ireland to the world - the audience for this programme | 0:27:49 | 0:27:53 | |
is estimated at something between 500-1,000 million. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
Probably the largest audience ever for any entertainment programme. | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
We'd like our country to appear to them | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
as attractive and friendly, and also efficient. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:06 | |
Of course, we were watching it. This is our showcase to the world. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:10 | |
-Good luck, everyone. Knock 'em dead. -Three, two... | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
The BBC was tremendously supportive when Ireland had to host it, | 0:28:13 | 0:28:19 | |
because we had black and white TV. We didn't have colour. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
Five seconds. What's next? | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
Therefore, we didn't have colour cameras | 0:28:24 | 0:28:26 | |
and they were loaned by the British. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
It was done in the little theatre on which I had trod the boards, | 0:28:36 | 0:28:40 | |
the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, which is a little music hall. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
Took about, I suppose.... If it took 1,000 people, I'd be amazed. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 | |
and it had all the cameras and all the sound | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
and all the commentary positions and everything | 0:28:50 | 0:28:53 | |
and the two presenters sat in a box, | 0:28:53 | 0:28:55 | |
in a theatre box just by the side, to present. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
And that was an example of how small it was in the early '70s. | 0:28:57 | 0:29:03 | |
# Like a doll you throw away | 0:29:03 | 0:29:06 | |
# So sad and lonely all by myself | 0:29:06 | 0:29:12 | |
# I'm just your... | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
# Jack in the box You know whenever love knocks | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
# I'm gonna bounce up and down on my spring | 0:29:18 | 0:29:22 | |
# A toy you start when it stops | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
# I'm just your jack in the box | 0:29:24 | 0:29:27 | |
# Because for your love I'd do anything. # | 0:29:27 | 0:29:30 | |
MUSIC: Apres Toi by Vicky Leandros | 0:29:33 | 0:29:36 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:29:36 | 0:29:38 | |
This Eurovision Song Contest has presented Luxembourg | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
with its biggest security problem. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
MUSIC: Ey Sham by Ilanit | 0:30:03 | 0:30:05 | |
SHE SINGS IN HEBREW | 0:30:09 | 0:30:12 | |
The qualifying mechanic is that you're a member of the EBU, | 0:30:13 | 0:30:17 | |
the European Broadcasting Union. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:19 | |
So, for example, Israel is a member of the EBU, | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
so it can participate. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
SHE SINGS IN HEBREW | 0:30:23 | 0:30:27 | |
Some guards have even come from Israel itself, | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
in case Black September terrorists try something this weekend. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:39 | |
The concert hall was surrounded by soldiers, police, | 0:30:39 | 0:30:43 | |
armoured vehicles... | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
You know - an attack was expected. | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
-TERRY COMMENTATES: -So with every available digit crossed for Cliff, | 0:30:47 | 0:30:50 | |
here it is now. For the United Kingdom, our entry... | 0:30:50 | 0:30:54 | |
'Just before the show starts, the floor manager says, | 0:30:54 | 0:30:59 | |
"Please remain in your seats when you're applauding. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:02 | |
"Do not stand up, otherwise, you may be shot. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:05 | |
"Because we have to take care." | 0:31:05 | 0:31:08 | |
So, that was a fairly nerve-racking moment. | 0:31:08 | 0:31:12 | |
# Power to all our friends | 0:31:12 | 0:31:15 | |
# To the music that never ends | 0:31:17 | 0:31:21 | |
# To the people we want to be | 0:31:22 | 0:31:26 | |
# Baby, power to you and me. # | 0:31:27 | 0:31:32 | |
# I see a star... # | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
Camera A ready! | 0:31:34 | 0:31:36 | |
Yes, Camera A's ready. | 0:31:37 | 0:31:39 | |
PRESENTER SPEAKS IN SPANISH | 0:31:42 | 0:31:45 | |
1974 produced more chart hits in the contest in the UK | 0:31:51 | 0:31:56 | |
than perhaps any other year. | 0:31:56 | 0:31:58 | |
# Si... # | 0:31:58 | 0:32:01 | |
The Italian entry in 1974 | 0:32:01 | 0:32:03 | |
was the closest I ever got, I think, with Eurovision, | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
to a song that felt like something that | 0:32:05 | 0:32:07 | |
I would want to have written - | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
an incredibly tragic, heart-wrenching piece of drama. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:13 | |
MUSIC: Si by Gigliola Cinquetti | 0:32:13 | 0:32:17 | |
# Long, long live love | 0:32:39 | 0:32:44 | |
# Love... # | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
Olivia Newton John sang for the UK that year. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:48 | |
She was an established artist and, even then, | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
we were having problems getting established artists to sing | 0:32:51 | 0:32:54 | |
in the Eurovision Song Contest - can't risk being beaten. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:58 | |
But she did get beaten. | 0:32:58 | 0:32:59 | |
# Love, love, love, love | 0:32:59 | 0:33:03 | |
# Oh | 0:33:03 | 0:33:04 | |
# Long, long live love... # | 0:33:04 | 0:33:06 | |
I remember saying at the time, "Well, that's very plucky | 0:33:06 | 0:33:09 | |
"of Olivia Newton John, you know? | 0:33:09 | 0:33:11 | |
"I can't wait to see what's going to happen to her career now. | 0:33:11 | 0:33:15 | |
"Probably downhill." | 0:33:15 | 0:33:16 | |
And she went to Hollywood, starred in Grease | 0:33:16 | 0:33:19 | |
and became a huge international star, | 0:33:19 | 0:33:21 | |
which just shows that I know absolutely nothing. | 0:33:21 | 0:33:23 | |
# Long live love. # | 0:33:23 | 0:33:31 | |
-TERRY COMMENTATES: -These are the ABBA group. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
They made their first record in 1972 | 0:33:38 | 0:33:40 | |
and, if all the judges were men, which they're not, | 0:33:40 | 0:33:42 | |
I'm sure this group would get a lot of votes. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:45 | |
You'll see why in a minute. Their song is called... | 0:33:45 | 0:33:47 | |
Oh! And it's Napoleon. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:49 | |
Napoleon - no wonder. Their song is called Waterloo. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:52 | |
This is Sven-Olof Walldorf, | 0:33:52 | 0:33:54 | |
who's entered into the spirit of it all, dressed as Napoleon, | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
waiting for Waterloo by Abba for Sweden - watch this one. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:04 | |
They came on and they knocked everybody out. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:06 | |
The star-shaped guitar and the stack-heeled silver boots... | 0:34:09 | 0:34:13 | |
The whole thing just looked extraordinary. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:16 | |
Not only was that, like, the first step | 0:34:16 | 0:34:19 | |
in what became one of the most incredible pop careers ever, | 0:34:19 | 0:34:23 | |
but the fact that it felt like a rock song | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
and it wasn't a bouncy, typical Eurovision song. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:30 | |
It felt exciting. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
# Waterloo | 0:34:32 | 0:34:33 | |
# I was defeated, you won the war | 0:34:33 | 0:34:37 | |
# Waterloo | 0:34:38 | 0:34:40 | |
# Promise to love you forevermore... | 0:34:40 | 0:34:43 | |
-Sweden, three votes. -La Suede, trois votes. | 0:34:43 | 0:34:48 | |
Looking back now, of course, | 0:34:48 | 0:34:49 | |
it seems fairly obvious that ABBA would win with Waterloo. | 0:34:49 | 0:34:53 | |
No member of the British jury | 0:34:53 | 0:34:54 | |
gave ABBA's Waterloo any points whatsoever. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:57 | |
-Sweden, five votes. -Oy, oy, oy! | 0:34:57 | 0:35:01 | |
Of course, we all think they were destined to win | 0:35:01 | 0:35:05 | |
and they came fully formed, but they mightn't have won. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:08 | |
And then, I guess, the course of history would be very different. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
SWEDISH COMMENTATOR SPEAKS | 0:35:22 | 0:35:26 | |
# When you feelin' all right Everything is uptight | 0:35:32 | 0:35:35 | |
# Try to sing a song that goes ding ding-a-dong | 0:35:35 | 0:35:38 | |
# Let's put an end to our ding-dang-dong | 0:35:42 | 0:35:45 | |
# Ding-a-dong. # | 0:35:50 | 0:35:52 | |
# Ding-a-dong, listen to it | 0:35:52 | 0:35:54 | |
# Maybe it's a big hit | 0:35:54 | 0:35:56 | |
# Even when your lover is gone, gone, gone | 0:35:56 | 0:35:59 | |
# Sing ding-ding-dong... # | 0:35:59 | 0:36:00 | |
GLASS SMASHES | 0:36:07 | 0:36:08 | |
# The time is moving on | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
# And I really should be gone | 0:36:10 | 0:36:13 | |
# But you keep me hanging on for one more smile | 0:36:13 | 0:36:16 | |
-# I love you -I love you | 0:36:18 | 0:36:21 | |
# All the while | 0:36:21 | 0:36:23 | |
# With your cute little wave Will you promise that you'll save | 0:36:23 | 0:36:29 | |
# Your...kisses for me | 0:36:29 | 0:36:31 | |
# Save all your kisses for me | 0:36:31 | 0:36:35 | |
# Bye-bye, baby, bye-bye... # | 0:36:35 | 0:36:40 | |
MUSIC ECHOES | 0:36:40 | 0:36:42 | |
Rock Bottom is the name of the song | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
sung by Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran, | 0:36:46 | 0:36:48 | |
which you won't have seen winning the Song For Europe last night. | 0:36:48 | 0:36:52 | |
The contest took place at the New London Theatre | 0:36:52 | 0:36:54 | |
and was going to be seen by millions of viewers on BBC One, | 0:36:54 | 0:36:58 | |
but minutes before airtime, it was blacked out | 0:36:58 | 0:37:01 | |
because of an industrial dispute. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:03 | |
# Where are we? | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
# Rock bottom | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
# Tragedies | 0:37:07 | 0:37:09 | |
# We got 'em | 0:37:09 | 0:37:10 | |
# Remedy | 0:37:10 | 0:37:12 | |
# What do we... | 0:37:12 | 0:37:13 | |
# Rub it out and start it again... # | 0:37:13 | 0:37:17 | |
# Rock, rock | 0:37:17 | 0:37:18 | |
# Rock bottom | 0:37:18 | 0:37:20 | |
# Rock, rock | 0:37:20 | 0:37:21 | |
# Rock bottom | 0:37:21 | 0:37:23 | |
# Rock, rock | 0:37:23 | 0:37:24 | |
# Rock bottom | 0:37:24 | 0:37:25 | |
# Rub it out and start it again. # | 0:37:25 | 0:37:28 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:37:28 | 0:37:31 | |
# All it took was one glance | 0:37:36 | 0:37:39 | |
# To get my love, babe... # | 0:37:39 | 0:37:42 | |
# I've tried to make you into someone | 0:37:42 | 0:37:45 | |
# That you never wanted to be... # | 0:37:45 | 0:37:48 | |
# All I offer is my solid love... # | 0:37:48 | 0:37:53 | |
# Those were the bad old days | 0:37:55 | 0:37:58 | |
# Before I had it... # | 0:37:58 | 0:38:00 | |
'Back in the '70s' | 0:38:00 | 0:38:02 | |
Eurovision didn't have that, kind of, cheesy stigma about it. | 0:38:02 | 0:38:05 | |
It was still regarded with great affection | 0:38:05 | 0:38:08 | |
and we always stood a good chance of being in the top five, at least. | 0:38:08 | 0:38:12 | |
-# Doo-bee-doo -Doo-dee-doo-bee-doo... # | 0:38:12 | 0:38:14 | |
At that time, I don't think we came less than the top five. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
# Those were the bad old days... # | 0:38:16 | 0:38:18 | |
And we represented the UK in France in Paris, and we were tipped to win. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:24 | |
Singing the United Kingdom's entry | 0:38:24 | 0:38:26 | |
at number eight with Alyn Ainsworth, Coco. | 0:38:26 | 0:38:30 | |
# And you put all the good inside of me. # | 0:38:30 | 0:38:35 | |
We came 11th which, at the time, was the worst the UK had ever done, | 0:38:35 | 0:38:38 | |
so at the time, I thought, "I've let Queen and country down", you know? | 0:38:38 | 0:38:42 | |
I was quite depressed about it. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:44 | |
Having said that, it was my childhood dream, so I had fulfilled the dream, | 0:38:44 | 0:38:48 | |
even though it... didn't match up to what I'd hoped. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:53 | |
MUSIC: Mil Etter Mil by Jahn Teigen | 0:38:53 | 0:38:56 | |
THEY SING IN HEBREW | 0:39:11 | 0:39:14 | |
'Israel, eight points.' | 0:39:26 | 0:39:28 | |
Israel, ten points. | 0:39:28 | 0:39:30 | |
'Israel, douze points' | 0:39:30 | 0:39:32 | |
Israel, 12 points. | 0:39:32 | 0:39:33 | |
Israel, 12 points. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:36 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:39:36 | 0:39:38 | |
However, it was not universally popular across the Arabic countries. | 0:39:38 | 0:39:42 | |
As soon as it became obvious that Israel was going to win, | 0:39:42 | 0:39:44 | |
Jordan decide to replace the transmission | 0:39:44 | 0:39:47 | |
with a photograph of a vase of flowers. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
BEEP | 0:39:49 | 0:39:52 | |
And later on Saturday, | 0:39:59 | 0:40:00 | |
in international control rooms like this throughout Europe, | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
all eyes will be on Jerusalem for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
# Mary Ann, I'm gonna do what I can | 0:40:11 | 0:40:13 | |
# But I can't do more than try | 0:40:13 | 0:40:17 | |
# Tearin' my heart out tryin' to make it up to you | 0:40:17 | 0:40:21 | |
# Mary Ann, I'm gonna do what I can | 0:40:23 | 0:40:25 | |
# That's the truth and that's no lie | 0:40:25 | 0:40:29 | |
# Cryin' my eyes out Gotta get it back with you. # | 0:40:29 | 0:40:33 | |
This year's contest is being staged by Holland, | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
from here in the Congresgebouw at The Hague. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:46 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:40:48 | 0:40:50 | |
Song 17, sung in English by Johnny Logan. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:52 | |
# I've been waitin' such a long time... # | 0:40:54 | 0:40:57 | |
I was absolutely rooting for him. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
The song What's Another Year was a departure | 0:41:00 | 0:41:03 | |
from the songs of that era. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:07 | |
# What's another year? # | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
It was written by Shay Healy. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:11 | |
He didn't write songs for a living. He was a broadcaster, journalist. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:16 | |
But the words of that song, I believe, | 0:41:16 | 0:41:18 | |
came from a very personal experience. | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
He heard someone say the phrase | 0:41:20 | 0:41:22 | |
and it struck a chord with him in his life. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:25 | |
# What's another year? # | 0:41:25 | 0:41:27 | |
He didn't sit down to write a Eurovision hit. | 0:41:27 | 0:41:31 | |
And I do think you can... | 0:41:31 | 0:41:33 | |
Something in you knows that. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:35 | |
Ireland have done it, as you can see. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:37 | |
There's Johnny Logan, kissing Katja Ebstein... | 0:41:37 | 0:41:40 | |
..because...he comes on stage now, Johnny Logan. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:46 | |
He's going to be jumping like that for quite a while. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:49 | |
# For someone who is getting used to being... | 0:41:49 | 0:41:54 | |
# Alone? # | 0:41:54 | 0:41:59 | |
-APPLAUSE -Emotional performance from the winner, Johnny Logan. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
# Trust your inner vision... # | 0:42:02 | 0:42:05 | |
They're Cheryl, Mike, Jay and Bobby and the venue is Dublin, | 0:42:05 | 0:42:08 | |
where they're in competition | 0:42:08 | 0:42:10 | |
with entrants from 19 other Eurovision countries. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:14 | |
I was on the jury that year | 0:42:14 | 0:42:16 | |
and as soon as we heard Bucks Fizz, we went, "That's the one." | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
The Eurovision Song Contest, | 0:42:19 | 0:42:21 | |
live from Dublin, starting at eight o'clock tonight | 0:42:21 | 0:42:24 | |
on BBC One. | 0:42:24 | 0:42:26 | |
But do you think, generally, because the stakes are so high now, | 0:42:26 | 0:42:29 | |
that the Eurovision Song Contest is perhaps more important than it used to be? | 0:42:29 | 0:42:32 | |
Because it gives you such an enormous, kind of... | 0:42:32 | 0:42:35 | |
So many people see you... | 0:42:35 | 0:42:36 | |
I think it's... How many? 500 million? | 0:42:36 | 0:42:38 | |
500 million - that's such a... | 0:42:38 | 0:42:40 | |
I mean, that's the biggest amount of press and publicity | 0:42:40 | 0:42:44 | |
you could ever get in an hour or so. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:46 | |
The lady who put us together | 0:42:46 | 0:42:48 | |
took a lot of time, | 0:42:48 | 0:42:49 | |
and she made sure all the details | 0:42:49 | 0:42:51 | |
were right before we went together. | 0:42:51 | 0:42:53 | |
He was the main ingredient, so we all had to be short and blonde. | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
HE LAUGHS Yes, I am... | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
I was 5' 10", then. | 0:43:00 | 0:43:02 | |
-CHERYL SCOFFS -What, in your dreams? | 0:43:02 | 0:43:04 | |
We were one of the first manufactured bands | 0:43:04 | 0:43:06 | |
which, at the time, was scorned upon, | 0:43:06 | 0:43:08 | |
but now, of course, it's kind of the norm. | 0:43:08 | 0:43:10 | |
It's expected that protesters | 0:43:10 | 0:43:11 | |
supporting the H Block hunger strikers will picket contestants | 0:43:11 | 0:43:15 | |
before and after the concert. | 0:43:15 | 0:43:16 | |
This report from Peter Gould. | 0:43:16 | 0:43:18 | |
A police escort is being provided for the coaches bringing the performers | 0:43:18 | 0:43:21 | |
to the Exhibition Centre where the Song Contest is being staged. | 0:43:21 | 0:43:26 | |
Because of this IRA threat, when we were travelling anywhere, | 0:43:26 | 0:43:29 | |
we were in our own coach. | 0:43:29 | 0:43:31 | |
We had two outriders and we were going through the red lights, | 0:43:31 | 0:43:34 | |
not thinking of the danger, or the reason they were doing it, | 0:43:34 | 0:43:38 | |
of being an IRA target. We were thinking, | 0:43:38 | 0:43:40 | |
"Whoa, this is really exciting, it's like being the Queen!" | 0:43:40 | 0:43:43 | |
Bucks Fizz, the group performing the UK's entry, | 0:43:43 | 0:43:45 | |
are one of the favourites to win. | 0:43:45 | 0:43:47 | |
# Blue, blue | 0:43:47 | 0:43:50 | |
# Blue Johnny, blue... # | 0:43:50 | 0:43:52 | |
SHE SINGS IN GERMAN | 0:43:52 | 0:43:55 | |
I said, "Germany are going to win this." | 0:43:55 | 0:43:58 | |
That German song was nice. | 0:43:58 | 0:44:01 | |
It was competitive, definitely. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:03 | |
I remember going and putting my make-up on backstage. | 0:44:03 | 0:44:06 | |
There was definitely a few dagger looks from other competitors. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:10 | |
And I just gave them back. | 0:44:10 | 0:44:12 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:44:12 | 0:44:15 | |
Of course, it's the most nervous you're going to be. | 0:44:16 | 0:44:19 | |
# You gotta speed it up... # | 0:44:19 | 0:44:22 | |
Representing your country and it meaning so much. | 0:44:22 | 0:44:25 | |
But we started, we did the... # Gotta speed it... | 0:44:25 | 0:44:28 | |
SHE MUMBLES THE WORDS | 0:44:28 | 0:44:29 | |
-Oh, yeah. -# ...making you mind up. # | 0:44:29 | 0:44:31 | |
And then Michael looked at me and went, "Here we go." | 0:44:31 | 0:44:34 | |
Here we go! | 0:44:34 | 0:44:35 | |
And I thought, "That's it" - just Mike Nolan and me and Jay and Bobby | 0:44:35 | 0:44:39 | |
and we're just doing... we're just having some fun. | 0:44:39 | 0:44:41 | |
# Get a run for your money and take a chance | 0:44:41 | 0:44:43 | |
# And it'll turn out right... # | 0:44:43 | 0:44:46 | |
And that... You know, the skirts dance move was genius. | 0:44:46 | 0:44:49 | |
# You're making your mind up... # | 0:44:49 | 0:44:50 | |
Jay wanted short skirts, because Jay is tiny, | 0:44:50 | 0:44:54 | |
and so I didn't want to wear short skirts, I wanted to wear long. | 0:44:54 | 0:44:58 | |
I've got footballer's legs. | 0:44:58 | 0:44:59 | |
It was getting on my nerves, and I went "Oh...let's have both." | 0:44:59 | 0:45:02 | |
And if remember rightly, | 0:45:02 | 0:45:04 | |
it was the choreographer who said, "That's perfect!" | 0:45:04 | 0:45:06 | |
# But if you wanna see some more | 0:45:06 | 0:45:09 | |
# Bending the rules of the game will let you find... # | 0:45:09 | 0:45:12 | |
The Bucks Fizz skirt was an enormous scandal, let me tell you, | 0:45:12 | 0:45:16 | |
because...sex and nudity in Ireland was in its infancy, then - | 0:45:16 | 0:45:24 | |
and, indeed, has remained so. And rightly so. | 0:45:24 | 0:45:26 | |
Bucks Fizz, on the night, sounded so bad. They were really woeful. | 0:45:26 | 0:45:31 | |
But because we'd heard the song a lot, it didn't matter. | 0:45:31 | 0:45:34 | |
But if you were hearing it for the first time, | 0:45:34 | 0:45:37 | |
that was not a winning performance. | 0:45:37 | 0:45:39 | |
# For making your mind up. # | 0:45:39 | 0:45:41 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:45:42 | 0:45:44 | |
The first country that gave us votes was Austria. | 0:45:44 | 0:45:47 | |
'Royaume Uni, quatre points.' | 0:45:47 | 0:45:49 | |
United Kingdom, four points. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:51 | |
They said four and I thought, | 0:45:51 | 0:45:52 | |
"Well, we've got another 26 countries to go yet, don't let's all panic." | 0:45:52 | 0:45:56 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:45:56 | 0:45:57 | |
'United Kingdom, eight points.' | 0:45:57 | 0:46:00 | |
-That's a bit more like it. -Eight points. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:02 | |
'We got lots of eights.' | 0:46:02 | 0:46:03 | |
We won only by about, what, three points? | 0:46:03 | 0:46:05 | |
-Four points. -Four points, yeah. | 0:46:05 | 0:46:07 | |
Without that Austrian four, we shouldn't have won. | 0:46:07 | 0:46:09 | |
Heavens... Heavens, they've done it again | 0:46:09 | 0:46:13 | |
with Making Your Mind Up. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:15 | |
Another win for the United Kingdom. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:17 | |
I'll take a small bet that this might well go to number one | 0:46:17 | 0:46:20 | |
in the British Hit Parade. | 0:46:20 | 0:46:22 | |
-And I was like a lunatic when we won, weren't we? -Yes, you were. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:25 | |
-And you've never changed. -Yes. | 0:46:25 | 0:46:26 | |
Yes, absolutely beside themselves. | 0:46:27 | 0:46:29 | |
MUSIC: No Bombardeen Buenos Aires by Charley Garcia | 0:46:29 | 0:46:34 | |
The Eurovision Song Contest is coming this year from the brand-new, | 0:46:47 | 0:46:50 | |
multimillion-pound Harrogate Conference Centre in North Yorkshire. | 0:46:50 | 0:46:53 | |
Bienvenue a Harrogate! Welcome to Harrogate. | 0:46:53 | 0:46:56 | |
This is the question on all Europe's lips tonight. | 0:46:56 | 0:46:59 | |
Ou est Harrogate? Wo ist Harrogate? | 0:46:59 | 0:47:01 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:47:01 | 0:47:03 | |
That's the place, in North Yorkshire. | 0:47:03 | 0:47:05 | |
Portugal want a ukulele, who's doing that? | 0:47:14 | 0:47:17 | |
Yes - exhibition strokes. | 0:47:17 | 0:47:19 | |
Do you think for the lads in the orchestra...? | 0:47:19 | 0:47:21 | |
I mean, it's obviously very hard work this week, | 0:47:21 | 0:47:24 | |
rehearsing and doing a live show. | 0:47:24 | 0:47:26 | |
-But do you think it's a challenge for them? -Oh, yes. | 0:47:26 | 0:47:28 | |
I think they're very proud to do it, | 0:47:28 | 0:47:30 | |
because we consider ourselves to be the best. | 0:47:30 | 0:47:33 | |
CHEERING Eurovision Song Contest is either | 0:47:33 | 0:47:36 | |
a showcase for the best of international pop | 0:47:36 | 0:47:38 | |
or a collection of instantly forgettable rearrangements | 0:47:38 | 0:47:41 | |
of the same three chords, | 0:47:41 | 0:47:43 | |
mostly sung in languages you can't understand. | 0:47:43 | 0:47:45 | |
# One step further... # | 0:47:45 | 0:47:47 | |
For one reason or another, the quality of the songs | 0:47:47 | 0:47:49 | |
has now become something of a joke. | 0:47:49 | 0:47:51 | |
This year's British entry, for instance, | 0:47:51 | 0:47:53 | |
contains the immortal word "tooken", which is unlikely to appear | 0:47:53 | 0:47:56 | |
in the new edition of Roget's Thesaurus. | 0:47:56 | 0:47:58 | |
# I could've tooken one step further... # | 0:47:58 | 0:48:01 | |
THEY HUM SONG | 0:48:01 | 0:48:04 | |
You're both going to face this way. | 0:48:04 | 0:48:05 | |
I think it's a very, very good song and people seem to like us, | 0:48:05 | 0:48:09 | |
which is really, really nice, and the routine and everything, | 0:48:09 | 0:48:11 | |
the whole package for the song, is so good. | 0:48:11 | 0:48:15 | |
I think we stand a really, really good chance. | 0:48:15 | 0:48:17 | |
-And it's exactly the same, but go round the other way. -The other way. | 0:48:17 | 0:48:20 | |
And you look at her and... No, you go that way. | 0:48:20 | 0:48:23 | |
'I got my first break last year' | 0:48:23 | 0:48:25 | |
when I was asked to do Bucks Fizz | 0:48:25 | 0:48:26 | |
and I didn't really want to do it at first, | 0:48:26 | 0:48:28 | |
cos I've never choreographed with singers and it was fun, | 0:48:28 | 0:48:31 | |
it was so exciting, you know, when they won. | 0:48:31 | 0:48:35 | |
But it taught me this year, I think, that a gimmick always works. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:38 | |
Bucks Fizz had won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest | 0:48:41 | 0:48:44 | |
with the gimmick of ripping the skirts off | 0:48:44 | 0:48:46 | |
and you can see, in 1982, that this continues with a number of acts | 0:48:46 | 0:48:50 | |
and it almost becomes a Eurovision dance competition. | 0:48:50 | 0:48:53 | |
But ultimately, the contest was won by a girl soloist, | 0:48:53 | 0:48:56 | |
just sitting there, | 0:48:56 | 0:48:58 | |
just performing the song straight to camera. | 0:48:58 | 0:49:00 | |
MUSIC: Ein Bisschen Frieden by Nicole | 0:49:00 | 0:49:04 | |
'It's a song about peace.' | 0:49:04 | 0:49:08 | |
You can't run over the stage from this side to the other side, | 0:49:08 | 0:49:10 | |
so you have to concentrate | 0:49:10 | 0:49:13 | |
on the lyrics, the message. | 0:49:13 | 0:49:15 | |
SHE SINGS IN GERMAN | 0:49:15 | 0:49:18 | |
'I didn't see the audience' | 0:49:18 | 0:49:20 | |
and I didn't want to know that 700 million people are looking out. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:24 | |
-TERRY: -I'm inclined to think that Britain's Bardo | 0:49:24 | 0:49:27 | |
must have a very good chance with One Step Further. | 0:49:27 | 0:49:30 | |
It's entirely significant that throughout the hundred of years that | 0:49:30 | 0:49:33 | |
I did the Eurovision Song Contest, I never once picked the winner. | 0:49:33 | 0:49:37 | |
'And Germany, 12 points.' | 0:49:39 | 0:49:41 | |
That's Ralph Siegel, there, with Nicole. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:43 | |
'Hello, Jeanne. Hello, Harrogate. Jerusalem calling.' | 0:49:43 | 0:49:46 | |
Really, most important for me... | 0:49:46 | 0:49:49 | |
..it was the point that a German girl | 0:49:50 | 0:49:56 | |
with a song about peace... got 12 points from Israel. | 0:49:56 | 0:50:00 | |
Germany, 12 points. | 0:50:00 | 0:50:03 | |
'Ralph took my hand and said, "That's incredible." ' | 0:50:03 | 0:50:07 | |
The first time Germany gets 12 points from Israel, | 0:50:07 | 0:50:10 | |
and we know our history. | 0:50:10 | 0:50:12 | |
-That was... -SHE EXHALES | 0:50:13 | 0:50:15 | |
Ein Bisschen Frieden from Germany. | 0:50:16 | 0:50:20 | |
'I went to the stage again.' | 0:50:20 | 0:50:23 | |
-TERRY: -We'll hear a reprise of the winning song. | 0:50:23 | 0:50:26 | |
And I sang it in four languages, | 0:50:26 | 0:50:30 | |
but nobody knew that. | 0:50:30 | 0:50:31 | |
'I had five seconds from the first to the refrain.' | 0:50:33 | 0:50:36 | |
"Should I, should I not? Should I, should I not? | 0:50:36 | 0:50:39 | |
"Should I or should I not? Yes. | 0:50:39 | 0:50:42 | |
"I will make it." | 0:50:42 | 0:50:43 | |
'I thought, "OK, we're in England, what about English?" ' | 0:50:45 | 0:50:48 | |
# A little loving, a little giving | 0:50:48 | 0:50:52 | |
# To build a dream for the world we live in... # | 0:50:52 | 0:50:56 | |
'So if you saw the video, you will see the faces of my musicians' | 0:50:56 | 0:51:00 | |
looked at each other and said, "What's going on? What's going on?" | 0:51:00 | 0:51:05 | |
'Then, I turned to French.' | 0:51:05 | 0:51:06 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:51:08 | 0:51:10 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:51:13 | 0:51:16 | |
-MALE REPORTER: -It's nearly six weeks now | 0:51:16 | 0:51:18 | |
since the Israelis began their advance into Lebanon. | 0:51:18 | 0:51:21 | |
Since then, international opinion against the war has hardened | 0:51:21 | 0:51:25 | |
and Israeli casualties have mounted. | 0:51:25 | 0:51:27 | |
I was invited to Tel Aviv to sing the songs in front of soldiers. | 0:51:28 | 0:51:34 | |
It was a little bit dangerous, but I wasn't afraid. | 0:51:34 | 0:51:37 | |
I knew I must do this. | 0:51:39 | 0:51:40 | |
All the soldiers, young people, girls and boys, sat down | 0:51:42 | 0:51:47 | |
in front of me on a hill. | 0:51:47 | 0:51:49 | |
'When I started singing, they put down their weapons | 0:51:49 | 0:51:53 | |
'and took each other's hand and listened.' | 0:51:53 | 0:51:59 | |
# We are feathers | 0:51:59 | 0:52:03 | |
# On the breeze... # | 0:52:03 | 0:52:07 | |
'The wish in everybody's heart for peace was alive.' | 0:52:07 | 0:52:10 | |
I think it will be ever alive, this wish. | 0:52:10 | 0:52:13 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:52:18 | 0:52:20 | |
Great applause for Germany's Nicole from Saarbrucken. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
17 years of age. | 0:52:24 | 0:52:27 | |
Marvellous victory. | 0:52:27 | 0:52:28 | |
Welcome to the 28th Eurovision Song Contest in Munich. | 0:52:36 | 0:52:40 | |
MUSIC: I'm Never Giving Up by Sweet Dreams | 0:52:40 | 0:52:42 | |
# I'm never giving up | 0:52:42 | 0:52:43 | |
# Not giving in... # | 0:52:43 | 0:52:45 | |
Israel, huit points. | 0:52:45 | 0:52:47 | |
As the votes started coming in, we were doing pretty well. | 0:52:47 | 0:52:50 | |
United Kingdom, 12 points. | 0:52:50 | 0:52:51 | |
Whoa, we did. United Kingdom get the 12 points. | 0:52:51 | 0:52:54 | |
When the votes are coming in, you've got cameras on your face | 0:52:54 | 0:52:57 | |
and you've got to go, "Oh, yes. We got ten points." | 0:52:57 | 0:53:00 | |
"We got two points. Oh, well, you know, never mind. | 0:53:00 | 0:53:02 | |
"We got two points, but we're still happy." | 0:53:02 | 0:53:04 | |
Not really. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:05 | |
Finally, Luxembourg, 12 points. | 0:53:05 | 0:53:07 | |
When the votes started not to come in | 0:53:07 | 0:53:09 | |
and Luxembourg started getting the 12s, | 0:53:09 | 0:53:11 | |
you started noticing all the TV camera crews slightly moving away. | 0:53:11 | 0:53:16 | |
For the fifth time, Luxembourg has won the Eurovision Song Contest. | 0:53:16 | 0:53:19 | |
MUSIC: Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley by Herreys | 0:53:19 | 0:53:21 | |
# Diggi-loo diggi-ley | 0:53:21 | 0:53:23 | |
# Life is goin' my way | 0:53:23 | 0:53:25 | |
# When I'm walkin' in my golden shoes... # | 0:53:25 | 0:53:29 | |
MUSIC: Lenge Leve Livet by Dollie de Luxe | 0:53:29 | 0:53:32 | |
THEY SING IN NORWEGIAN | 0:53:32 | 0:53:34 | |
And, finally, are you ready? | 0:53:37 | 0:53:39 | |
Norway, 12 points. | 0:53:39 | 0:53:41 | |
You surprise and astound me(!) | 0:53:41 | 0:53:43 | |
MUSIC: La Det Swinge by Bobbysocks! | 0:53:43 | 0:53:46 | |
THEY SING IN NORWEGIAN | 0:53:46 | 0:53:47 | |
I remember it very well. | 0:53:56 | 0:53:58 | |
They won in their neighbouring country, Sweden, | 0:53:58 | 0:54:00 | |
which also gave it a special touch. | 0:54:00 | 0:54:03 | |
They drove back to Oslo, went across the border to Norway. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:07 | |
People cheered with flags all the way from the border and up to Oslo. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:11 | |
It was a fantastic moment. | 0:54:11 | 0:54:13 | |
# Soon we will know | 0:54:18 | 0:54:20 | |
# Who will be the best | 0:54:20 | 0:54:23 | |
# In the Eurovision Song Contest. # | 0:54:23 | 0:54:29 | |
MUSIC: J'aime La Vie by Sandra Kim | 0:54:34 | 0:54:36 | |
THEY SING IN FRENCH | 0:54:36 | 0:54:38 | |
MUSIC: Soldiers of Love by Liliane Saint-Pierre | 0:54:50 | 0:54:53 | |
MUSIC: Boogaloo by Lotta Engberg | 0:54:53 | 0:54:56 | |
MUSIC: Ja Sam Za Ples by Novi Fosili | 0:54:59 | 0:55:02 | |
# ..This is OK | 0:55:02 | 0:55:04 | |
# This is OK... # | 0:55:04 | 0:55:06 | |
MUSIC: Shir Habatlanim by Datner & Kushnir | 0:55:06 | 0:55:08 | |
The silly dressy-up, bing-bongy-bang idea, | 0:55:12 | 0:55:14 | |
which sort of took hold from the '80s onwards, | 0:55:14 | 0:55:19 | |
where everyone thought it was a bit of a joke | 0:55:19 | 0:55:21 | |
and therefore we turned it into a bit of a joke. | 0:55:21 | 0:55:24 | |
It was a great shame. | 0:55:24 | 0:55:25 | |
# Just hold me now | 0:55:27 | 0:55:29 | |
# And I will know though we're apart... # | 0:55:29 | 0:55:33 | |
Dear Johnny Logan. When you think that he won it twice... | 0:55:33 | 0:55:37 | |
..he should have been a bigger star than Elvis. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:41 | |
Come on, Ireland. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:42 | |
# What do you say when words are not enough...? # | 0:55:42 | 0:55:46 | |
Perhaps it's an indication of how... | 0:55:46 | 0:55:50 | |
lightly people take the Eurovision Song Contest. | 0:55:50 | 0:55:54 | |
# What can I say now my words are not enough? # | 0:55:54 | 0:56:01 | |
I can't sing any more. Thank you. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:03 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:56:03 | 0:56:06 | |
TERRY SPEAKS IRISH | 0:56:09 | 0:56:13 | |
Good evening and welcome to Dublin, | 0:56:13 | 0:56:14 | |
scene of the 33rd running of the Eurovision Song Contest. | 0:56:14 | 0:56:18 | |
Who said it wouldn't last? | 0:56:19 | 0:56:20 | |
Dublin - one of the great ones. | 0:56:20 | 0:56:24 | |
I remember it above all for the presence of Bruce Forsyth, | 0:56:24 | 0:56:28 | |
who I had invited to come. | 0:56:28 | 0:56:31 | |
His daughter Julie had written our entry that year, Go, | 0:56:31 | 0:56:35 | |
sung by Scott Fitzgerald. | 0:56:35 | 0:56:37 | |
# Go before you break my heart | 0:56:37 | 0:56:42 | |
# Once more, I know... # | 0:56:42 | 0:56:45 | |
Are Italy going to give United Kingdom...? | 0:56:45 | 0:56:47 | |
They are. 12 points to the United Kingdom. | 0:56:47 | 0:56:49 | |
As the voting was proceeding, we were still in chances for the gold. | 0:56:55 | 0:57:01 | |
There's five points in it, I can tell you, | 0:57:01 | 0:57:03 | |
between the United Kingdom and Switzerland. | 0:57:03 | 0:57:06 | |
So, can Scott Fitzgerald hang on by the skin of his teeth | 0:57:06 | 0:57:10 | |
or will Celine Dion catch up? | 0:57:10 | 0:57:12 | |
Everything depends on Yugoslavia. | 0:57:12 | 0:57:15 | |
It went absolutely to the wire | 0:57:15 | 0:57:18 | |
and came down on the last vote to one point. | 0:57:18 | 0:57:23 | |
We've got to get the 10 or the 12 to win it. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:26 | |
Norway, 10 points. | 0:57:27 | 0:57:28 | |
10 points to Norway. Who's getting the 12? | 0:57:29 | 0:57:33 | |
Look at Bruce Forsyth. | 0:57:33 | 0:57:34 | |
What a cliff-hanger. | 0:57:36 | 0:57:37 | |
And finally, France. | 0:57:39 | 0:57:40 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:57:40 | 0:57:42 | |
I'm still in recovery from that moment. | 0:57:46 | 0:57:49 | |
Just pipped the United Kingdom with the closest finish | 0:57:49 | 0:57:51 | |
I've ever seen in the Eurovision Song Contest. | 0:57:51 | 0:57:54 | |
Pipped them by one point. | 0:57:54 | 0:57:56 | |
There's the winner, Switzerland's Celine Dion. | 0:57:56 | 0:57:59 | |
MUSIC: Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi by Celine Dion | 0:57:59 | 0:58:01 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:58:01 | 0:58:03 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:58:06 | 0:58:07 | |
MUSIC: J'ai Vole La Vie by Nathalie Paque | 0:58:10 | 0:58:12 | |
SHE SINGS IN FRENCH | 0:58:13 | 0:58:16 | |
MUSIC: Derekh Hamelekh by Gili and Galit | 0:58:16 | 0:58:19 | |
THEY SING IN HEBREW | 0:58:19 | 0:58:21 | |
MUSIC: Give A Little Love Back To The World by Emma | 0:58:29 | 0:58:34 | |
# We can't go on | 0:58:34 | 0:58:37 | |
# Taking out forever | 0:58:37 | 0:58:39 | |
# Give a little love back to the world | 0:58:41 | 0:58:47 | |
# We've still got time | 0:58:47 | 0:58:49 | |
# Let's do it together... # | 0:58:49 | 0:58:52 | |
This one couldn't be anything else but Spanish. | 0:58:54 | 0:58:57 | |
Azucar Moreno - Bandido. | 0:58:57 | 0:58:59 | |
When you're ready. | 0:59:01 | 0:59:02 | |
I don't like it. It's going too smoothly. | 0:59:04 | 0:59:06 | |
Listen, will I hum you the first couple of bars | 0:59:06 | 0:59:08 | |
while we're waiting here? | 0:59:08 | 0:59:10 | |
MUSIC BEGINS | 0:59:12 | 0:59:14 | |
They're applauding the tape technician now. | 0:59:42 | 0:59:45 | |
Very nice. | 0:59:45 | 0:59:47 | |
It has to be something... | 0:59:54 | 0:59:55 | |
Not something that somebody would either love our hate, | 0:59:55 | 0:59:58 | |
something that everybody, as a whole, will like | 0:59:58 | 1:00:00 | |
and get a good feeling from, so it can't be too unique in its style. | 1:00:00 | 1:00:04 | |
What do you think your chances are in the contest? | 1:00:04 | 1:00:06 | |
There is no contest. We've got it. | 1:00:06 | 1:00:09 | |
# And half the world have too much | 1:00:09 | 1:00:12 | |
# Their only hunger is their greed... # | 1:00:12 | 1:00:16 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 1:00:16 | 1:00:18 | |
It's a really plucky thing to do, cos you're an established star. | 1:00:18 | 1:00:21 | |
I mean, you'll be expected to win, that's what I mean. | 1:00:21 | 1:00:24 | |
Oh, really? | 1:00:24 | 1:00:26 | |
I hope I do, but that's not the reason that I'm doing it. | 1:00:26 | 1:00:30 | |
I'm trying to work out the reason that I am doing it right now. | 1:00:30 | 1:00:33 | |
I went for Michael Ball. I mean, he has a miraculous voice | 1:00:33 | 1:00:38 | |
and fine good looks. I thought there was a winning combination. | 1:00:38 | 1:00:42 | |
So I invited him to come to Television Centre | 1:00:42 | 1:00:45 | |
to have a meeting with him | 1:00:45 | 1:00:48 | |
in order to propose that he should sing the British entry. | 1:00:48 | 1:00:52 | |
I think there was a moment where it was almost palpable | 1:00:52 | 1:00:58 | |
that the air was leaving his body | 1:00:58 | 1:01:00 | |
as he understood what I was saying to him. | 1:01:00 | 1:01:04 | |
He left my office saying, of course he would think about it, | 1:01:04 | 1:01:09 | |
but that I shouldn't hold my breath. | 1:01:09 | 1:01:11 | |
MUSIC: One Step Out Of Time by Michael Ball | 1:01:11 | 1:01:15 | |
# One reason to put this love on the line... # | 1:01:15 | 1:01:20 | |
And, again, to my sad disappointment, | 1:01:20 | 1:01:24 | |
we got the silver, we came second. | 1:01:24 | 1:01:27 | |
It's Ireland that's won it for the fourth time. | 1:01:29 | 1:01:32 | |
Fourth win for Ireland. | 1:01:35 | 1:01:37 | |
MUSIC: Why Me? by Linda Martin | 1:01:37 | 1:01:39 | |
MUSIC: Go West by Pet Shop Boys | 1:01:45 | 1:01:48 | |
The people, in the shape of the more adventurous demonstrators, | 1:01:48 | 1:01:51 | |
started climbing aboard, the army caved in. | 1:01:51 | 1:01:54 | |
Whatever Mr Gorbachev decides, the people are unlikely ever again | 1:02:04 | 1:02:08 | |
to allow the Communist machine to dominate their lives. | 1:02:08 | 1:02:12 | |
At that time, new nations were popping up like mushrooms, | 1:02:12 | 1:02:20 | |
all of whom wanted to be in the Eurovision Song Contest. | 1:02:20 | 1:02:25 | |
It's the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow night, | 1:02:28 | 1:02:30 | |
time to send the brain away for the weekend. | 1:02:30 | 1:02:32 | |
The competition's got used to the sneers, | 1:02:32 | 1:02:34 | |
but for the first time in a long while, | 1:02:34 | 1:02:36 | |
the organiser's claims about building international understanding | 1:02:36 | 1:02:40 | |
through music are being taken at face value, | 1:02:40 | 1:02:42 | |
at least by one small country. | 1:02:42 | 1:02:44 | |
The Bosnian team has arrived with a song and a story | 1:02:47 | 1:02:50 | |
to prick the conscience of Europe. | 1:02:50 | 1:02:52 | |
Their entry, entitled The Whole World's Pain, | 1:02:52 | 1:02:55 | |
was written and rehearsed under gunfire in Sarajevo. | 1:02:55 | 1:02:59 | |
Two months ago in the dead of night, they ran full pelt | 1:02:59 | 1:03:02 | |
across the UN-controlled airfield in the city, braving sniper fire. | 1:03:02 | 1:03:06 | |
People risking their lives to take part in a TV show | 1:03:07 | 1:03:10 | |
is a way of saying, "We're here. | 1:03:10 | 1:03:12 | |
"Despite all of this stuff that's going on, we're here | 1:03:12 | 1:03:15 | |
"and this is what we've risked to get there." | 1:03:15 | 1:03:17 | |
Although the group made it, | 1:03:17 | 1:03:19 | |
six other people were shot dead trying to escape that night. | 1:03:19 | 1:03:22 | |
We are not here to use that tragedy in our country. | 1:03:22 | 1:03:26 | |
It did sound a bit like it, that's why... | 1:03:26 | 1:03:29 | |
Maybe for you, but that's reality in my country. | 1:03:29 | 1:03:32 | |
It's happened. It's already happened. | 1:03:32 | 1:03:35 | |
That's happening now, you have to understand that. | 1:03:35 | 1:03:39 | |
That's really happening. | 1:03:39 | 1:03:41 | |
-Yeah, I do believe it. -Yes. | 1:03:41 | 1:03:42 | |
But then what happened if every other country would do the same? | 1:03:42 | 1:03:45 | |
This should be...? | 1:03:45 | 1:03:46 | |
Oh, you are lucky you haven't this problem in your country. | 1:03:46 | 1:03:49 | |
MUSIC: Sva Bol Svijeta by Fazla | 1:03:49 | 1:03:51 | |
THEY SING IN BOSNIAN | 1:03:51 | 1:03:53 | |
Well, that deserves to get the biggest roar of the night. | 1:03:57 | 1:04:00 | |
MUSIC: In Your Eyes by Niamh Kavanagh | 1:04:00 | 1:04:03 | |
# I see the light leading me home again... # | 1:04:03 | 1:04:07 | |
The Irish have always been tremendously enthusiastic | 1:04:07 | 1:04:10 | |
about Europe, and certainly about taking part | 1:04:10 | 1:04:13 | |
in the Eurovision Song Contest. | 1:04:13 | 1:04:15 | |
MUSIC: Rock'n'Roll Kids by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan | 1:04:15 | 1:04:18 | |
And that's been reflected in the enormous success they've always had. | 1:04:18 | 1:04:21 | |
I mean, they've won it more times than anybody else. | 1:04:21 | 1:04:24 | |
They've won it three times in succession. | 1:04:24 | 1:04:27 | |
If you listen to those songs, they're all kind of different. | 1:04:27 | 1:04:32 | |
I do think that that's perhaps why Ireland was very successful, | 1:04:32 | 1:04:37 | |
cos the writers weren't writing to win Eurovision, | 1:04:37 | 1:04:41 | |
they were writing what they felt. | 1:04:41 | 1:04:42 | |
Ireland have done it. | 1:04:42 | 1:04:44 | |
They can do this, and they've won it for the third time in succession. | 1:04:44 | 1:04:48 | |
Unprecedented. | 1:04:48 | 1:04:50 | |
In the end, it became a sort of national panic, | 1:04:50 | 1:04:54 | |
because, you know winning's great, | 1:04:54 | 1:04:56 | |
but Ireland couldn't afford to stage this thing. | 1:04:56 | 1:04:58 | |
Because, you know, in the beginning you were able to just put | 1:04:58 | 1:05:01 | |
a few cameras in a theatre, or do it in a convention centre | 1:05:01 | 1:05:05 | |
or something, but it just grew and grew, | 1:05:05 | 1:05:08 | |
as did the price of putting it on. | 1:05:08 | 1:05:11 | |
SHOES CLACK | 1:05:11 | 1:05:13 | |
I still think the greatest Irish contribution to | 1:05:17 | 1:05:20 | |
the Eurovision Song Contest was Riverdance. | 1:05:20 | 1:05:23 | |
It is still the best interval act there's ever been. | 1:05:27 | 1:05:31 | |
Just extraordinary that it came from nowhere, that Bill Whelan | 1:05:32 | 1:05:36 | |
just came up with that music, which you assume you knew. | 1:05:36 | 1:05:40 | |
The first time you heard that song you just kind of thought, | 1:05:40 | 1:05:42 | |
"Oh, this is obviously a traditional Irish song | 1:05:42 | 1:05:44 | |
"that they've just vamped up." No, he wrote it. | 1:05:44 | 1:05:46 | |
It took what was an everyday experience for Irish people | 1:05:46 | 1:05:52 | |
and turned it into something magical. | 1:05:52 | 1:05:54 | |
Like, you know, one Irish dancer, you think, well, that's boring, | 1:05:55 | 1:06:00 | |
so you think, 100 Irish dancers, that'll be 100 times more boring. | 1:06:00 | 1:06:04 | |
But instead, just... | 1:06:04 | 1:06:07 | |
It was incredible. | 1:06:07 | 1:06:08 | |
APPLAUSE | 1:06:11 | 1:06:14 | |
Good grief. That brought the folk memories out. | 1:06:14 | 1:06:18 | |
MUSIC: Love City Groove by Love City Groove | 1:06:18 | 1:06:21 | |
This is Britain's attempt to bring the Eurovision Song Contest | 1:06:21 | 1:06:24 | |
screaming into the '90s. | 1:06:24 | 1:06:26 | |
# I'm glad that I been found Always wanted you around | 1:06:26 | 1:06:29 | |
-# Keepin' me lost for words -Yeah, I know how that sounds | 1:06:29 | 1:06:31 | |
# Now I been to many places and I seen many things | 1:06:31 | 1:06:33 | |
# But nothin' that I know can ever make my heart sing like you do | 1:06:33 | 1:06:36 | |
# It's like a voodoo You know what I'm sayin'? | 1:06:36 | 1:06:38 | |
# Baby girl, I ain't playin' | 1:06:38 | 1:06:41 | |
# I'm glad that I'm the one to rock your world | 1:06:41 | 1:06:43 | |
# Cos, honey, yeah... # | 1:06:43 | 1:06:45 | |
# Ooh, ah, just a little bit | 1:06:45 | 1:06:47 | |
# Ooh, ah, a little bit more | 1:06:47 | 1:06:48 | |
# Ooh ah, just a little bit | 1:06:48 | 1:06:50 | |
# I'll give you love you can't ignore... # | 1:06:50 | 1:06:52 | |
-Ireland is the winner. -There's the winner - Eimear Quinn. | 1:06:54 | 1:07:00 | |
# I am the voice of your hunger and pain | 1:07:00 | 1:07:04 | |
# I am the voice of the future | 1:07:04 | 1:07:08 | |
# I am the voice... # | 1:07:08 | 1:07:10 | |
# Things can only get better... # | 1:07:11 | 1:07:15 | |
We have been elected as New Labour and we will govern as New Labour. | 1:07:15 | 1:07:20 | |
The Labour government, Tony Blair's government, | 1:07:20 | 1:07:23 | |
won the election | 1:07:23 | 1:07:25 | |
so there was a kind of whole thing going on in the country | 1:07:25 | 1:07:27 | |
at that point. | 1:07:27 | 1:07:29 | |
Everybody was full of optimism, thinking, well, you know, | 1:07:29 | 1:07:33 | |
"And, dammit, we're going to win the Eurovision Song Contest as well." | 1:07:33 | 1:07:37 | |
# I used to think maybe you loved me Now, baby, I'm sure... # | 1:07:37 | 1:07:43 | |
We had to consider quite carefully the move to do | 1:07:46 | 1:07:50 | |
the Eurovision Song Contest, | 1:07:50 | 1:07:52 | |
because we were aware of the obvious connotations of it | 1:07:52 | 1:07:55 | |
being the kiss of death for an artist's career. | 1:07:55 | 1:08:00 | |
And then the other comment we got from people was, "You'd better win." | 1:08:00 | 1:08:04 | |
# Hey-oh, lowly, lowly, low lowly, low-ah...# | 1:08:04 | 1:08:09 | |
I was going into it completely blindly | 1:08:09 | 1:08:12 | |
cos I'd never seen it before. | 1:08:12 | 1:08:14 | |
So I watched some of these tapes of Eurovision | 1:08:15 | 1:08:18 | |
and that was an eye-opener. | 1:08:18 | 1:08:20 | |
You know, it kind of went from juggling acts to acrobatics | 1:08:20 | 1:08:24 | |
and I thought, | 1:08:24 | 1:08:25 | |
"Well, this is just missing a couple of poodles and a clown." | 1:08:25 | 1:08:28 | |
# He's up at four and early... # | 1:08:28 | 1:08:31 | |
But when we got involved with it | 1:08:31 | 1:08:33 | |
and we saw how passionately some countries... | 1:08:33 | 1:08:36 | |
They put forward their very best music. | 1:08:36 | 1:08:39 | |
There wasn't any leverage for being offhandish about it, | 1:08:40 | 1:08:46 | |
we had to take it very seriously. | 1:08:46 | 1:08:48 | |
It was suggested that I "tone down" my American accent. | 1:08:50 | 1:08:55 | |
And I didn't know how I was going to do that unless, you know, | 1:08:56 | 1:08:59 | |
I ended up sounding like Dick Van Dyke. Can you imagine? | 1:08:59 | 1:09:04 | |
-IN A BRITISH ACCENT: -Oh, yeah, I've lived here since 1976, yeah. | 1:09:04 | 1:09:09 | |
MUSIC: Encore Une Fois by Sash! | 1:09:11 | 1:09:13 | |
It's a twister! | 1:09:13 | 1:09:15 | |
From the second you are greeted at the airport, | 1:09:15 | 1:09:18 | |
the enthusiasm was overwhelming. | 1:09:18 | 1:09:21 | |
Hello... | 1:09:21 | 1:09:23 | |
And I thought, "Oh, my God, this thing is huge." | 1:09:23 | 1:09:27 | |
I was walking into it thinking, "No pressure," and all of a sudden | 1:09:27 | 1:09:31 | |
I was thinking, "Oh, my God, there's a colossal amount of pressure." | 1:09:31 | 1:09:35 | |
MUSIC: Bara Hon Alskar Mig by Blond | 1:09:35 | 1:09:39 | |
Here we are in what is called the greenroom. | 1:09:39 | 1:09:42 | |
Don't be fooled by the fact that it is blue. | 1:09:42 | 1:09:45 | |
And we are now doing what, erm... | 1:09:45 | 1:09:48 | |
you do an awful lot of when you're involved | 1:09:48 | 1:09:50 | |
in the Eurovision Song Contest - and that is wait. | 1:09:50 | 1:09:53 | |
Look, I'm sorry, but this is my favourite bit. | 1:09:55 | 1:09:58 | |
Having sat through 23 other acts, they don't | 1:09:58 | 1:10:02 | |
so much grow on you as they sort of lose their offensiveness. | 1:10:02 | 1:10:07 | |
HE RAPS | 1:10:07 | 1:10:09 | |
And so I was starting to get really attached to a lot of them | 1:10:09 | 1:10:13 | |
and I thought, "Wow, now that's a really good Eurovision song." | 1:10:13 | 1:10:17 | |
Oh, what did the Russian one do...? | 1:10:17 | 1:10:19 | |
# Prima donna... # | 1:10:19 | 1:10:23 | |
# Prima donna... # | 1:10:23 | 1:10:25 | |
So, little by little, I was losing confidence | 1:10:25 | 1:10:27 | |
and I turned to the two backup singers and I said, | 1:10:27 | 1:10:32 | |
"Hey, how are you two so composed?" And they turned to me and they go, | 1:10:32 | 1:10:36 | |
"Beta-blockers, darling." | 1:10:36 | 1:10:37 | |
So, you know, you get out there and the music starts | 1:10:37 | 1:10:41 | |
and I'm listening for the click and I just thought, | 1:10:41 | 1:10:44 | |
"Well, now or never." | 1:10:44 | 1:10:46 | |
# Love shine a light in every corner of my heart | 1:10:46 | 1:10:51 | |
# Let the love light carry Let the love light carry... # | 1:10:51 | 1:10:57 | |
But it was, hands down, the most nerve-racking | 1:10:57 | 1:11:02 | |
and trouser-cacking 2 minutes and 58 seconds of my whole life. | 1:11:02 | 1:11:08 | |
# Love shine a light in every corner... # | 1:11:08 | 1:11:11 | |
United Kingdom... CHEERING | 1:11:11 | 1:11:13 | |
That's the first douze points. | 1:11:13 | 1:11:15 | |
-Hi, Mom and Daddy. -Hi. | 1:11:15 | 1:11:17 | |
It was just absolute delight. | 1:11:17 | 1:11:19 | |
I mean, it was a show I had always wanted to do, | 1:11:19 | 1:11:22 | |
Terry had always wanted to win it, so I mean, | 1:11:22 | 1:11:25 | |
he was ecstatic about it. | 1:11:25 | 1:11:27 | |
First time since 1981. | 1:11:27 | 1:11:30 | |
And then your life changes from there on, cos you've won | 1:11:32 | 1:11:35 | |
the Eurovision Song Contest. | 1:11:35 | 1:11:37 | |
-What a thing. -CHEERING | 1:11:37 | 1:11:40 | |
# Viva...# | 1:11:42 | 1:11:43 | |
A bitter row has erupted in Israel over the singer | 1:11:43 | 1:11:46 | |
chosen to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest, | 1:11:46 | 1:11:49 | |
which is due to be held in Birmingham. | 1:11:49 | 1:11:50 | |
She's called Dana International | 1:11:50 | 1:11:53 | |
and, until a sex change operation five years ago, Dana was a man. | 1:11:53 | 1:11:57 | |
Orthodox Jews are outraged by her nomination, | 1:11:57 | 1:12:00 | |
some fanatics have even threatened to kill her. | 1:12:00 | 1:12:02 | |
I represent liberal Israel, | 1:12:02 | 1:12:05 | |
Israel that accepts human beings, whoever they are. | 1:12:05 | 1:12:08 | |
# Viva Victoria... # | 1:12:08 | 1:12:10 | |
ULRIKA SPEAKS SWEDISH | 1:12:11 | 1:12:13 | |
Toche, toche, mahogany gas pipe. | 1:12:13 | 1:12:16 | |
# Viva la diva Viva Victoria, viva. # | 1:12:19 | 1:12:24 | |
CHEERING | 1:12:24 | 1:12:26 | |
One of the things that I had obsessed about was just trying to make | 1:12:26 | 1:12:29 | |
the show run to time and smoothly and sort out what has often | 1:12:29 | 1:12:33 | |
been a mess at the end when there's a winner and they kind of... | 1:12:33 | 1:12:36 | |
You know, it takes ages to get them to the stage, | 1:12:36 | 1:12:39 | |
so we'd rehearse that endlessly. | 1:12:39 | 1:12:41 | |
Israel have won it by seven points over the United Kingdom. | 1:12:41 | 1:12:45 | |
Dana International was declared the winner and cue the fanfare... | 1:12:45 | 1:12:49 | |
FANFARE | 1:12:49 | 1:12:51 | |
..and Dana is nowhere to be seen at all and you kind of think... | 1:12:55 | 1:12:59 | |
Come on, quickly. | 1:13:00 | 1:13:03 | |
Come on, quickly, let's go, we must go | 1:13:03 | 1:13:05 | |
or you're not going to be on. You must go. | 1:13:05 | 1:13:07 | |
She's decided to change her frock. | 1:13:07 | 1:13:10 | |
I'm standing talking to about 80 million people with | 1:13:10 | 1:13:13 | |
nothing in my head. | 1:13:13 | 1:13:15 | |
Been a long time. | 1:13:15 | 1:13:17 | |
God knows what I said, I can't remember a single thing about it | 1:13:19 | 1:13:21 | |
but my whole life flashed in front of me. | 1:13:21 | 1:13:24 | |
# Take me to your heaven... # | 1:13:24 | 1:13:26 | |
Take Me To Your Heaven is the winner | 1:13:26 | 1:13:28 | |
of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999. | 1:13:28 | 1:13:31 | |
-Mazeltov! -APPLAUSE | 1:13:31 | 1:13:35 | |
That's Dana International, of course, last year's winner. | 1:13:35 | 1:13:38 | |
There she was, pretending to fall... | 1:13:38 | 1:13:44 | |
and actually doing it. | 1:13:44 | 1:13:45 | |
Welcome, Europe. | 1:13:45 | 1:13:48 | |
CHEERING | 1:13:48 | 1:13:50 | |
What no-one can really ever get a handle on | 1:13:59 | 1:14:02 | |
until you go is the scale of it. | 1:14:02 | 1:14:06 | |
Oh, it felt almost like just a barn dance when we did it, | 1:14:07 | 1:14:11 | |
it's become such a colossal affair. | 1:14:11 | 1:14:14 | |
It's Estonia! | 1:14:14 | 1:14:16 | |
Thank you, Denmark! | 1:14:18 | 1:14:20 | |
It's a very big responsibility. It's not very easy for Estonia | 1:14:22 | 1:14:25 | |
but we will do it. | 1:14:25 | 1:14:26 | |
Without no doubt, we will do it. | 1:14:26 | 1:14:28 | |
And we will do it well. | 1:14:28 | 1:14:31 | |
Hello, Europe. | 1:14:32 | 1:14:34 | |
Since it began, Eurovision has reflected | 1:14:34 | 1:14:36 | |
the changing political map of Europe | 1:14:36 | 1:14:37 | |
-and that continues to this day. -Latvia. | 1:14:37 | 1:14:40 | |
The expansion of the contest eastward projected new energies | 1:14:40 | 1:14:43 | |
but also saw the UK's fortunes in Eurovision really changing. | 1:14:43 | 1:14:47 | |
MUSIC: Cry Baby by Jemini | 1:14:47 | 1:14:50 | |
Saddam Hussein is not cooperating with the inspectors | 1:14:50 | 1:14:52 | |
and therefore is in breach of the UN resolution. | 1:14:52 | 1:14:55 | |
Jemini came last and gained the dubious accolade of being | 1:15:00 | 1:15:04 | |
-the worst UK result ever. -What about the political side of this? | 1:15:04 | 1:15:08 | |
A lot of people are saying that this was about the Iraq war. | 1:15:08 | 1:15:10 | |
I mean, we were told that there was some politics in Eurovision | 1:15:10 | 1:15:14 | |
but hopefully, you know, we were hoping that we would go there, | 1:15:14 | 1:15:17 | |
give it our best shot, which we did. | 1:15:17 | 1:15:19 | |
# Love, love's not enough | 1:15:19 | 1:15:22 | |
# I need your trust | 1:15:22 | 1:15:23 | |
# But you don't try... # | 1:15:23 | 1:15:25 | |
I think, probably when we started to not do so well | 1:15:25 | 1:15:29 | |
was when, as a country, we thought, "Well, actually, | 1:15:29 | 1:15:31 | |
"if we don't take it seriously then we won't be disappointed." | 1:15:31 | 1:15:34 | |
# Bye-bye, baby You lied to me, baby... # | 1:15:34 | 1:15:38 | |
As a nation, I think, musically, you know, we are | 1:15:38 | 1:15:40 | |
one of the finest in the world and I think | 1:15:40 | 1:15:43 | |
to not represent our country with that at the heart of what | 1:15:43 | 1:15:47 | |
we're doing, I think it's a bit shameful, to be honest. | 1:15:47 | 1:15:50 | |
I think, certainly, there is some resentment in Europe towards the UK. | 1:15:50 | 1:15:53 | |
Certainly amongst the national broadcasters. | 1:15:53 | 1:15:56 | |
They make a lot of effort, they put in their biggest stars | 1:15:56 | 1:15:59 | |
and yet they see, perhaps, | 1:15:59 | 1:16:00 | |
the UK entering novelty acts or songs that maybe don't reflect | 1:16:00 | 1:16:03 | |
the wider UK charts and I think there is perhaps a little bit of suspicion | 1:16:03 | 1:16:08 | |
or frustration at the fact that we're not entering our best. | 1:16:08 | 1:16:11 | |
Boots, leather, whips - what a winning combination. | 1:16:12 | 1:16:18 | |
MUSIC: Wild Dances by Ruslana | 1:16:18 | 1:16:21 | |
Ukraine. | 1:16:21 | 1:16:22 | |
# You're my lover | 1:16:24 | 1:16:26 | |
# Undercover | 1:16:26 | 1:16:28 | |
# You're my secret passion I have no other... # | 1:16:28 | 1:16:32 | |
If you have a whole evening of songs, | 1:16:32 | 1:16:34 | |
let's say you have 25 songs, | 1:16:34 | 1:16:36 | |
and you have to decide what to vote for, you need what I would call | 1:16:36 | 1:16:39 | |
a little anchor, something that you can remember it for. | 1:16:39 | 1:16:43 | |
# My number one... # | 1:16:43 | 1:16:45 | |
It's about how you can notch up any performance, | 1:16:45 | 1:16:48 | |
whether it be a costume or a trick. | 1:16:48 | 1:16:51 | |
You remember the guy with the funny hat | 1:16:51 | 1:16:55 | |
or the lady in the beautiful dress or... | 1:16:55 | 1:16:57 | |
those guys with a monster mask on. | 1:16:57 | 1:17:00 | |
MUSIC: Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi | 1:17:00 | 1:17:04 | |
I despaired of Eurovision that year. | 1:17:04 | 1:17:07 | |
# The true believers | 1:17:07 | 1:17:09 | |
# Thou shall be saved | 1:17:09 | 1:17:11 | |
# Brothers and sisters Keep strong in the faith... # | 1:17:11 | 1:17:14 | |
I thought that was a turning point | 1:17:14 | 1:17:17 | |
and I thought Eurovision was going in the wrong direction. | 1:17:17 | 1:17:19 | |
Congratulations. | 1:17:19 | 1:17:21 | |
I think if you're trying to win it | 1:17:21 | 1:17:23 | |
then you're going to do daft things, right? | 1:17:23 | 1:17:25 | |
Cos it's about catching people's attentions | 1:17:25 | 1:17:27 | |
for perhaps the wrong reasons. | 1:17:27 | 1:17:29 | |
MUSIC: Dancing Lasha Tumbai by Verka Serduchka | 1:17:29 | 1:17:32 | |
All right, so you're going to have a jet pack or you're going to go | 1:17:32 | 1:17:36 | |
ice-skating or, you know, you're going to have | 1:17:36 | 1:17:38 | |
sharks or whatever it is, | 1:17:38 | 1:17:39 | |
you're going to do something which says, "Look at us. | 1:17:39 | 1:17:42 | |
"We're going to make the biggest noise." | 1:17:42 | 1:17:44 | |
That's if you want to win it, | 1:17:44 | 1:17:47 | |
but I'm not sure that the winning of it is the point of it. | 1:17:47 | 1:17:50 | |
It's over. And I can't say | 1:17:50 | 1:17:53 | |
that we didn't predict it, this was going to be... | 1:17:53 | 1:17:56 | |
Russia were going to be | 1:17:56 | 1:17:57 | |
the political winners from the beginning. | 1:17:57 | 1:17:59 | |
There'd always been block voting, | 1:17:59 | 1:18:01 | |
the Scandinavians had always | 1:18:01 | 1:18:02 | |
voted for each other, the Greeks had always | 1:18:02 | 1:18:04 | |
voted for Cyprus, Cyprus had always voted for the Greeks. | 1:18:04 | 1:18:07 | |
Nobody had voted for the United Kingdom. | 1:18:07 | 1:18:09 | |
I think it's tremendously disappointing. | 1:18:11 | 1:18:13 | |
From the point of view of the United Kingdom, we've come joint last. | 1:18:13 | 1:18:17 | |
Some really ridiculous songs and you have to say...that this is | 1:18:17 | 1:18:21 | |
no longer a music contest. | 1:18:21 | 1:18:24 | |
Maria... | 1:18:24 | 1:18:26 | |
What I do think is a big factor is the displaced voting factor, | 1:18:26 | 1:18:30 | |
so I'm British, | 1:18:30 | 1:18:32 | |
if I'm watching the show in the UK, I cannot vote for the UK entry. | 1:18:32 | 1:18:36 | |
If I were to happen to be in Spain on the night of the show, | 1:18:36 | 1:18:39 | |
I could vote for the UK entry in Spain. | 1:18:39 | 1:18:42 | |
So countries whose populations are spread into other | 1:18:42 | 1:18:47 | |
countries in bigger numbers are likely, just naturally, | 1:18:47 | 1:18:51 | |
to be able to vote for their own country elsewhere. | 1:18:51 | 1:18:55 | |
MUSIC: Believe by Dima Bilan | 1:18:55 | 1:18:57 | |
Yes, they're voting for their neighbours, but they're also | 1:18:57 | 1:19:00 | |
voting for a song that's been played to death on their radio. | 1:19:00 | 1:19:04 | |
They probably know the person who's singing it | 1:19:06 | 1:19:08 | |
because they're a star in their country, | 1:19:08 | 1:19:11 | |
so it's not as simple as, "We always vote for this country." | 1:19:11 | 1:19:15 | |
That does go on, but I think, normally, it's about... You vote | 1:19:15 | 1:19:19 | |
for songs that you're familiar with because, you know, the more | 1:19:19 | 1:19:23 | |
you hear any song, the more you like it until you grow to loathe it. | 1:19:23 | 1:19:27 | |
# Can't stop me if I just believe | 1:19:27 | 1:19:33 | |
# And we believe in | 1:19:33 | 1:19:35 | |
# You. # | 1:19:35 | 1:19:40 | |
MUSIC: Fairytale by Alexander Ryback | 1:19:40 | 1:19:43 | |
When I was asked, obviously I wanted to do it, but it's scary, | 1:19:43 | 1:19:49 | |
because, you know, Sir Terry had done it for ever. | 1:19:49 | 1:19:53 | |
I was getting flights, off we went to Moscow, it's all, "Oh, isn't | 1:19:55 | 1:19:58 | |
"this exciting?" And it was just as the opening credits went, | 1:19:58 | 1:20:02 | |
it dawned on me, | 1:20:02 | 1:20:04 | |
"Oh, this is going to be coming out of someone's telly in a minute." | 1:20:04 | 1:20:08 | |
Good evening and welcome to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. | 1:20:08 | 1:20:13 | |
And you don't want to mess it up and there's no script, | 1:20:13 | 1:20:16 | |
so you are just talking. | 1:20:16 | 1:20:18 | |
I'm Graham Norton. | 1:20:18 | 1:20:20 | |
I miss Terry, too. I'm sorry. | 1:20:20 | 1:20:23 | |
And really, I think that first year | 1:20:23 | 1:20:25 | |
I was doing a Terry Wogan impression. | 1:20:25 | 1:20:26 | |
I was like, "What would Terry say?" | 1:20:26 | 1:20:28 | |
SHE HOLDS A HIGH-PITCHED NOTE | 1:20:28 | 1:20:31 | |
It's all right, you can let the dog back into the living room, | 1:20:31 | 1:20:35 | |
it's all over. | 1:20:35 | 1:20:37 | |
You see it on television, you see there's 15,000 people | 1:20:37 | 1:20:40 | |
in the stadium and the set is enormous and everything. | 1:20:40 | 1:20:43 | |
But what you don't see is all the sneaky things, | 1:20:43 | 1:20:46 | |
like someone will be doing an amazing vocal... | 1:20:46 | 1:20:49 | |
# You've got to live your life... # | 1:20:49 | 1:20:50 | |
You have to sing live but, of course, nothing's stopping you | 1:20:50 | 1:20:54 | |
from miming to a backing singer and, if you look, you can see them. | 1:20:54 | 1:20:58 | |
# Ooh, ahh... # | 1:20:58 | 1:21:02 | |
And that's... Well, it's not cheating, but it's cheating. | 1:21:02 | 1:21:06 | |
MUSIC: Fairytale by Alexander Ryback | 1:21:06 | 1:21:09 | |
CHEERING | 1:21:14 | 1:21:18 | |
Song number 12 for the United Kingdom. | 1:21:20 | 1:21:23 | |
Good luck to Josh Dubovie. | 1:21:23 | 1:21:26 | |
# I don't know about you, but | 1:21:28 | 1:21:30 | |
# That sounds good to me | 1:21:30 | 1:21:34 | |
# Whoa... # | 1:21:34 | 1:21:36 | |
Yes, I'm sure, I'm sure the UK could win again. | 1:21:36 | 1:21:39 | |
Every year I feel pity for the UK because you have | 1:21:39 | 1:21:42 | |
so much good pop music. | 1:21:42 | 1:21:44 | |
# I can, I will... # | 1:21:44 | 1:21:48 | |
I think it's extraordinary that the UK has not done better. | 1:21:48 | 1:21:52 | |
If One Direction decided to do Eurovision or if Chris Martin | 1:21:53 | 1:21:57 | |
from Coldplay thought it would be a laugh to do | 1:21:57 | 1:22:00 | |
Eurovision - not just a laugh, actually, I could see Chris | 1:22:00 | 1:22:02 | |
doing it and taking it quite seriously - | 1:22:02 | 1:22:05 | |
then the UK could win it very easily. | 1:22:05 | 1:22:07 | |
# So graceful and pure a smile bathed in light | 1:22:07 | 1:22:12 | |
# No matter... # | 1:22:12 | 1:22:14 | |
I think to reprezent, in the modern sense of the word, with a Z, | 1:22:14 | 1:22:18 | |
you know, it's an important thing. | 1:22:18 | 1:22:21 | |
# That's all fine if that's how you want it to be... # | 1:22:21 | 1:22:26 | |
Why don't we just turn up with something beautiful and amazing | 1:22:26 | 1:22:29 | |
and then if we win or we don't win, you know, | 1:22:29 | 1:22:32 | |
that doesn't matter, that's not what we're there for, | 1:22:32 | 1:22:34 | |
we're there to say, "This is what we can do." | 1:22:34 | 1:22:37 | |
# It's a miracle... # | 1:22:37 | 1:22:42 | |
Copenhagen last year was extraordinary. | 1:22:42 | 1:22:45 | |
They had chosen a massive, derelict shipyard on an island. | 1:22:45 | 1:22:50 | |
Inside it, they built the arena seating, a lighting grid, | 1:22:50 | 1:22:54 | |
they made the whole back wall out of LED-screen material. | 1:22:54 | 1:22:59 | |
# Ooh... # | 1:22:59 | 1:23:02 | |
And all of this was controlled by computer software so that | 1:23:02 | 1:23:05 | |
when a song was running, the cues for the screens, the lights, | 1:23:05 | 1:23:10 | |
the visual effects and even the cutting of the cameras were | 1:23:10 | 1:23:13 | |
all controlled off this software system and it ran like clockwork. | 1:23:13 | 1:23:18 | |
They did a really, really good job. | 1:23:18 | 1:23:21 | |
MUSIC: Rise Like A Phoenix by Conchita Wurst | 1:23:21 | 1:23:23 | |
I was standing on the stage and I was fighting my tears | 1:23:25 | 1:23:28 | |
because I always wanted to be there. | 1:23:28 | 1:23:30 | |
# Waking in the rubble | 1:23:30 | 1:23:33 | |
# Walking over glass... # | 1:23:33 | 1:23:36 | |
And I thought, "I will do this for myself, | 1:23:36 | 1:23:38 | |
"I don't care about anyone here. | 1:23:38 | 1:23:40 | |
"I will sing and I will entertain myself | 1:23:40 | 1:23:42 | |
"and if they think it's ridiculous, so what? | 1:23:42 | 1:23:44 | |
"I'll have a great time." | 1:23:44 | 1:23:46 | |
# You wouldn't know me at all | 1:23:46 | 1:23:50 | |
# Today... # | 1:23:50 | 1:23:51 | |
As far as Austria are concerned, | 1:23:51 | 1:23:53 | |
what an amazing thing to do in an international arena. | 1:23:53 | 1:23:56 | |
# Rise like a phoenix | 1:23:56 | 1:24:00 | |
# Out of the ashes... # | 1:24:00 | 1:24:01 | |
To put someone forward to say, "This is our person | 1:24:01 | 1:24:04 | |
"that you need to take seriously." | 1:24:04 | 1:24:06 | |
People didn't really know who or what Conchita was. | 1:24:06 | 1:24:10 | |
Was Conchita a woman? Was Conchita transgender? | 1:24:10 | 1:24:13 | |
Was Conchita a drag queen? | 1:24:13 | 1:24:15 | |
Conchita is a drag queen with a beard - nothing more, nothing less. | 1:24:15 | 1:24:18 | |
# Rise like a phoenix | 1:24:18 | 1:24:21 | |
# But you're my flame... # | 1:24:21 | 1:24:25 | |
some broadcasters said, "OK, well, we're not going to show that song. | 1:24:25 | 1:24:28 | |
"We're going to opt out for those two and a half minutes." | 1:24:28 | 1:24:34 | |
And hats off to the EBU, they said, "No, no. | 1:24:34 | 1:24:39 | |
"You either show the whole thing or you don't show it at all." | 1:24:39 | 1:24:43 | |
And, in the end, everyone caved. | 1:24:43 | 1:24:46 | |
# Retribution... # | 1:24:46 | 1:24:48 | |
They have their own opinion and that's fine with me. | 1:24:48 | 1:24:50 | |
If they don't like it, I'm totally cool with that. | 1:24:50 | 1:24:53 | |
They just have to respect that I'm here, like, we have | 1:24:53 | 1:24:56 | |
to respect one and each other. | 1:24:56 | 1:24:58 | |
# Rise like a phoenix | 1:24:58 | 1:25:01 | |
# But you're my... | 1:25:01 | 1:25:04 | |
# Flame. # | 1:25:04 | 1:25:12 | |
CHEERING | 1:25:14 | 1:25:16 | |
None of us expected Conchita to win. | 1:25:16 | 1:25:18 | |
You know, we all said to each other beforehand, | 1:25:18 | 1:25:21 | |
"Wouldn't it be great if...? | 1:25:21 | 1:25:22 | |
"But, of course, that's not going to happen." | 1:25:22 | 1:25:24 | |
Because all those Eastern European countries | 1:25:24 | 1:25:28 | |
won't vote for, you know, the bearded drag-lady. | 1:25:28 | 1:25:31 | |
But, of course, happily, we were wrong. | 1:25:31 | 1:25:34 | |
We have done the math, it's no secret any more. | 1:25:34 | 1:25:38 | |
We are ready to announce the winner. | 1:25:38 | 1:25:41 | |
The winner is... | 1:25:41 | 1:25:42 | |
Austria! | 1:25:42 | 1:25:43 | |
I just feel so honoured that I'm the person who was | 1:25:43 | 1:25:46 | |
standing in the centre of attention. | 1:25:46 | 1:25:49 | |
You know, cos I love to be in the centre of attention. But, erm... | 1:25:49 | 1:25:52 | |
Especially when it comes to that. | 1:25:52 | 1:25:54 | |
Of course, for me, it was very important not just to stand | 1:25:54 | 1:25:57 | |
and sing there but also to take this opportunity to say something. | 1:25:57 | 1:26:02 | |
This night is dedicated to everyone | 1:26:02 | 1:26:06 | |
who believes in a future of peace and freedom. | 1:26:06 | 1:26:10 | |
CHEERING | 1:26:10 | 1:26:13 | |
You know who you are. | 1:26:15 | 1:26:16 | |
We are unity and we are unstoppable. | 1:26:16 | 1:26:21 | |
Conchita's victory was hugely symbolic. | 1:26:23 | 1:26:25 | |
The public, maybe not the juries, but the public voted for Conchita. | 1:26:25 | 1:26:29 | |
We were crying, you know, we were crying. | 1:26:29 | 1:26:31 | |
I know it sounds ridiculous, but it just... | 1:26:31 | 1:26:36 | |
It felt important. | 1:26:36 | 1:26:37 | |
It just felt that people, the people who live in places, | 1:26:37 | 1:26:40 | |
the people who go to the shops | 1:26:40 | 1:26:43 | |
and the people who just live their lives, had spoken | 1:26:43 | 1:26:47 | |
and they were nicer people and more tolerant people | 1:26:47 | 1:26:51 | |
than their governments let us think. | 1:26:51 | 1:26:54 | |
CHEERING | 1:26:54 | 1:26:57 | |
Even though we've managed a great deal of integration in Europe, | 1:27:01 | 1:27:07 | |
especially since the Second World War, we're still not there yet. | 1:27:07 | 1:27:12 | |
There are still a lot of differences between countries, | 1:27:12 | 1:27:15 | |
we still don't fully grasp the depth of all our cultures | 1:27:15 | 1:27:19 | |
and we have to keep evolving. I think Europe as a project is never | 1:27:19 | 1:27:24 | |
ready, just like the Eurovision song Contest as a project is never ready. | 1:27:24 | 1:27:27 | |
It's the only pan-European cultural event | 1:27:27 | 1:27:32 | |
and it brings nations together like no other event. | 1:27:32 | 1:27:35 | |
We laugh, we sing, we party. | 1:27:35 | 1:27:38 | |
Eurovision will always be unique, because you're voting for countries | 1:27:38 | 1:27:44 | |
and that's what gives it... | 1:27:44 | 1:27:46 | |
I mean, "gravitas" is a big word, | 1:27:46 | 1:27:48 | |
but that is kind of what gives it a certain level of seriousness. | 1:27:48 | 1:27:51 | |
I think anything that brings people together, | 1:27:51 | 1:27:55 | |
we shouldn't knock it, because there's so much that divides. | 1:27:55 | 1:27:58 | |
Nowadays, you know, where we have to struggle with | 1:27:58 | 1:28:01 | |
so many difficult things that happen | 1:28:01 | 1:28:04 | |
all around the world, it's good to don't forget to celebrate life. | 1:28:04 | 1:28:10 | |
I hope people understood that I always looked upon it with | 1:28:10 | 1:28:14 | |
a kindly eye, and long may it last. | 1:28:14 | 1:28:17 | |
That was great, thank you very much. Smashing, thank you. | 1:28:24 | 1:28:28 | |
MUSIC: Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son by France Gall | 1:28:28 | 1:28:31 |