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Hellooooooooooo Luxembourg!!!
(I've always wanted to say that).
(I've always wanted to say that).
JackDark said:Thanks. Didn't know we had someone from Luxenbourg on here! Question for you ...
Are you a buck toothed girl, and have you ever received any frightening verse from a bequiffed mancunian?
alytha said:JackDark said:Thanks. Didn't know we had someone from Luxenbourg on here! Question for you ...
Are you a buck toothed girl, and have you ever received any frightening verse from a bequiffed mancunian?
Er...slightly...and I know quite a few mancunians..now I'm scared...
alytha said::lol:
Is there any kind of background story to that song?
JackDark said:alytha said::lol:
Is there any kind of background story to that song?
Not really. It's a typical Morrissey lyric about disenfranchised youth.
** Quite possibly first and last time that the bard of Stretford will be mentioned on the Fortean Times site. ** :lol:
So the next time Britain loses, it's not because the song was crap. Its obviously because, They are all out to get us!http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2278069,00.html
40 years on, congratulations may be in order
Sir Cliff demands trophy after film claims Franco plot denied him Eurovision win
Sam Jones and Paul Lewis. Tuesday May 6, 2008. The Guardian
For years, Sir Cliff Richard has endured jibes about almost everything: his music; his faith, his relationships. Even his competitively-priced Portuguese wines. But while the singer has stoically turned the other cheek one wound has festered quietly for four decades - coming second in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest.
That stain on his career, however, may yet be removed. An investigation in Spain has uncovered skullduggery which, it says, shows the dictator Francisco Franco had the vote rigged, ensuring that the Briton, then a 27-year-old starlet, never had a chance of winning with his song, Congratulations.
Yesterday, Sir Cliff said he was pleased at the prospect of being declared the victor. "I've lived with this number two thing for so many years, it would be wonderful if someone official from the contest turned around and said: 'Cliff, you won that darn thing after all,'" he told the Guardian.
Cause for hope has come in the form of a new Spanish documentary.
According to Montse Fernandez Vila, the director of the film called 1968: I lived the Spanish May, Franco was determined to claim Eurovision glory for his own country. The investigation, which is due to be broadcast shortly, details how El Generalísimo was so keen to improve Spain's international image that he sent corrupt TV executives across Europe to buy goodwill in the run-up to the contest.
Their mission was successful and Congratulations was beaten to the top spot by the Spanish singer Massiel with La La La.
"[Massiel's win] was fixed," Vila, told the Spanish media news website vertele.com. "It's in the public domain that Televisión Española executives travelled around Europe buying series that would never be broadcast and signing concert contracts with odd, unknown groups and singers. These contracts were translated into votes."
She added: "It was these bought votes that won Eurovision for Massiel. The regime was well aware of the need to improve its image overseas ... When you look at all the parties they organised and how Massiel was transformed into a national heroine, you realise it was rather over the top for a singing competition. It was all intended to boost the regime."
Sir Cliff, who is touring Germany, sounded jubilant at the revelations. "If, like they say, they believe there is evidence that it was I that was the winner, there won't be a happier person on the planet," he said, recalling that fateful evening at the Royal Albert Hall.
"It's never good to lose, never good to feel a loser. When I went on that night I said to the band: 'Look guys, there will be 400 million people watching, it will be a massive plug for our song.' And it was. I think we sold a million singles. But we really wanted to win."
Being crowned victor would dovetail nicely with his British tour later this year, he said. Although he conceded that opening an official investigation into the rigged vote "might not be worth the trouble", the belated verdict would mean a lot to him.
"I'd be quite happy to be able to say I won Eurovision '68. It's an impressive date in the calendar these days."
Vindication could, however, still be some way off. Jamie McLoughlin, who runs the Eurovision website Whoops Dragovic, has his doubts over the documentary's claims.
"La La La was controversial from the start as it was originally to be performed in Catalan, but Franco wouldn't allow it, so the woman who eventually sang it was only brought in at the last minute," he said.
"The more obvious answer for the landslide of votes from Germany, the penultimate country to vote for Spain, which tipped the result Massiel's way is - rather boringly - she went on a really popular German TV show the week before the contest to perform her song.
"Still, if it means Blighty can somehow get win number six from all this digging, I certainly won't complain."
Sir Cliff was similarly philosophical yesterday. He clearly doesn't hold Massiel accountable for the vote 40 years ago; and if the adjudication is reversed, he has promised to send her a signed copy of Congratulations
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The European Presidency is not as important.rynner said:Luckily, the Germans are ganging up on Tony Blair, so he won't win either!
Oh, that's not Eurovision, is it?
"It's never good to lose, never good to feel a loser. When I went on that night I said to the band: 'Look guys, there will be 400 million people watching, it will be a massive plug for our song.' And it was. I think we sold a million singles. But we really wanted to win."
It's no more unbelievable than nobody voting for Gemini because of the Iraq conflict
Israel has been in Eurovision for a few years now, if they can get in, then Azerbaijan's a shoo in.H_James said:isn't including azerbaijan in europe stretching it a bit?
EDIT: azerbaijan's entry is rocking though, and I hope they win.
DeeDeeTee said:It's no more unbelievable than nobody voting for Gemini because of the Iraq conflict
The simpler reason that Gemini didn't get a vote is that the girl couldn't sing live for toffee. The off-tune warblings were so bad that I think Wogan was so embarrased he had to invent another reason for our nul pointer, hence blaming the Iraq war .
Here's the whole sorry performance if you don't believe me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYaeuUUAn4A