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For Eurovision Song Contest Fans:
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A reminder that this coming Saturday is Eurovision day, even if the actual contest itself is cancelled this year.
It all kicks off on Friday evening actually, with a repeat of 'Eurovision at 60' (from 2015) on BBC4:
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Then, as a warm-up for the main event on Saturday evening, there's 'Eurovision: Come Together' on BBC1 at 1825:
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That's followed by the contest itself but without any actual contest! (i.e. all this year's songs are there but just without any voting):
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If you've still not had your full fix of Eurovision on Saturday, then switch over to BBC2 at 2200 for 'The A to Z of Eurovision':
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Don't turn off when it ends though, or you'll miss the repeat of a TOTP2 Eurovision Special:
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Yippee!
It all kicks off on Friday evening actually, with a repeat of 'Eurovision at 60' (from 2015) on BBC4:
https:/
Then, as a warm-up for the main event on Saturday evening, there's 'Eurovision: Come Together' on BBC1 at 1825:
https:/
That's followed by the contest itself but without any actual contest! (i.e. all this year's songs are there but just without any voting):
https:/
If you've still not had your full fix of Eurovision on Saturday, then switch over to BBC2 at 2200 for 'The A to Z of Eurovision':
https:/
Don't turn off when it ends though, or you'll miss the repeat of a TOTP2 Eurovision Special:
https:/
Yippee!
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Ah, the good old days, Jno, when the competition really was about the songs and not about the staging, the special effects, the personalities of the singers or whatever!
"Non ho l'età" remains a great song and, yes, I'm old enough to remember it too! (I'd have been a month short of my 11th birthday when it won).
The pop revolution of the 1960s didn't really seem to infiltrate the Eurovision Song Contest until the following year, when Luxembourg won with this somewhat less than memorable number:
"Non ho l'età" remains a great song and, yes, I'm old enough to remember it too! (I'd have been a month short of my 11th birthday when it won).
The pop revolution of the 1960s didn't really seem to infiltrate the Eurovision Song Contest until the following year, when Luxembourg won with this somewhat less than memorable number:
I remember when Sandie Shaw was chosen she had about five songs to pick from, so she sang one on the Rolf Harris Show each week. She made a mess of Puppet on a String, got off on the wrong beat and had to stop after a couple of bars and start over again. (The perils of live broadcasting perhaps - at any rate, if they had the ability to edit out the false start, they didn't.) Didn't do her any harm - I think there was some sort of public vote and it was the one she took to the contest.
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