A big part of the Eurovision experience are the different parties. Belarus hosted a huge party on Thursday night that everybody still seems to be talking about. Last night there were several but the Turkish one seem to have attracted the most attention. The Icelandic garden party is coming up as well as the joint Greek-Cypriot one that is a hit every year. But those are all unofficial promotional parties while tomorrow is the mother of all parties: the official opening party where all the singers mix with the journalists and fans, and all delegations get together to have a good time. Moscow is making things big and has invited not only the first ever Eurovision winner,
Lys Assia back in 1956 to sing her winning entry
Refrain along with last year's winner
Dima Bilan, 2007 winner
Marija Serifovic from Serbia, 2004 winner
Ruslana from Ukraine, 1991 winner
Carola from Sweden. On top of that the German 1979 entrant
Dschingis Khan! Or rather what's left of it. And I'm sure there will be also many surprises considering most Russian and Belarussian Eurovision artists are in town.... Meanwhile listen to Dschingis Khan's follow up to their Eurovision entry, also penned by Ralph Siegel, Moskau. I think it is one of the best pop songs ever recorded! Absolutely brilliant!
http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQAKRw6mToA and here a bit more recent performance of the same http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMvcZIrleeE
A big part of the Eurovision experience are the different parties. Belarus hosted a huge party on Thursday night that everybody still seems to be talking about. Last night there were several but the Turkish one seem to have attracted the most attention. The Icelandic garden party is coming up as well as the joint Greek-Cypriot one that is a hit every year. But those are all unofficial promotional parties while tomorrow is the mother of all parties: the official opening party where all the singers mix with the journalists and fans, and all delegations get together to have a good time. Moscow is making things big and has invited not only the first ever Eurovision winner, Lys Assia back in 1956 to sing her winning entry Refrain along with last year's winner Dima Bilan, 2007 winner Marija Serifovic from Serbia, 2004 winner Ruslana from Ukraine, 1991 winner Carola from Sweden. On top of that the German 1979 entrant Dschingis Khan! Or rather what's left of it. And I'm sure there will be also many surprises considering most Russian and Belarussian Eurovision artists are in town.... Meanwhile listen to Dschingis Khan's follow up to their Eurovision entry, also penned by Ralph Siegel, Moskau. I think it is one of the best pop songs ever recorded! Absolutely brilliant!
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