Eurovision returned to Switzerland after a break of 33 years when Lausanne hosted the show on May 6, 1989. The opening was the longest ever and it took forever before Celine Dion took the stage to mime a part of her winning entry the year before and then belting out her very first single in English. She really put the Berlitz language school into good use! The big favourites were Israel and France, both sporting a 12-year-old singer. Luckily they propably ate each other votes and neither of them won, and caused a new rule: artists must be 16 years old. Italy send two big names, Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali. Anna declared she wanted to win Sanremo only to be able to do Eurovision! Unfortunately they ended up only on shared 9th place, scoring next to nothing in the early part of the voting. Switzerland sung for the only time ever in the country's fourth official language: retoromanisch. Austria and Germany shared the songwriters when Dieter "Modern Talking" Bohlen wrote both of them. The German entry was sung by Nino De Angelo who had scored big hits all over Europe but it didn't help him much. Finland scored its best placing since 1973 and till 2006. Yogoslavia performed last and no one paid any attention to them in rehearsals. The press left instead of following them so their win was a huge surprise and when it also failed to sell records it looked once again that Eurovision was nearing its death...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70sPPkdPyUk
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