EUROVISION IN MEMORIAM 2024

Another year has passed and sadly more Eurovision song contest veterans and winners have joined the heavenly band. Below are some of the artists, song writers, conductors of Eurovision that we lost this year.

Francois Hardy (1944-2024) - L'amour s'en va (Monaco 1963)

Dickie Rock (1936-2024) - Come back to stay (Ireland 1966)

Guy Bonnet (1945-2024) - Marie-Blanche (France 1970), Vivre (France 1983),

writer for La Source (France 1968)

Joe Cujatar (1941-2024) - L'imħabba (Malta 1972)

Humbrey Campbell (1958-2024) - Wijs me de weg (Netherlands 1992)

Marjorie (1965-2024) - participated in the Finnish national selection 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994

Hans Blum (1928-2024) -writer of German entries 1967, 1969, 1986

Martin Lee of Brotherhood of Men (1946-2024) - Save your kisses for me (UK 1976)

Colin Gibb (1953-2024) of Black Lace - Mary Ann fame (UK 1979)

Emre Tukur of Klips ve Onlar and Pan fame (Turkey 1986, 1989)

Shmulik Bilu of Milk & Honey (1952-31.12.2023) - Hallelujah (Israel 1979)

Ekaterina Shklyaeva of Burnovskiye Babushki (1937-2024) - Party for everybody (Russia 2012)

Göran Fristop of Nova (1048-2024) - You're summer (Sweden 1973)

Harry van Hoof (1943-2024) - 15 times the Dutch conductor at Eurovision (1972-1979, 1986, 1988-1990, 1992-1994)

Maki Kolehmainen (1966-2024) - writer for Addicted to you (Finland 2002), participant with Aika (1996, 2002, runner up)) and writer for eight additional national final songs like Kosketa mua)

Last minute addition to the list is sadly Selami Karaibrahimgil (1944-2024)of Modern Folk Trio fame (Turkey 1981)

Another last minute addition: Joe Grech (1934-2024) died yesterday December 30, 2024. He was the Malta's debut Eurovision artist back in 1971.

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Krista Siegfrids is delivering nice pop tunes one after another and this one is particularly catchy and soon you will be singing along..... Hopefully her Melodifestivalen entry will be equally good!

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Today's funniest Eurovision related story comes from Belarus. Some sources claim Ivan wants to perform on stage naked and with live wolf or wolves. It surely would be a first on Eurovision stage! We have seen some forgotten underwear over the years, and some cardbox animals though..... Is it time to take things a bit further? No, according the rules live animals are not allowed, and Eurovision being a family show nudity won't do either. (It seems to be ok to be half naked if you are a dancer though..... )

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Tim Schou has a pretty good solo career going since he left his friends in London. He's travelling the world and relesing songs and videos. The latest one is a great track and comes with a steamy video that kinda takes away from the song really. But who's complaining. If you got it, flaunt it. Enjoy the video below. This post coming after the other Dane, Rasmus Seebach as wishlist for Eurovision. To think about it, Tim would do nicely, too. Maybe he should give it another go?

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Regina Lund's new video Jag är osynlig was censored by Youtube only minutes after it had been uploaded. In the video she was playing a female Jesus who gets crusified in the end. "I was shocked!" she says. "There's nothing more naked in it as in every church! It's ok to have naked man hanging on the wall but my nakedness is too much on internet? ". Oh well, no comment. She's prepairing a new album Dare Regina Lund and we of course remember her from her Melodifestivalen 2007 adventure with Rainbow star .

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Eurovision song contest 2005 winner Helena Paparizou has been enjoying Top-5 hits every year since 2003 with the exception of 2010 and 2014, this latest one being already her 27th! And Haide is charting also in Bulgaria and Finland, of all places. The catchiness of her hits has changed less over the years than her face.... Here's the English version , below the Greek version.

Russia recycles the video

Here is the video for Alexey's previous hit Бам Бам! and here is the video for his Eurovision 2011 entry Get you as Alex Sparrow as he likes to be called now abraod. Looks like he potreys the new rich Russia well.... The only problem is that he can't play the bad part convincingly not even a second. And did I say the song is crap? And of course as he is a Russian star he must have nude fotos of him flotaing around internet trying to be sexy and he fails there, too, big time. If you are not bad nor sexy you shouldn't push it. Maybe he should stick to singing jolly little numbers like the Kalinka rip off instead....

JEDWARD GETS NAKED FOR THE FANS

Well, almost. The boys celebrated their 650.000th follower on Twitter by being photographed fresh from shower as promised. It's not the first time they drop their clothes as you see here . Meanwhile their second album is nearly here and the title track Young love is hitting the charts....

Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

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