Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Senhit just took a rather easy win this blogger's demoscopic jury's Eurovision 2021 ranking and as we enter May she has come to an end in her #freakytriptorotterdam Eurovision covers series, too.  The last part takes her to Spain 1990 and some gypsy realness with Azucar Moreno's rather legendary Bandido! While at it enjoy also the previous steps on her trip here: Roi Golden boy / toy ******* is free Waterloo Amar pelois dos Rise like a phoenix Congratulations Ding-a-dong Everyway that I can Cheesecake

Senhit's #freakytriptoRotterdam reaches already its sixth stop, this time with Salvador Sobral's Amar pelos dois featuring words of wisdom from Michael Jackson, black Madonna handing over black baby Jesus to gay couple, tenor Jordi Galán and Luca Tommassini's visual magic and choreography and of course merry Christmas wishes. Enjoy! Check out the previous ones below: Rise like a phoenix Congratulations Ding-A-Dong Everyway that I can Cheesecake

Senhit's #freakytriptoRotterdam continues also this month, this time with a homage to late Freddie Mercury in form of Conchita Wurst's winning entry in 2014, Rise like a Phoenix . Moustache and all.  Check out the previous ones below: Congratulations Ding-a-dong Everyway that I can Cheesecake

Another month has passed by and Senhit has delivered another episode in her #FreakytriptoRotterdam. This time it's Cliff Richard's Congratulations, the UK's runner up in Eurovision song contest 1968 and the video plays hommage to Fellini and David Bowie among others  Check out also Ding a dong Everyway that I can Cheesecake

Royal Albert Hall in London hosted the 13th Eurovision song contest on April 6, 1968. That year Eurovision was broadcasted in color for the very first time! Strangely there were no new countries debuting, no countries withdrawing nor returning.  Spanish Massiel ended winning with La la la . There have been talk about vote rigging ever since. Spanish dictator Franco would have bought votes all over Europe and thus finished above UK's own Cliff Richard by one vote. One should remember also that Massiel was not to sing the song originally but Joan Manuel Serrat . He insisted on singing it in Catalan, and was replaced by Franco's regime.  After winning Massiel released the song in four languages, and quite a few cover versions were made in other languages. She continued her career until mid 1990's and have done some occasional recordings even after her retirement announcement in 1996, like this remake of La la la As said, Cliff Richard came second with evergreen Congra...