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Tonight 8 years ago... Everybody

Parken Stadium hosted the 46th Eurovision on May 12, 2001. A total of 38.000 people were there and what may have looked like a good idea on paper turned against its greatness. Luckily the venues have been smaller ever since! 23 countries were there, amongst them Michelle from Germany and Norway sent a song titled On my own. The Netherlands combined both by sending Michelle singing Out on my own. None of them made great impact. Fabrizio Faniello and Antique (aka Helena Paparizou) were there and Aqua made a short comeback as interval act. There were many favourites, including Antique, Natasha St.Pier, Friends, David Civera and Nusa Derenda but the top-2 was a big surprise: Denmark scored a second place and Estonia took everybody by surprise. However one must say their performance was one of the most relaxed on the evening. They seemed to enjoy being on stage and just sing and dance with no worries and it turned into a first ex-Sovjet country's victory. Tanel Padar and Dave Benton par...

Tonight 43 years ago... Merci chérie

The 11th Eurovision song contest took place March 5, 1966 in Grand Auditorium de RTL in Luxembourg and Austria's Udo Jürgens was third time lucky with Merci chérie . Milly Scott from the Netherlands was the very first coloured singer, and also the very first who didn't stand behind her microphone but used a handy. Jurors didn't like the combination and it took another 35 years before a coloured singer won the contest, namely Dave Benton for Estonia. Udo's win was very clear: 31 votes against 16 for Swedish Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson. Denmark said goodbye to Eurovision for 11 years and returned only 1978. And Italy scored a flat zero with Domenico Modugno's Dio come ti amo . How do you explain that? And Udo still tours and records... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeeStaXs1sQ