The Eurovision song contest points system with the famous 12 points was introduced in 1975 - and invented by a Finn by the way - and the idea was to avoid zero points and make the top favorites stand out more. Until then there were most every year several entries with zero points when the few points to give landed on the same few favorites. Now it was thought it was easy to get a fll ranking and almost impossible to score a zero. Of course history would prove different- The first and most legendary zero came in Paris 1978 when Norway's jahn Teigen got nothoing for his Mil efter mil. That didn't stop him coming back twice (and trying about a zillion times) with better results. And three years later another Norwegian, Finn Kalvik followed with Aldri i livet. That Abba produced the song in their studio and Agnetha and Frida sung backing vocals didn't help. In 1982 it was time for Finland's Kojo with Nuku pommiin. He's still known in Finland as "Nolla-Kojo" ...