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THROWBACK EUROVISION THURSDAY: WEMBLEY, LONDON 1977

Eurovision throwback! New series. I will present and comment here the contests of yesteryears picking up four songs from each year (or more). Not the ones I think are the best (now) but the songs that throwback memories when I see them in the participation list. Of course mostly they're my favorites at the time, songs that I have loved. Some have aged well, some... well, not so well.   Before 2020, the 1977 edition of Eurovision has been propably the most troubled one. The contest was postponed thanks to BBC's strike, the native language rule returned but only after Belgium and Germany had already chosen their songs (in English), the voting was interrupted several times due to errors, there were no postcards...  This was also the first ESC held in May. Pink was the color as besides white and black (and Marie Myriam's yellow) it seemed to be the only other color (some ugly marrow is spotted on occasion, too). BBC tried some camera effects (Monaco) and the contest ...

ESC 2015 FRANCE: LISA ANGELL TO VIENNA

France has announced today 46-year-old Lisa Angell will represant France this year with N'oubliez pas , a classic French ballad written to commemorate the Wold War I by Robert (Jean-Jacues's brother) Goldman) and also all the wars and recent events in Paris. She's half Italian and has released three albums so far, the latst one a cover album of songs from the 1930's-1950's. Last year she met with Conchita Wurst and even recorded the last French winning song L'oiseau et l'enfant with Tony Carreira.