Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Nino De Angelo shot to fame with Jenseits von Eden in 1983, a German #1 hit for ten weeks (also #1 in Austria and Switzerland), while the Italian version topped the French charts for 5 weeks. More singles were released in German, Italian and English without major impact, until his Eurovision 1989 trip with Flieger . I lost track of him after his first two albums and collecting his singles in various languages and usually liking more the B-sides No more and especially Tempo verrà ., but I was very happy to find him briefly again in 1989 and why Flieger did so bad is still a bit of a mystery...... Oh, and he's still around apparently. 

The SRF's internet submission in Switzerland ends in less than a week and it's as good a time as any to have a look what's in store there.  First I picked Jerome Mevis and All we can do . It's a sweet guitar ballad with nice vocals and just gets better with each listening. Sometimes less is more and this is another prove of just that. If this acoustic guitar duo can be as convincing live, who knows where they could end up? Next Sand Lato , and funky girl with Italian roots singing in French C'est fini , what would be more suiting for Switzerland? Fun song with great performer and sound. Could this do the trick in Copenhagen? Nothing like real German schlager, is there? Well, yes....but... Anyways, Leonard and his man of the world, Ein Mann von Welt brings us back in time in sound and melody, and he looks the part, too. Maybe the circle has turned as it sounds quite cool again! This is like Nino de Angelo of the 2010's. MBHL of My Body Has Legs i...

Eurovision returned to Switzerland after a break of 33 years when Lausanne hosted the show on May 6, 1989. The opening was the longest ever and it took forever before Celine Dion took the stage to mime a part of her winning entry the year before and then belting out her very first single in English. She really put the Berlitz language school into good use! The big favourites were Israel and France, both sporting a 12-year-old singer. Luckily they propably ate each other votes and neither of them won, and caused a new rule: artists must be 16 years old. Italy send two big names, Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali. Anna declared she wanted to win Sanremo only to be able to do Eurovision! Unfortunately they ended up only on shared 9th place, scoring next to nothing in the early part of the voting. Switzerland sung for the only time ever in the country's fourth official language: retoromanisch. Austria and Germany shared the songwriters when Dieter "Modern Talking" Bohlen wrote both ...