Eurovision Song Contest 1989

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eurovision Song Contest 1989
Final	6 May 1989
Presenter(s)	Jacques Deschenaux Lolita Morena
Conductor	Benoit Kaufman
Director	Pal Veiglum
Host broadcaster	SSR
Venue	Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland
Winning song	Yugoslavia "Rock Me"
Voting system
Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of entries	22
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Cyprus
Withdrawing countries	None
Nul points	Iceland
Opening act	Celine Dion singing "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi" and "Where Does My Heart Beat Now"
Interval act	Guy Tell
Eurovision Song Contest
◄1988        1990►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 was the 34th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 6 May 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Switzerland gained the hosting rights after Celine Dion's victory in Dublin the previous year. The presenters were Lolita Morena and Jacques Deschenaux. Riva was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, Rock Me, representing Yugoslavia. This was the only victory for Yugoslavia as a unified state.

United Kingdom's Ray Caruana, lead singer with Live Report was outspoken about coming second to what he considered a much less worthy song. They had been beaten by 7 points.

Two of the performers, Nathalie Pâque and Gili Natanael were respectively 11 and 12 years old at their time of competing. Due to bad publicity surrounding their participation, the European Broadcasting Union introduced the rule stating no performer is allowed to take part before the year of their 16th birthday.

The previous year's winner, Celine Dion, opened the show with a live performance of her winning song and a mimed performance of her first English-language single, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now". The song went on to become a top ten hit in the US a year later - effectively launching her into international success.

[edit] Individual Entries

[edit] Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English Translation	Place	Points
1	Italy	Italian	Anna Oxa & Fausto Leali	"Avrei voluto"	"I Would've Wanted"	9	56
2	Israel	Hebrew	Gili and Galit	"Derekh Hamelekh" ("דרך המלך")	"The King's Road"	12	50
3	Ireland	English	Kiev Connolly & The Missing Passengers	"The Real Me"	-	18	21
4	Netherlands	Dutch	Justine Palmelay	"Blijf zoals je bent"	"Stay The Way You Are"	15	45
5	Turkey	Turkish	Pan	"Bana Bana"	"To Me, To Me"	21	5
6	Belgium	Dutch	Ingeborg Sergeant	"Door de wind"	"Through The Wind"	19	13
7	United Kingdom	English	Live Report	"Why Do I Always Get it Wrong?"	-	2	130
8	Norway	Norwegian	Britt Synnøve	"Venners nærhet"	"The Closeness Of Friends"	17	30
9	Portugal	Portuguese	Da Vinci	"Conquistador"	"Conqueror"	16	39
10	Sweden	Swedish	Tommy Nilsson	"En dag"	"One Day"	4	110
11	Luxembourg	French	Park Café	"Monsieur"	-	20	8
12	Denmark	Danish	Birthe Kjær	"Vi maler byen rød"	"We're Painting The Town Red"	3	111
13	Austria	German	Thomas Forstner	"Nur ein Lied"	"Only A Song"	5	97
14	Finland	Finnish	Anneli Saaristo	"La dolce vita"	"The Sweet Life"	7	76
15	France	French	Nathalie Pâque	"J'ai volé la vie"	"I Stole Life"	8	60
16	Spain	Spanish	Nina	"Nacida para amar"	"Born To Love"	6	88
17	Cyprus	Greek	Fani Polymeri & Giannis Savvidakis	"Apopse As Vrethume" ("Απόψε ας βρεθούμε")	"Let's Meet Tonight"	11	51
18	Switzerland	Romansh	Furbaz	"Viver senza tei"	"To Live Without You"	13	47
19	Greece	Greek	Mariana Efstratiou	"To Dhiko Su Asteri" ("Το δικό σου αστέρι")	"Your Own Star"	9	56
20	Iceland	Icelandic	Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson	"Það sem enginn sér"	"What No One Sees"	22	0
21	Germany	German	Nino de Angelo	"Flieger"	"Flyers"	14	46
22	Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croatian	Riva	"Rock Me"	-	1	137

[edit] Voting structure

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.

[edit] Score sheet

		Results
	Italy		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	10	0	12	6	2	4	0	7	8
	Israel	1		7	3	0	0	2	0	0	5	0	5	0	5	0	0	0	7	0	5	3	7
	Ireland	0	0		0	7	3	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2
	Netherlands	10	0	3		0	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	4	7	6	0	0	1	0	6	0
	Turkey	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
	Belgium	0	0	5	5	0		0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	United Kingdom	6	7	4	7	1	0		12	12	10	12	1	8	6	12	10	2	0	2	0	12	6
	Norway	0	2	0	2	5	8	0		0	2	0	6	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	Portugal	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	1		3	7	0	6	2	0	8	0	0	6	0	0	0
	Sweden	0	6	0	0	0	6	4	8	8		6	12	12	0	2	5	8	3	8	2	8	12
	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Denmark	5	1	10	12	6	4	10	10	2	12	3		7	12	6	0	0	0	0	10	0	1
	Austria	12	8	0	0	3	12	0	0	0	7	0	4		1	0	2	10	8	12	8	5	5
	Finland	0	10	8	0	10	0	0	0	1	4	4	0	3		10	7	3	0	0	0	0	10
	France	3	5	6	4	0	0	0	5	0	1	8	3	5	3		0	7	0	5	0	2	3
	Spain	8	0	0	0	2	7	7	4	0	0	10	0	0	8	8		4	10	10	0	10	0
	Cyprus	2	3	1	0	0	0	6	0	6	0	0	8	2	0	0	0		4	7	12	0	0
	Switzerland	4	4	0	10	8	0	8	0	3	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0		0	7	0	0
	Greece	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	6	10	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	12	12		4	0	0
	Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0
	Germany	7	0	2	0	0	5	1	0	5	6	0	7	0	0	0	0	1	6	3	3		0
	Yugoslavia	0	12	12	8	12	10	12	7	4	8	5	10	10	7	3	0	5	5	0	6	1
THE TABLE IS ORDERED BY APPEARANCE

[edit] Spokespersons

• Italy - Peppi Franzelin
• Israel - Daniel Pe'er
• Ireland - Eileen Dunne
• The Netherlands - Joop van Os
• Turkey - Canan Kumbasar
• Belgium - Monique Delvaux
• United Kingdom - Colin Berry
• Norway - Sverre Tinnå
• Portugal - Margarida Mercês de Mello
• Sweden - Agneta Bolme-Börjefors
• Luxembourg - Fernand Mathes
• Denmark - Bent Henius
• Austria - Tilia Herold
• Finland - Solveig Herlin
• France - Marie Myriam
• Spain - Matilde Jarrín
• Cyprus - Anna
• Switzerland - Michel Dénériaz
• Greece - Fotini Yiannoulatou
• Iceland - TBD
• Germany - Sabine Sauer
• Yugoslavia - TBD

[edit] Map

     Participating countries     Countries which had previously participated but did not do so in this year