TV Times

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March 1970

Another 2nd place on 17th March in Amsterdam. Mary Hopkin with ‘Knock, knock who’s there ?’ 3 points behind Ireland’s Dana who sang ‘All kinds of everything’

 

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1972.

Another 2nd place in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh for The New Seekers with Beg, Steal or Borrow on 25th March. Luxembourg were the winners with ’Apres Toi’ Sung by Vicky Leandros. Eurovision that year was held in the UK because Monaco the winner the previous year did not have the infrastructure for the competition.
There were around 17 to 18 countries competing around this time only one from behind the Iron Curtain- Yugoslavia.

 

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Innocent days before it all went political.

 

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Innocent days before it all went political.

It got that way when it expanded from the late 1980s onwards.

 

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1971

Clodagh Rogers finished 4th at the Gaiety Hall, Dublin on 3rd April with the song ‘ Jack in the Box’

 

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1969

Lulu with Boom,Bang-a-Bang won Eurovision jointly with 3 other acts from Spain, France & The Netherlands on 29th March.

Trivia point, Boom, Bang-a-Bang was blacklisted by the BBC during the Gulf War in 1991 !

 

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1976

Brotherhood of Man were UK winners In The Hague,Netherlands on 3rd April 1976.
Surprise that year was no entry from Sweden just a couple of years after ABBA blew everyone away at Brighton Dome.

 

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13th May 1986.

The Australian film, Picnic at Hanging Rock(1975) gets its first airing on UK TV. Based on a novel written by Joan Lindsey in the late 1960s, some thought the film was a partially true story, but like the novel it’s fiction. A decent film iirc.

 

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Sam Ryder after the end of the 26 acts performing on Eurovision, just blew them all way.

 

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He should be our candidate for the next 10 years