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Welsh Megaman

Dana



How's her brother?

Skid X

They cut off those smug gits just before one of them said "Frankly, Mr Epstein, Guitar Music is on it's way out ..."

Welsh Megaman

No wind machine? :eek:

Skid X

This looks like a decent programme, different from the usual Eurovision nostalgia.

Welsh Megaman

On behalf of the UK, thank you Phil Coulter

Skid X

Love the intro to Congratulations.

Cliff was robbed.

Welsh Megaman

School books at 18?

Welsh Megaman

*swaying*

Skid X

Yes! Go on Dana. Lovely song.

They should repeat the old shows in full, the ones we won.

Welsh Megaman

After Dana won, it was all downhill for Ireland :pac: :pac: :pac:

Skid X

They gave us colour cameras, we gave them Wogan

Skid X

I know the fall of communism was a good thing, but I miss the old days when we won every year.

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

I know the fall of communism was a good thing, but I miss the old days when we won every year.

My earliest Eurovision was the '1993 nail-biter' (as nobody calls it) between Sonia and Niamh Kavanagh

Skid X

David Vine from the snooker introducing Abba.

What a time to have been alive.

Welsh Megaman

T H E L O G A N

Welsh Megaman

Michael Flatley's Mullet

Skid X

Love City Groove!
Gina G!

Well, I liked them anyway.

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

Love City Groove!
Gina G!

Well, I liked them anyway.

They should just show Eurovision performances in full - the obscure acts, as opposed to the usual ones.

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Michael Flatley's Mullet

That was a non runner in Alan Partridge's Horse Race.

Come on Alf Ramsey's Porn Dungeon!

Skid X

Voting blocs and gimmicks help, but In most years the best song wins.

Harry Palmr

The decline of the quality in British entries is fully laid bare watching this. What's more alarming is that so many of the earlier songs (not all winners) actually sound pretty decent now. I need help

Ol' Donie

ALARM!

ALARM!

ALARM!

SEDAKA ALARM!!

Ol' Donie

This show, much like easy listening, is pretty rubbish.

Good to see Richard Clayderman was a real person, and not an oddly uncomfortable made up memory from my childhood.

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

This show, much like easy listening, is pretty rubbish.

Good to see Richard Clayderman was a real person, and not an oddly uncomfortable made up memory from my childhood.

yeah, why was he famous?

I have a memory of crossing the road with my Aunt (many years ago), who looked at the driver of the car stopped at the traffic lights and shouted "Look, it's Richard Clayderman!"

It was actually Chris DeBurgh in the car (genuinely), but she was more of a Richard Clayderman fan, apparently.

Ol' Donie

He played a bunch of piano tunes. I remember my mother thinking it was great. Much greater, for example, than the "Fields Of Athenry" by Paddy Reilly record my dad bought her in a very ill advised Christmas present scamper in the mid 80s.

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

He played a bunch of piano tunes. I remember my mother thinking it was great. Much greater, for example, than the "Fields Of Athenry" by Paddy Reilly record my dad bought her in a very ill advised Christmas present scamper in the mid 80s.

I remember my parents borrowing a Record Player, and apparently only having one record to play on it. (To be fair, they were more into tapes. They never really embraced records). This was it

Well, you could do a lot worse. I can still hear the crackles in it.

Ol' Donie

Skid X wrote: »

I remember my parents borrowing a Record Player, and apparently only having one record to play on it. (To be fair, they were more into tapes. They never really embraced records). This was it

Well, you could do a lot worse. I can still hear the crackles in it.

Ha! That's gas. My mother had very few tapes, but the favourite was Glenn Campbell at the Country Store (as a kid I thought it was something to do with the sugary muesli Kellog's used to make).

I was given a walkman at one point, but nothing to play on it. I used to steal that tape, cos it was the closest thing to pop music I could find.

It was a simler time, in many ways. :-D

Go Harvey Go

Skid X wrote: »

Love the intro to Congratulations.

Cliff was robbed.

What did Yugoslavia have against Cliff - and against Scott Fitzgerald?

Skid X wrote: »

Yes! Go on Dana. Lovely song.

"All Kinds of Everything" also knocked "Bridge Over Troubled Water" off the top of the UK charts.

That would make a good pub quiz question, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

My earliest Eurovision was the '1993 nail-biter' (as nobody calls it) between Sonia and Niamh Kavanagh

Which wouldn't have been quite as nail-biting if the Maltese jury hadn't had to be called back at the end following technical difficulties...

Skid X wrote: »

Love City Groove!

They almost certainly would have finished higher than equal 10th - and might possibly have even given Rolf and Fionnuala a run for their money - if the live orchestra hadn't been mandatory (it became optional four years later).

Skid X wrote: »

Voting blocs and gimmicks help, but In most years the best song wins.

"Hard Rock Hallelujah", "Fairytale", "Satellite" and "Euphoria" were undoubtedly the best songs in their respective years.

But was Dima Bilan's "Believe" the best song in 2008? Sirusho's "Qele, Qele" finished ahead of it in the semi, and picked up more 12s than anyone else in the final...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ga_ItCE6tY

Harry Palmr

Heyday TV tonight, something a bit rare - 6 PM FOCUS a collection of live work.

trashcan

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

"All Kinds of Everything" also knocked "Bridge Over Troubled Water" off the top of the UK charts.


Good God, that's just so wrong :eek: