Eurovision Song Contest 1987

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Eurovision Song Contest 1987
Eurovision Song Contest 1987
Dates
Finaldate 9 May 1987
Host
Venue Palais du Centenaire
Brussels, Belgium
Presenter(s) Viktor Lazlo
Conductor Jo Carlier
Director Jacques Bourton
Executive supervisor Frank Naef
Hostbroadcaster Radio Tlvision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
Openingact Viktor Lazlo singing "Breathless"
Intervalact Mark Grauwels
Participants
Numberofentries 22
Debutingcountries None
Returningcountries
Greece
Italy
Withdrawingcountries None
Vote
Votingsystem Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nulpoints
Turkey
Winningsong Ireland
"Hold Me Now"
Eurovision Song Contest
1986 1988
The Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was the 32nd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 9 May 1987 in
Brussels, Belgium after Sandra Kim's win the previous year. The presenter was Viktor Lazlo. Johnny Logan was the
winner for Ireland with the song "Hold Me Now". That made him the first performer to win the contest twice, as he
had won also in 1980.
The 1987 Eurovision was the biggest contest at that time, with 22 countries taking part. Only Malta, Monaco and
Morocco failed to compete out of all the countries which had entered the contest in the past. Due to the number of
countries, and the time it took for the contest to be held, the EBU set the limit of competing countries to 22. This
became problematic over the next few years as new and returning nations indicated an interest in participating, but
could not be accommodated.
Controversy erupted in Israel after their song was selected, "Shir Habatlanim" by Datner & Kushnir. The comedic
performance was criticised by the country's culture minister, who threatened to resign should the duo proceed to
Brussels. They went on to perform for Israel, placing eighth; however the culture minister's threat was left
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unfulfilled.
Conductors
Host conductor in bold
Norway - Terje Fjrn Netherlands - Rogier van Otterloo
Israel - Kobi Oshrat Luxembourg - Alec Mansion
Austria - Richard sterreicher
United Kingdom - Ronnie Hazlehurst
Iceland - Hjlmar H. Ragnarsson France - Jean-Claude Petit
Belgium - Freddy Sunder Germany - Laszlo Bencker
Sweden - Curt-Eric Holmquist Cyprus - Jo Carlier
Italy - Gianfranco Lombardi Finland - Ossi Runne
Portugal - Jaime Oliveira Denmark - Henrik Krogsgaard
Spain - Eduardo Leyva
Ireland - Noel Kelehan
Turkey - Garo Mafyan
Yugoslavia - Nikica Kalogjera
Greece - Yiorgos Niarchos Switzerland - no conductor
Results
Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
01
Norway
Norwegian Kate Gulbrandsen "Mitt liv" My life 9 65
02
Israel
Hebrew Datner & Kushnir "Shir Habatlanim" (
)
The lazy bums song 8 73
03
Austria
German Gary Lux "Nur noch Gefhl" Only emotion 20 8
04
Iceland
Icelandic Halla Margrt "Hgt og hljtt" Slowly and quietly 16 28
05
Belgium
Dutch Liliane Saint-Pierre "Soldiers of Love" 11 56
06
Sweden
Swedish Lotta Engberg "Boogaloo" 12 50
07
Italy
Italian Umberto Tozzi & Raf "Gente di mare" People of the sea 3 103
08
Portugal
Portuguese Nevada "Neste barco vela" In this sailing boat 18 15
09
Spain
Spanish Patricia Kraus "No ests solo" You're not alone 19 10
10
Turkey
Turkish Seyyal Taner &
Lokomotif
"arkm Sevgi stne" My song is about love 22 0
11
Greece
Greek Bang "Stop" () 10 64
12
Netherlands
Dutch Marcha "Rechtop in de wind" Upright in the wind 5 83
13 Luxembourg French Plastic Bertrand "Amour, Amour" Love, Love 21 4
14 United
Kingdom
English Rikki "Only the Light" 13 47
15
France
French Christine Minier "Les mots d'amour n'ont pas de
dimanche"
The words of love don't
have a Sunday
14 44
16 Germany German Wind "Lass die Sonne in dein Herz" Let the sun into your heart 2 141
17
Cyprus
Greek Alexia "Aspro Mavro"
(-)
White black 7 80
18 Finland Finnish Vicky Rosti & Boulevard "Sata salamaa" A hundred lightnings 15 32
19
Denmark
Danish Anne-Cathrine Herdorf
& Bandjo
"En lille melodi" A little tune 5 83
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20 Ireland English Johnny Logan "Hold Me Now" 1 172
21 Yugoslavia Croatian Novi Fosili "Ja sam za ples" I wanna dance 4 92
22
Switzerland
French Carol Rich "Moiti, moiti" Half and half 17 26
Score sheet
Juries
Norway 65 4 7 10 7 3 4 4 7 3 5 3 2 6
Israel 73 2 1 5 6 4 10 3 4 10 8 7 5 8
Austria 8 1 7
Iceland 28 4 4 4 6 10
Belgium 56 5 2 3 6 7 4 5 8 4 5 3 4
Sweden 50 12 8 1 3 7 2 3 7 7
Italy 103 3 6 3 5 1 12 12 8 4 1 12 1 4 12 12 7
Portugal 15 8 5 2
Spain 10 10
Turkey 0
Greece 64 1 2 6 8 5 7 5 7 12 6 5
Netherlands 83 5 2 10 5 7 3 8 3 12 2 2 6 8 10
Luxembourg 4 2 2
United Kingdom 47 10 5 3 5 3 3 1 2 1 4 3 2 5
France 44 1 4 5 4 1 12 5 10 2
Germany 141 3 8 10 12 10 7 4 5 1 6 10 6 10 6 6 10 12 7 7 1
Cyprus 80 6 6 2 12 2 6 5 3 6 10 8 10 4
Finland 32 10 3 4 2 1 8 2 1 1
Denmark 83 7 6 7 7 8 2 1 1 8 6 7 8 8 4 3
Ireland 172 8 4 12 12 12 12 8 10 10 12 10 12 1 6 8 12 5 6 12
Yugoslavia 92 12 7 8 10 8 6 6 12 2 2 10 8 1
Switzerland 26 1 2 5 7 3 4 1 3
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12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
N. Contestant Voting nation
8 Ireland Austria, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
5 Italy Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia
2 Germany Denmark, Iceland
Yugoslavia Norway, Turkey
1 Cyprus Greece
France Luxembourg
Greece Cyprus
Netherlands France
Sweden Israel
Returning artists
Artist Country Previous year(s)
Gary Lux
Austria
1983 (member of Westend), 1985
Alexia
Cyprus
1981 (member of Island)
Wind Germany 1985
Johnny Logan Ireland 1980 (winner)
Commentators
Television
Norway - John Andreassen & Tor Paulsen (NRK)
Israel - No commentator
Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS1)
Iceland - Kolbrn Halldrsdttir (Sjnvarpi)
Belgium - Luc Appermont (BRT TV1),
[1]
Claude Delacroix (RTBF1)
Sweden - Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1)
Italy Rosanna Vaudetti (Raidue)
Portugal - Maria Margarida Gaspar (RTP1)
Spain - Beatriz Pcker (TVE2)
Turkey - Glgn Baysal (TV1)
[2]
Greece - Dafni Bokota (ERT)
Netherlands - Willem van Beusekom (Nederland 1)
Luxembourg - Valrie Sarn (RTL Tlvision), TBC (RTL plus)
United Kingdom - Terry Wogan (BBC 1)
[3]
France - Patrick Simpson-Jones (Antenne 2)
Germany - Lotti Ohnesorge & Christoph Deumling (Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen)
Cyprus - Fryni Papadopoulou (RIK)
[4]
Finland - Erkki Toivanen (YLE TV1)
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Denmark - Jrgen de Mylius (DR TV)
Ireland - Marty Whelan (RT 1)
[5]
Yugoslavia - Ksenija Urlicic (TVZ 2 and TVB1), Mia Molk (TVL1)
Switzerland - Bernard Thurnheer (DRS), Serge Moisson (SSR), Ezio Guidi (TSI)
Poland (non-participating country)- Bogusaw Brelik (TP1)
Radio
Norway - Roald yen (NRK P1)
Israel - Yigal Ravid (Reshet Gimel)
Austria - Hans Leitinger (Hitradio 3)
Iceland - N/A
Belgium - Julien Put & Herwig Haes (BRT Radio 2), Patrick Duhamel & Stphane Dupont (RTBF La
Premire)
Sweden - Jacob Dahlin (SR P3)
Italy - Antonio De Robertis (Rai Radio 2)
Portugal - N/A
Spain - N/A
Turkey - N/A
Greece - N/A
Netherlands - Rudi Carrell (Radio 2)
Luxembourg - Andr Torrent (RTL Radio)
United Kingdom - Ray Moore (BBC Radio 2)
France - Julien Lepers (France Inter)
Germany - Peter Urban (Deutschlandfunk/NDR Radio 2)
Cyprus - Pavlos Pavlou (CyBC Radio 2)
Finland - TBC (YLE Radio Suomi)
Denmark - Poul Birch Eriksen (DR P3)
Ireland - Mike Murphy (RT Radio 1)
Yugoslavia - N/A
Switzerland - TBC
Spokespersons
Norway - Sverre Christophersen
[6]
Israel - Yitzhak Shim'oni
Austria - Tilia Herold
Iceland - Gurn Skladttir
Belgium - Anne Ploegaerts
Sweden - Jan Ellers
Italy Mariolina Cannuli
Portugal - Ana Zanatti
Spain - Matilde Fernndez Jarrn
Turkey - Canan Kumbasar
Greece - Kelly Sakakou
Netherlands - Ralph Inbar
Luxembourg - Frdrique Ries
United Kingdom - Colin Berry
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France - Lionel Cassan
Germany - Kerstin Schweighofer
Cyprus - Anna Partelidou
Finland - Solveig Herlin
Denmark - Bent Henius
Ireland - Brendan Balfe
Yugoslavia - Miloje Orlovic
Switzerland - Michel Stocker
[7]
National jury members
Iceland - sa Mara sgeirsdttir, Einar Mr Rkharsson, Gumunda Ingimundardttir, Hildur Karen
Aalsteinsdttir, Jhannes Gulaugsson, Nanna Lind Svavarsdttir, Oddrn Kristjnsdttir, skar Ingimar
rlygsson, Steingrmur Gujnsson, -orsteinn Ptursson, -ra Sigurjnsdttir
Spain Jos Fernndez (waiter), Mara Rosa Snchez (telephone operator), Jos Miguel Garca
(underground driver), Francisco Ortega "Ayo" (businessman), Mara Lanz (yachtswoman), Feliciano Castaares
(taxi driver and poet), Pilar Zanca (businesswoman), Ral Daz (student), Concepcin Meller (housewife), Fran
de Gonari (fashion designer), Miguel Durn (president of ONCE)
Possible Soviet Union participation
In 2009 Eduard Fomin, a former employee of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, revealed that in 1987 George
Veselov, the Minister of Education for the Soviet Union, brought forward the idea of a participation of the Soviet
Union at the Eurovision Song Contest due to the number of political reforms made by the President of the Soviet
Union Mikhail Gorbachev during the late 1980s. The idea was mainly a political one, with the thought that a win in
the contest for the Soviet Union would impact on the relationships between the Soviet Union and the capitalist
countries of the west. Valery Leontyev was suggested as a name for the Soviet Union's first participation, however
Veselov's ideas were not shared by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or by Gorbachev himself, believing it
to be too radical a step to take, and so no Soviet participation was ever made. Ten former republics of the Soviet
Union would later compete in the contest on their own in the 1990s and 2000s: Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,
Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, with five of the countries going on to win the
contest.
References
[1] Adriaens, Manu & Loeckx-Van Cauwenberge, Joken. Blijven kiken!. Lannoo, Belgium. 2003 ISBN 90-209-5274-9
[2] http:/ / www. itusozluk.com/ goster.php/ 1987+ eurovision+ %FEark%FD+ yar%FD%FEmas%FD/ @8077364
[3] Eurovision Song Contest 1987 BBC Archives (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ programmes/ p007xrqc)
[4] [4] Savvidis, Christos (OGAE Cyprus)
[5] Whelan speaks about Eurovision to BBC (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 1/ hi/ entertainment/ 6619487. stm#marty)
[6] [6] Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
[7] [7] Baumann, Peter Ramn (OGAE Switzerland)
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