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The United Kingdom won the contest this year with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me" by Brotherhood of Man. [1] The song went on to become the biggest selling winning single in the history of the contest and won with 80.39% of the possible maximum score and an average of 9.65 of 12; a record under the voting system introduced in 1975. [2]
71 songs written by 147 songwriters have won the Eurovision Song Contest, an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union.The contest, which has been broadcast every year since its debut in 1956 (with the exception of 2020), is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world.
With a change in line-up, 'Co-Co' would return in the A Song for Europe 1978 contest, which they would win and go on to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978. The band featured Cheryl Baker who ultimately won Eurovision for the United Kingdom in 1981 with Bucks Fizz. 'Sunshine' also returned two years later, also with a different ...
They won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with "Save Your Kisses for Me". Created in 1969 by songwriter and record producer Tony Hiller, Brotherhood of Man was initially an umbrella title for a frequently-changing line-up of session singers. Early on, they scored a worldwide hit with the song "United We Stand".
Italy's Måneskin achieved international breakthrough following their Eurovision win in 2021. The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 was the sixty-fifth edition of the contest, held on 18, 20 and 22 May 2021 at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands and organised by NPO, NOS and AVROTROS. [68] [301] Rotterdam was revealed as the host city of the ...
France had rarely taken the Eurovision route of uptempo, bouncy and lyrically unchallenging pop songs, but had done so with "Un, deux, trois". Prior to the contest most observers noted that the 1976 contest was the easiest for many years to predict, with " Un, deux, trois " and the United Kingdom 's " Save Your Kisses for Me " as the only ...
Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with the song "Sing Sang Song", composed by Ralph Siegel, with lyrics by Kurt Hertha, and performed by Les Humphries Singers. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD , Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), selected their entry through a national final.
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