Late night REWATCH: The Hague 1980 (11:30 10/04)

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12 Netherlands
10 Switzerland
08 Belgium
07 Austria
06 Ireland
05 Sweden
04 Spain
03 France
02 Greece
01 Portugal
 
Sounds like a Scooch/Cyndi fuck up that Terry presided over AGAIN this year

Their journey to the Eurovision Song Contest final in The Hague was not straightforward. They only won the UK heat A Song For Europe after a countback after the initial regional voting had placed them joint first with Maggie Moone. In an unrehearsed panic, host Terry Wogan asked each of the fourteen regional juries to cast a single vote for which of the songs they preferred. Some juries voted against the way they had earlier in the show and with the scoreboard unable to keep up, the entire process descended into farce. Regardless, Prima Donna were declared the winners and went forward to Eurovision.

Author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor notes in his The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History that Triplett is one of only four singers to have sung for the United Kingdom in the competition twice, alongside Ronnie Carroll, Cliff Richard and Cheryl Baker of Bucks Fizz.[1] O'Connor also noted that this was the first UK entry, since 1964, not to make the UK Singles Chart prior to the Eurovision final, eventually peaking there at #48.[1][2] The group released one more single in September 1980, "Just Got to be You", but failed to chart.[3] They disbanded soon after, with member Kate Robbins scoring a UK No.2 hit single a few months later.[2]
 
Fuck author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor

I hate him so much.
 
I will be highly disappointed if they get though this voting without a local taxi firm breaking in to try and dispatch a driver to Schipol.
 
The Dutch host broadcaster must have been shitting themselves at this point.
 
How many points for Norway? She’s been on the VINO backstage
 
The 1980s is full of shit female hosts.

The German and the Belgian hosts are much worse.
 

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