Eurovision Song Contest 1982

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Eurovision Song Contest 1982
ESC 1982 logo.png
Dates
Final date 24 April 1982
Host
Venue Harrogate International Centre
Harrogate, United Kingdom
Presenter(s) Jan Leeming
Conductor Ronnie Hazlehurst
Director Michael Hurll
Host broadcaster United Kingdom BBC
Opening act Introductions by Jan Leeming
Interval act Pictures from Yorkshire and Castle Howard
Participants
Number of entries 18
Debuting countries None
Returning countries None
Withdrawing countries  France
 Greece
Participation map
  • ESC 1982 Map.svg      Participating participants     Countries who have participated in the past but did not this year
Vote
Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points  Finland
Winning song  Germany
"Ein bißchen Frieden"
Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1982 was the 27th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 24 April 1982 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The presenter was Jan Leeming. The opening of the contest showed a map of Europe, with the translation "Where is Harrogate?" popping up on-screen from the languages of the various countries. Then the map zoomed into Harrogate's location in Yorkshire, followed by an introduction video spotlighting the town.

The German entrant, Nicole, was the winner of this contest with the song, "Ein bißchen Frieden". Germany got 1.61 times as many points as runner-up Israel, which was a record under the current scoring system until 2009, when Norway got 1.78 times as many points as Iceland. The song also cemented Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger, the song's composers, into German Eurovision tradition, writing 18 Eurovision songs between them before and after "Ein bißchen Frieden", 13 of which were for Germany.

Greece was due to participate in the contest with the song "Sarantapente Kopelies" performed by Themis Adamantidis. Although drawn to perform in second place, ERT withdrew the entry a few weeks before the contest.

In November 1981, France's national broadcaster, TF1, declined to enter the Eurovision Song Contest for 1982, with the head of entertainment, Pierre Bouteiller, saying, "The absence of talent and the mediocrity of the songs were where annoyance set in. [Eurovision is] a monument to insanity [sometimes translated as "drivel"]."[1] Antenne 2 became the new broadcaster for Eurovision after public outcry, returning the country to the Contest in 1983.

This was the first time that Germany won the contest. It has competed every year (with one exception) since the contest's inception. Germany won again in 2010, twenty-eight years after their first win.

Contents

[edit] Individual Entries

Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982

[edit] Results

Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
01  Portugal Portuguese Doce "Bem bom" Very good 13 32
02  Luxembourg French Svetlana "Cours après le temps" Run after time 6 78
03  Norway Norwegian Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan "Adieu" Goodbye 12 40
04  United Kingdom English Bardo "One Step Further" — 7 76
05  Turkey Turkish Neco "Hani?" Where? 15 20
06  Finland Finnish Kojo "Nuku pommiin" Oversleep 18 0
07  Switzerland French Arlette Zola "Amour on t'aime" Love we love you 3 97
08  Cyprus Greek Anna Vissi "Mono I Agapi" (Μόνο η αγάπη) Only love 5 85
09  Sweden Swedish Chips "Dag efter dag" Day after day 8 67
10  Austria German Mess "Sonntag" Sunday 9 57
11  Belgium French Stella "Si tu aimes ma musique" If you like my music 4 96
12  Spain Spanish Lucía "Él" Him 10 52
13  Denmark Danish Brixx "Video, Video" — 17 5
14  Yugoslavia Serbo-Croatian Aska "Halo, Halo (Хало, хало)" Hello, hello 14 21
15  Israel Hebrew Avi Toledano "Hora" (הורה) Hora 2 100
16  Netherlands Dutch Bill van Dijk "Jij en ik" You and I 16 8
17  Ireland English The Duskeys "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" — 11 49
18  Germany German Nicole "Ein bißchen Frieden" A little peace 1 161

[edit] Voting structure

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.

Germany had the advantage of performing last. After coming second in 1980 and second in Dublin the year previously, Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger took the first Grand Prix for Germany. The winner, Nicole, beat the nearest competition by 61 points and over 13 million West Germans watched her victory on television. Germany was the commanding leader for nearly the entire voting process.

Nicole went on to sing the reprise of her song in English, French and Dutch, as well as German, to the delight of the invited audience in Harrogate Conference Centre who stood to applaud her. The English version of her Eurovision winner, A Little Peace, subsequently shot to No1 in the UK Singles Chart.

[edit] Score sheet

Juries
Total Score Portugal Luxembourg Norway United Kingdom Turkey Finland Switzerland Cyprus Sweden Austria Belgium Spain Denmark Yugoslavia Israel Netherlands Ireland Germany
Contestants Portugal 32 7 4 5 2 1 6 1 4 2
Luxembourg 78 6 7 6 3 7 2 8 5 4 5 7 10 8
Norway 40 6 4 4 6 2 2 6 10
United Kingdom 76 4 12 6 10 4 5 3 12 1 2 6 2 1 7 1
Turkey 20 8 3 1 3 3 2
Finland 0
Switzerland 97 2 2 4 12 2 6 2 10 12 7 10 10 10 8
Cyprus 85 5 4 12 3 8 8 5 3 7 5 7 12 6
Sweden 67 7 3 8 5 3 4 8 5 4 8 2 5 3 2
Austria 57 10 7 7 6 8 6 4 4 5
Belgium 96 8 5 5 2 6 5 2 8 7 4 10 10 7 6 3 4 4
Spain 52 1 8 6 7 10 4 1 8 7
Denmark 5 3 1 1
Yugoslavia 21 4 1 12 1 3
Israel 100 10 10 1 1 12 10 2 10 7 7 6 1 3 8 12
Netherlands 8 3 5
Ireland 49 1 2 7 1 6 5 5 3 5 8 3 3
Germany 161 12 10 8 12 10 12 12 8 1 10 12 12 12 12 6 12

[edit] 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N. To From
9 Germany Cyprus, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Yugoslavia
2 Cyprus Netherlands, Norway
Israel Finland, Germany
Switzerland Belgium, United Kingdom
United Kingdom Austria, Luxembourg
1 Yugoslavia Sweden

[edit] Conductors

Host conductor in bold

[edit] Returning artists

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Stella Maessen  Belgium 1970 (for the Netherlands, part of Hearts of Soul), 1977 (part of Dream Express)
Anna Vissi  Cyprus 1980 (for Greece)
Anita Skorgan  Norway 1977, 1979
Jahn Teigen  Norway 1978
Fatima Padinha (part of Doce)  Portugal 1978 (part of Gemini)
Teresa Miguel (part of Doce)  Portugal 1978 (part of Gemini)
Sally Ann Triplett (part of Bardo)  United Kingdom 1980 (part of Prima Donna)

[edit] Commentators

[edit] Television

[edit] Radio

[edit] Spokespersons

[edit] National jury members

[edit] References

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  14. ^ http://www.ecgermany.de/archiv/1982esc.htm
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  18. ^ Baumann, Peter Ramón (OGAE Switzerland)
  19. ^ Savvidis, Christos (OGAE Cyprus)
  20. ^ http://www.infosajten.com/esc/esc/swedishspokesmen.html
  21. ^ http://www.evropesma.org/forum55/index.php?topic=870.msg144606#msg144606
  22. ^ http://sf.tapuz.co.il/shirshur-262-1949782.htm
  23. ^ http://eurofestival.host22.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1442
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