Eurovision Song Contest 1984

Eurovision Song Contest 1984
Dates
Final date	5 May 1984
Host
Venue	Grand Theatre Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Presenter(s)	Désirée Nosbusch
Conductor	Pierre Cao
Director	Rene Steichen
Host broadcaster	RTL
Opening act	In an introductory video, Pierre Cao and the RTL orchestra performed instrumental versions of all the past Eurovision winners from Luxembourg.
Interval act	Prague Theatre of Illuminated Drawings
Participants
Number of entries	19
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Ireland
Withdrawing countries	Greece Israel
Participation map      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	None
Winning song	Sweden "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley"
Eurovision Song Contest
◄1983 1985►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was the 29th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 5 May 1984 in Luxembourg. The presenter was Désirée Nosbusch. Nosbusch, only 19 years old at the time, hosted the show in a lax manner, which was quite unusual for this show back then. She manifested her fluency in four languages when she switched between English, French, German and Luxembourgish in the course of her speech, often in the same sentence.

The Herreys were the winners of this Eurovision with the song, "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". Their "golden shoes" have become a pop-cult classic since their win in 1984. The win was Sweden's second, and the first for a song performed in Swedish. The previous Swedish winner, "Waterloo" by ABBA in 1974, had been performed in English.

Israel withdrew from the contest due to a local memorial day commemorated on the same date. This year is also notable as one of the first contests where audible booing for an entry could be heard from the audience which occurred at the end of the UK's performance. It was said that the booing was due to English football fans causing damage in Luxembourg the year prior to the contest.

Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Sweden	Swedish	Herreys	"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley"	-	1	145
02	Luxembourg	French	Sophie Carle	"100% d'amour"	100% of Love	10	39
03	France	French	Annick Thoumazeau	"Autant d'amoureux que d'étoiles"	As Many Lovers As Stars	8	61
04	Spain	Spanish	Bravo	"Lady, Lady"	-	3	106
05	Norway	Norwegian	Dollie de Luxe	"Lenge leve livet"	Long Live Life	17	29
06	United Kingdom	English	Belle & the Devotions	"Love Games"	-	7	63
07	Cyprus	Greek	Andy Paul	"Anna Maria Lena" (Άννα Μαρία Λένα)	-	15	31
08	Belgium	French	Jacques Zegers	"Avanti la vie"	Go Forward In Life	5	70
09	Ireland	English	Linda Martin	"Terminal 3"	-	2	137
10	Denmark	Danish	Hot Eyes	"Det' lige det"	That's Just It	4	101
11	Netherlands	Dutch	Maribelle	"Ik hou van jou"	I Love You	13	34
12	Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croatian	Vlado & Isolda	"Ciao, amore"	Goodbye, My Love	18	26
13	Austria	German	Anita	"Einfach weg"	Just Get Away	19	5
14	Germany	German	Mary Roos	"Aufrecht geh'n"	Walk Tall	13	34
15	Turkey	Turkish	Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra	"Halay"	-	12	37
16	Finland	Finnish	Kirka	"Hengaillaan"	Let's Hang Around	9	46
17	Switzerland	German	Rainy Day	"Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?"	What Colour Is The Sunshine?	16	30
18	Italy	Italian	Alice & Franco Battiato	"I treni di Tozeur"	The Trains Of Tozeur	5	70
19	Portugal	Portuguese	Maria Guinot	"Silêncio e tanta gente"	Silence And So Many People	11	38

Voting structure

Before the Contest, Sweden was not expected to win or even achieve a higher placing. In the run-up to the Contest, bookmakers Ladbrokes had the lowest odds on the songs from Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Sweden was considered a "dark horse" entry with high odds.

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

At the close of the penultimate jury's votes, there was only a difference of six points between Sweden and Ireland (141 and 135 respectively). However, Yugoslavia was the only country who had not given any points to Ireland and the last jury, Portugal, gave Ireland only 2 points, thus crushing their chances of winning. Portugal's voting also cost Denmark, who had been lying on a very strong 3rd position, and even leading the score board for a short time, its 3rd place, when Portugal's 12 lifted Spain from 94 to 106 points, while Portugal at the same time had only given Denmark one point making Denmark's total 101 points. Despite this, this was Denmark's best position in over 20 years.

Score sheet

		Results
	Sweden	145		6	6	4	10	7	12	7	12	12	10	4	12	12	3	8	10	6	4
	Luxembourg	39				7			7		5	5		8			4			3
	France	61	2				2	6	3	10			12		8				4	7	7
	Spain	106	10	8	10		6	4	6	3	7	7	2	2	6		12		3	8	12
	Norway	29	8	7						1	3					2		6	2
	United Kingdom	63	3	1		3	8		2	2	8	1	4	1	2	7	1	4		10	6
	Cyprus	31	4		1						4	10		12
	Belgium	70		12	12	2	3						8		3	4	5	10		1	10
	Ireland	137	12	5	3	10	4	8	10	12		3	7		10	10	10	7	12	12	2
	Denmark	101	5	3	8	6	12	12	5	8	10		3	6	4	5	2	5	1	5	1
	Netherlands	34		2	7	8		1			6			5					5
	Yugoslavia	26			2			3	8							3	8	2
	Austria	5									1	4
	Germany	34			4		7	2		6		2	5		1					2	5
	Turkey	37	6					5		4	2		1	10				3	6
	Finland	46	7		5	1	5		4			6		3	5	1	6				3
	Switzerland	30	1					10	1	5		8						1		4
	Italy	70		10		12	1								7	6	7	12	7		8
	Portugal	38		4		5							6	7		8			8

12 points

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

N.	Recipient nation	Voting nation
5	Sweden	Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland
4	Ireland	Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland
2	Belgium	France, Luxembourg
	Denmark	Norway, United Kingdom
	Italy	Spain, Finland
	Spain	Portugal, Turkey
1	Cyprus	Yugoslavia
	France	Netherlands

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Mary Roos	Germany	1972
Izolda Barudžija	Yugoslavia	1982 (part of Aska)

Commentators

• Sweden - Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1)
• Luxembourg - Valérie Sarn & Jacques Navadic (RTL Télévision)
• France - Léon Zitrone (Antenne 2)
• Spain - José Miguel Ullán (TVE2)
• Norway - Roald Øyen (NRK)
• United Kingdom – Terry Wogan (BBC1)
• Cyprus - Pavlos Pavlou (RIK)
• Belgium - Jacques Mercier (RTBF1), Luc Appermont (BRT TV1)
• Ireland - Gay Byrne (RTÉ1), Jimmy Greeley (RTÉ Radio 1)
• Denmark - Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV)
• Netherlands - Ivo Niehe (Nederland 1)
• Yugoslavia - Mladen Popović (TVB2), Oliver Mlakar (TVZ 2), Tomaž Terček (TVL1)
• Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS2)
• Germany - Ado Schlier (ARD Deutsches Fernsehen), Roger Horné (Deutschlandfunk)
• Turkey - Başak Doğru (TRT)
• Finland - Heikki Seppälä (YLE TV2)
• Switzerland - Bernard Thurnheer (TV DRS), Serge Moisson (TSR), Ezio Guidi (TSI)
• Italy - Antonio De Robertis (Raidue and Rai Radio 1)
• Portugal - Fialho Gouveia (RTP1)
• Iceland - (non participating country) - TBC(Sjónvarpið)

Spokespersons

• Sweden - Agneta Bolme-Börjefors
• Luxembourg - Jacques Harvey
• France - Gillette Aho
• Spain - Matilde Jarrín
• Norway - Egil Teige
• United Kingdom – Colin Berry
• Cyprus - Anna Partelidou
• Belgium - Jacques Olivier
• Ireland - John Skehan
• Denmark - Bent Henius
• Netherlands - Flip van der Schalie
• Yugoslavia - Snežana Lipkovska-Hadžinaumova
• Austria - Tilia Herold
• Germany - Kerstin Schweighöfer
• Turkey - Fatih Orbay
• Finland - Solveig Herlin
• Switzerland - Michel Stocker
• Italy - Mariolina Cannuli
• Portugal - Eládio Clímaco

National jury members

• Spain – Francisco Guardón (lab employee and photography expert), Carmen González (translator), Rafael Rullán (basketball player), Mayte Sancho (actress), Victoriano Valencia (former bullfighter and businessman), Andrés Magdaleno (actor and theatre businessman), Eva Nasarre (ballet and gymnastics teacher), Luis del Val (playwright), Carmen Garrido (public relations), Luis Fernando Abad (industrialist), Conchita Mínguez (horsewoman)