Eurovision Song Contest 1990
35th Eurovision Song Contest | |
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date | May 5th 1990 |
Host country | Yugoslavia |
venue | Koncertna dvorana Vatroslava Lisinskog , Zagreb |
Broadcasting television station | JRT |
Moderation | Oliver Mlakar and Helga Vlahović |
Pause filler | “Alternating Yugoslavia” - tourist film |
participating countries | 22nd |
winner | Italy |
Voting rule | In each country a jury awards 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to the ten best songs. |
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The 35th Eurovision Song Contest took place on May 5, 1990 in the Vatroslav Lisinski Hall in Zagreb (now Croatia ). Italy won it with the song Insieme: 1992, written and performed by Toto Cutugno .
particularities
For Germany, the duo Chris Kempers and Daniel Kovac took part with the title Free to Live , which, although highly favored, landed in 9th place. This was followed by the song No more walls by Simone from Austria, which had to qualify through a back door, as the actual winner had already competed in the German qualification in 1987. These two titles were only two of many that at least hinted at the fall of the wall or the collapse of the Eastern bloc regime. Norway, Ireland and the winner Italy also dealt with political issues. Switzerland came with Egon Egemann and music sounds out into the world in 11th place behind Germany and Austria.
Allegedly, shortly before the contest, the moderators threatened to cancel due to disagreements with Yugoslav television. There were a few mishaps during the broadcast: Car number 1 from Spain had to start twice because on the first attempt only the rhythm playback was played, but the conductor could not hear anything. The Italian jury responded with “jury espagnol”. During the victory lecture, there was chaos in the auditorium as journalists piled on top of the audience to grab a photo.
Belgium representative Philippe Lafontaine originally did not want to publish his song Macédomienne, a homage to his wife from Macedonia, commercially, so that for a long time there was only a promotional edition of vinyl singles limited to 500 copies and the title was the only Eurovision contribution from 1990 to the one in Scandinavia published year sampler is missing. In view of the war in Yugoslavia, Lafontaine was ready to make the song available for a benefit CD single in 1994.
Attendees
All participants from last year took part again this year, so that again 22 countries were at the start. The following performers returned to the competition:
country | Interpreter | Previous year of participation |
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Italy | Pepel in Kri (backing singer for Toto Cutugno ) | 1975 for Yugoslavia |
Norway | Ketil Stokkan | 1986 |
Voting procedure
In each country there was an eleven-member jury, which initially determined the ten best songs internally. Then the individual juries awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to these ten best songs.
Placements
space | Start number | country | Interpreter | Title (M = music; T = text) |
language | translation | Points |
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1. | 19th | Italy | Toto Cutugno |
Insieme: 1992 M / T: Salvatore Cutugno |
Italian a. | Together: 1992 | 149 |
2. | 14th | France | Joëlle Ursull |
White and Black Blues M: Georges Ougier de Moussac; T: Serge Gainsbourg |
French b. | White and black blues | 132 |
3. | 17th | Ireland | Liam Reilly |
Somewhere in Europe M / T: Liam Reilly |
English | Somewhere in Europe | 132 |
4th | 8th | Iceland | Stjórnin |
Eitt lay enn M: Hörður G. Ólafsson; T: Aðalsteinn Ásberg Sigurðsson |
Icelandic | One more song | 124 |
5. | 1 | Spain | Azúcar Moreno |
Bandido M: Raúl Orellana, Jaime Stinus; T: José Luis Abel |
Spanish | bandit | 96 |
6th | 7th | United Kingdom | Emma |
Give a Little Love Back to the World M / T: Paul Curtis |
English | Give a little love back to the world | 87 |
7th | 15th | Yugoslavia | Tajči |
Hajde da ludujemo M: Zrinko Tutić; T: Alka Vuica |
Croatian | Let's go crazy | 81 |
8th. | 11 | Denmark | Lonnie Devantier |
Hello - Hello M: John Hatting, Torben Lendager; T: Keld Heick |
Danish | Hello Hello | 64 |
9. | 13 | BR Germany | Chris Kempers and Daniel Kovac |
Live Free M: Ralph Siegel ; T: Michael Kunze |
German | - | 60 |
10. | 20th | Austria | Simone |
No more walls M: Marc Berry, Nanna Berry; T: Mario Botazzi |
German c. | - | 58 |
11. | 12 | Switzerland | Egon Egemann |
Music sounds out into the world M / T: Cornelia Lackner |
German | - | 51 |
12. | 3 | Belgium | Philippe Lafontaine |
Macédomienne M / T: Philippe Lafontaine |
French | My Macedonian | 46 |
13. | 6th | Luxembourg | Celine Carzo |
Quand je te rêve M: Jean-Charles France; T: Thierry Delianis |
French | When i dream of you | 38 |
14th | 21st | Cyprus |
Haris Anastasiou Χάρης Αναστασίου |
Milas poli (Μιλάς πολύ) M: John Vickers; T: Haris Anastasiou |
Greek | You are talking too much | 36 |
15th | 5 | Netherlands | Maywood |
Ik wil alles met je delen M / T: Alice May |
Dutch | I want to share everything with you | 25th |
16. | 18th | Sweden | Edin-Ådahl |
Som en vind M / T: Mikael Wendt |
Swedish | Like a wind | 24 |
17th | 4th | Turkey | Kayahan |
Gözlerin hapsindeyim M / T: Kayahan Açar |
Turkish | Trapped in your eyes | 21st |
18th | 10 | Israel |
Rita ריטה |
Shara barchovot (שרה ברחובות) M: Rami Kleinstein; T: Tzruya Lahav |
Hebrew | Singing in the streets | 16 |
19th | 2 | Greece |
Christos Callow and Wave Χρίστος Καλλόου και Wave |
Horis skopo (Χωρίς σκοπό) M: Yiorgos Palaiokastritis; T: Yiorgos Papayanakis |
Greek | Without an excuse | 11 |
20th | 16 | Portugal | Nucha |
Há semper alguém M: Luís Filipe, Ian van Dijck; T: Frederico Pereira, Francisco Pereira |
Portuguese | There is always someone there | 9 |
21st | 22nd | Finland | Beat |
Fri? M: Kim Engblom, Tina Krause, Janne Engblom; T: Stina Engblom |
Swedish 1 | Free? | 8th |
21st | 9 | Norway | Ketil Stokkan |
Brandenburg Gate M / T: Ketil Stokkan |
Norwegian | - | 8th |
Scoring
* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.
Statistics of the twelve-point allocation
number | country | received from |
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6th | France | Finland, Iceland, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland |
3 | Italy | Ireland, Spain, Cyprus |
2 | Ireland | Austria, Sweden |
Iceland | Portugal, United Kingdom | |
Yugoslavia | Israel, Turkey | |
Switzerland | Denmark, Greece | |
1 | BR Germany | Luxembourg |
Luxembourg | France | |
Austria | Italy | |
Spain | Germany | |
United Kingdom | Belgium |