Eurovision Song Contest 1982

The Eurovision Song Contest 1982 was the 27th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Harrogate, United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the Template:Escyr with the song "Making Your Mind Up" by Bucks Fizz. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the contest was held at the Harrogate International Centre on 24 April 1982 and was hosted by English television presenter and newsreader Jan Leeming.

Eighteen countries took part in the contest with Template:Esccnty deciding not to enter this year. Due to internal issues regarding a reform of telecommunications laws, Template:Esccnty was left without a broadcaster responsible for its participation for the first time in history.

The winner was Template:Esccnty with the song "" by Nicole. This was the first time that Germany had won the contest after having competed every year since the contest's inception. Germany received 1.61 times as many points as runner-up Template:Esccnty, which was a record under the current scoring system until Template:Escyr, when Template:Esccnty received 1.78 times as many points as Template:Esccnty. 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 "", 13 of which were for Germany.

Location

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Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate - host venue of the 1982 contest.

Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters and RHS Harlow Carr gardens. Nearby is the Yorkshire Dales national park and the Nidderdale AONB. Harrogate grew out of two smaller settlements, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate, in the 17th century. The town became known as 'The English Spa' in the Georgian Era, after its waters were discovered in the 16th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries its 'chalybeate' waters (containing iron) were a popular health treatment, and the influx of wealthy but sickly visitors contributed significantly to the wealth of the town.

The Harrogate International Centre was chosen as the host venue for the contest. The grand convention and exhibition centre opened a short time prior to the contest, and was the first big event held in the main 2000-seat auditorium. Only 50 local people would see the contest in person, with most seats filled out with delegations and civic dignitaries.

Participants

Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 1982 participants With 18 participating countries, this was the last Eurovision contest to have such a low number of entries.

Template:Esccnty was due to participate in the contest with the song "" performed by Themis Adamantidis. Although drawn to perform in position number 2, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) withdrew a few weeks before the contest. According to press reports, Greek Minister of Culture and Sports Melina Mercouri had voiced her opposition to the chosen entry as being too low in quality.

In November 1981, the French participating broadcaster, (TF1), declined to enter the Eurovision Song Contest 1982, with the head of entertainment, Pierre Bouteiller, saying, "The absence of talent and the mediocrity of the songs is where annoyance sets in. [Eurovision is] a monument to insanity [sometimes translated as "drivel"]." became the new French participating broadcaster after public outcry, entering the contest for the first time in Template:Escyr.

Several of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: Anita Skorgan had represented Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty, and had provided backing vocals Template:Esccnty; Jahn Teigen had represented Template:Esccnty; Fatima Padinha and Teresa Miguel, members of Doce, had represented Template:Esccnty as part of Gemini; Sally Ann Triplett, a member of Bardo, had represented the Template:Esccnty as part of Prima Donna. In addition, Anna Vissi representing Cyprus, had represented Template:Esccnty along with the Epikouri; and Stella Maessen representing Belgium, had represented the Template:Esccnty as part of Hearts of Soul and Template:Esccnty as part of Dream Express. Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz, who represented Template:Esccnty as part of Nazar, provided backing vocals for Turkey.

Eurovision Song Contest 1982 participants

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Template:Esc	ORF	Mess	""	German	Template:Hlist	Richard Oesterreicher
Template:Esc	RTBF	Stella	""	French	Template:Hlist	Jack Say
Template:Esc	CyBC	Anna Vissi	"" ()	Greek	Anna Vissi	Martyn Ford
Template:Esc	DR	Template:Ill	"Video-Video"	Danish	Template:Ill	Allan Botschinsky
Template:Esc	YLE	Kojo	""	Finnish	Template:Hlist	Ossi Runne
Template:Esc	BRTemplate:Efn	Nicole	""	German	Template:Hlist	Norbert Daum
Template:Esc	RTÉ	The Duskeys	"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow"	English	Sally Keating	Noel Kelehan
Template:Esc	IBA	Avi Toledano	"" ()	Hebrew	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	CLT	Template:Ill	""	French	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	NOS	Bill van Dijk	""	Dutch	Template:Hlist	Rogier van Otterloo
Template:Esc	NRK	Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan	"Adieu"	Norwegian	Template:Hlist	Sigurd Jansen
Template:Esc	RTP	Doce	""	Portuguese	Template:Hlist	Luis Duarte
Template:Esc	TVE	Template:Ill	""	Spanish	Template:Hlist	Miguel Ángel Varona
Template:Esc	SVT	Chips	""	Swedish	Template:Hlist	Anders Berglund
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Arlette Zola	""	French	Template:Hlist	Joan Amils
Template:Esc	TRT	Template:Ill	""	Turkish	Template:Hlist	Garo Mafyan
Template:Esc	BBC	Bardo	"One Step Further"	English	Simon Jefferis	Ronnie Hazlehurst
Template:Esc	JRT	Aska	"" ()	Serbo-Croatian	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill

Format

The overall costs to organize the contest was £500,000.

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 participating countries. The question was always in the language in which the respective country's song was performed, with the exception of Ireland. The Irish entry was sung in English, but the translation of the question in the map was in Irish. Then the map zoomed into Harrogate's location in Yorkshire, followed by an introduction video spotlighting the town.

This year, before the postcard of a specific country (with the exceptions of Israel, who had no commentator, and Yugoslavia, whose commentators were in their own country), the camera would zoom into the commentary box of that country's broadcaster, where the commentator/s would give a hand gesture, e.g. wave. The postcard would start with the country's flag on the screen and an excerpt of the country's national anthem (though in the case of the host country, the UK, the song played was "Land of Hope and Glory" instead of "God Save the Queen", while the Israeli postcard began with an excerpt of "Hava Nagila" instead of "Hatikvah"). The postcards themselves, utilizing state-of-the-art video technology (for its time), were a montage of footage of the artist in Harrogate town or at the International Flower Festival. Some of the postcards also incorporated footage from the preview videos submitted by each participating broadcaster; only preview videos which did not consist of a performance of the song from a national final were used. Apart the national anthem, the postcards also used either a popular song or tune from the country being shown or a song performed at previous editions of Eurovision (i.e. for the Yugoslav entry, "Jedan dan" from 1968 was used, and for Israel, the winning song "Hallelujah" by Milk and Honey from 1979 was used). After the conclusion of the video clip, Jan Leeming introduced the conductor and then the artist for each nation.

Contest overview

After coming second in the Hague in 1980 and in Dublin in 1981, Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger took the first win for Germany. The country led the voting process from start to finish, with no competing country threatening at any point. At the end of 204 available points, Germany had gained 161, with Israel finishing with 100 in second place. For the winning country, this moment was also historic because around 13 million people in West Germany were tuned in to their televisions at that exact moment.

Nicole went on to sing the reprise of her song in English, French and Dutch, as well as German. The English version (also produced by Siegel and Template:Ill) of her Eurovision winner, "A Little Peace", subsequently shot to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart.

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1982

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Template:Esc	Doce	""	32	13
2	Template:Esc	Svetlana	""	78	6
3	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Anita Skorgan	"Adieu"	40	12
4	Template:Esc	Bardo	"One Step Further"	76	7
5	Template:Esc	Neco	""	20	15
6	Template:Esc	Kojo	""	0	18
7	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	97	3
8	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	85	5
9	Template:Esc	Chips	""	67	8
10	Template:Esc	Mess	""	57	9
11	Template:Esc	Stella	""	96	4
12	Template:Esc	Lucía	""	52	10
13	Template:Esc	Brixx	"Video-Video"	5	17
14	Template:Esc	Aska	""	21	14
15	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	100	2
16	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	8	16
17	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow"	49	11
18	Template:Esc	Nicole	""	161	1

Spokespersons

Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1982 contest are listed below.

• Template:FlaguTemplate:SndSolveig Herlin
• Template:FlaguTemplate:SndJohn Skehan
• Template:FlaguTemplate:SndArne Weise
• Template:FlaguTemplate:SndBaşak Doğru
• Template:FlaguTemplate:SndColin Berry

Detailed voting results

Each participating broadcaster assembled a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs.

Detailed voting results

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rowspan="20" Template:Vert header	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

12 points

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

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
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Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.

The contest was reportedly broadcast in 31 countries, including the participating countries, Greece, Jordan, and Tunisia; and Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union via Intervision; with approximately 300 million television viewers and 200 million radio listeners following the contest. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Template:Flagu	ORF	FS2	Ernst Grissemann
Template:Flagu	RTBF	RTBF1	Jacques Mercier
		RTBF Radio 1,	Template:N/A
	BRT	TV1	Luc Appermont
Template:Flagu	CyBC	RIK	Fryni Papadopoulou and John Vickers
Template:Flagu	DR	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
Template:Flagu	YLE	TV1	Erkki Toivanen
		Template:Ill	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	ARD		Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	RTÉ 1	Larry Gogan
		RTÉ Radio 1	Pat Kenny
Template:Flagu	IBA	Israeli Television, Template:Ill	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	CLT		Jacques Navadic and Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	NOS		Pim Jacobs
Template:Flagu	NRK		Bjørn Scheele
		NRKTemplate:Efn	Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	RTP	RTP1	Fialho Gouveia
Template:Flagu	TVE	TVE 1	Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	SVT	TV1	Ulf Elfving
	Template:Ill	SR P3	Kent Finell
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	TV DRSTemplate:Efn	Template:Ill
		TSR	Template:Ill
		TSITemplate:Efn	Giovanni Bertini
Template:Flagu	TRT		Ümit Tunçağ
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC1	Terry Wogan
		BBC Radio 2Template:Efn	Ray Moore
Template:Flagu	JRT	, Template:Ill, TV Zagreb 1	Oliver Mlakar
		TV Koper-Capodistria	Template:N/A
		TV Ljubljana 1	Template:N/A

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Template:Flagu	ČST	ČST1Template:Efn	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	MTV	MTV1Template:Efn	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	RÚV	Template:Efn	Pálmi Jóhannesson
Template:Flagu	JTV	JTV2	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	TP	TP1Template:Efn	Template:N/A

External links

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