- This article is about the Belgian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1980. For the article on the contest itself, see Eurovision Song Contest.
Euro-Vision was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, performed in French by Telex. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on April 19, 1980 in The Hague.
The song was performed nineteenth on the night (following Spain's Trigo Limpio with Quédate Esta Noche). Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. At the close of voting, it had received 14 points, placing 17th in a field of 19.
The song has become known as one of the landmarks of the Contest, as it was the first entry ever to mention the Contest by name as part of what is generally agreed to have been a send-up of the whole event (previous entries such as Schmetterlinge's Boom Boom Boomerang had parodied the Contest without actually naming it). "Boom Boom Boomerang" was the Austrian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in German (with some lyrics in English Further, in contrast to the upbeat and generally living entries submitted from other entrants, Telex performed from behind synthesisers and in a robotic - somewhat Kraftwerk-esque - manner. Kraftwerk (ˈkʁaftvɛɐk German for " power plant " or " Power station " is an influential Electronic music band from
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the song remains controversial among fans. One school of thought is that, much as in the musical mainstream, robotic techno beats were still ahead of their time at the Contest. Another school of thought is that the time to send the entire institution up has still not arrived.
It was succeeded as Belgian representative in the 1981 Contest by Emly Starr singing Samson. Belgium is a founding member of the Eurovision Song Contest. Since 1956, they participated 50 times and were only absent in 1994, 1997 and The Eurovision Song Contest 1981 was the 26th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on April 4, 1981 at the Simmonscourt Pavilion of the Royal Samson was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981, performed in Dutch by Emly Starr.
A similarly controversial song, sending up the process of Eurovision, was entered by Lithuania in 2006, when LT United performed We Are The Winners, which repeatedly used the lyrics "We are the winners, of Eurovision . Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, held at the OAKA Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on the LT United is a six-piece alternative - pop musical group created in 2006 for the sole purpose of representing Lithuania in the "We Are the Winners" was the 2006 entry into the Eurovision Song Contest for Lithuania, sung by Lithuanian all-star group LT United . . So you've got to vote, vote, vote, vote, vote for the winners". This song joined an exclusive group of Eurovision songs to be booed by the live audience, but managed to reach 6th place in the final results.
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