Another time, another place
Taking a wander through the back passages of YouTube can yield some rather remarkable video.
A search engine and some curiosity are a potent combination.
Ever wondered what the ESC looked like back in the day when telly was in colour, but often still in monochrome ?
Well, here’s a mini documentary on the year RTE & Ireland hosted the event for the first time.
It’s 1971 and the word is gaiety !
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For a television powered event there is remarkably little archival material of this kind.
But what there is adds another layer to the remarkable onion of Eurovision.
Remarkable onion … ?!!
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