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21
2012
JOYEurovision tackles the Draw
Yesterday, the allocation draw for held in Baku. It is indeed a song contest, but just like a race, what ...
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19
2012
Will Love Set The UK Aflame ?
It's out, in a somewhat dark 3/4 time and has strong echoes of the man in black. The United Kingdom has ...
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9
2012
Special Report: Preview to Melodifestivalen 2012 Final
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Melodifestivalen, literally "the melody festival," but it's so much more, especially to Eurovision fans. It's ...
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8
2012
Special Report: The Netherlands
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] You could call it much ado about a headdress. 21 year old Joan Franka's ...
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7
2012
Special Report: How do you solve a problem like Engelbert?
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] He's been on everybody's lips since he was announced as the UK's entrant this ...
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2
2012
Special report: ESC’s healing powers
Eurovision first saw the light of day less than a decade after the guns fell silent in Europe. The continent lay ...
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29
2012
Special Report: Auntie’s quandary – UK in 2012
First the numbers: 3, 26, 16, 22, 19, 22, 25, 5, 25, 11. If they reflected the annual standings of a ...
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28
2012
JOYEurovision talks to Ronnie Tober
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] We had the great honour to talk to Eurovision and singing legend Ronnie Tober. In ...
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4
2012
Special Report: Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1975-1979
In part one we saw how the Salazar regime used Eurovision as a propaganda tool to promote itself and its ...
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3
2012
Special Report: Portugal at Eurovision in the 1960s & 1970s
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Last year's Portuguese entry "A Luta e alegria" ("the struggle is happiness") was a comical allusion ...
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