Eurovision Song Contest 1982

Eurovision Song Contest 1982
Dates
Final	24 April 1982
Host
Venue	Harrogate International Centre Harrogate, United Kingdom
Presenter(s)	Jan Leeming
Musical director	Ronnie Hazlehurst
Directed by	Michael Hurll
Executive supervisor	Frank Naef
Executive producer	Michael Hurll
Host broadcaster	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/harrogate-1982
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	France   Greece
Participation map      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1982
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song	Germany " Ein bißchen Frieden "
1981 ←  Eurovision Song Contest  → 1983

The Eurovision Song Contest 1982 was the 27th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Harrogate, United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the 1981 contest 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 TV presenter and newsreader Jan Leeming.

Eighteen countries took part in the contest with Greece deciding not to enter this year. Due the downsizing of their national broadcasters, France lost the rights to participating at the contest and so was also forced to withdraw.

The winner was Germany with the song " Ein bißchen Frieden " 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 Israel, which was a record under the current scoring system until 2009, when Norway received 1.78 times as many points as Iceland. 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 "Ein bißchen Frieden", 13 of which were for Germany.

Location

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. ^[1] The grand convention and exhibition centre opened short time prior to the contest, and was the first big event held in the main 2000-seat auditorium.

Participating countries

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

With 18 participating countries, this was the last Eurovision contest to have such a low number of entries.

Greece was due to participate in the contest with the song "Sarantapente kopelies" performed by Themis Adamantidis. Although drawn to perform in position number 2, 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. ^[2]

In November 1981, France's national broadcaster, TF1, declined to enter the Eurovision Song Contest for 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"]." Antenne 2 became the new broadcaster for Eurovision after public outcry, returning the country to the contest in 1983.

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Austria	ORF	Mess	"Sonntag"	German	Rudolf Leve Michael Scheickl	Richard Oesterreicher
Belgium	RTBF	Stella	"Si tu aimes ma musique"	French	Fred Bekky Bobott Rony Brack	Jack Say
Cyprus	CyBC	Anna Vissi	"Mono i agapi" (Μόνο η αγάπη)	Greek	Anna Vissi	Martyn Ford
Denmark	DR	Brixx	"Video-Video"	Danish	Jens Brixtofte	Allan Botschinsky
Finland	YLE	Kojo	"Nuku pommiin"	Finnish	Juice Leskinen Jim Pembroke	Ossi Runne
Germany	BR [lower-alpha 1]	Nicole	" Ein bißchen Frieden "	German	Bernd Meinunger Ralph Siegel	Norbert Daum
Ireland	RTÉ	The Duskeys	"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow"	English	Sally Keating	Noel Kelehan
Israel	IBA	Avi Toledano	"Hora" (הורה)	Hebrew	Yoram Taharlev Avi Toledano	Silvio Nanssi Brandes
Luxembourg	CLT	Svetlana	"Cours après le temps"	French	Cyril Assous Michel Jouveaux	Jean Claudric
Netherlands	NOS	Bill van Dijk	"Jij en ik"	Dutch	Dick Bakker Liselore Gerritsen	Rogier van Otterloo
Norway	NRK	Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan	"Adieu"	Norwegian	Herodes Falsk Jahn Teigen	Sigurd Jansen
Portugal	RTP	Doce	"Bem bom"	Portuguese	Pedro Brito Tozé Brito António Avelar de Pinho	Luis Duarte
Spain	TVE	Lucía	"Él"	Spanish	Paco Cepero Ignacio Román	Miguel Ángel Varona
Sweden	SVT	Chips	" Dag efter dag "	Swedish	Monica Forsberg Lasse Holm	Anders Berglund
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Arlette Zola	"Amour on t'aime"	French	Pierre Alain Alain Morisod	Joan Amils
Turkey	TRT	Neco	"Hani?"	Turkish	Faik Tuğsuz Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz	Garo Mafyan
United Kingdom	BBC	Bardo	"One Step Further"	English	Simon Jefferis	Ronnie Hazlehurst
Yugoslavia	JRT	Aska	"Halo, halo" (Хало, хало)	Serbo-Croatian	Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić Miro Zec	Zvonimir Skerl

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Stella Maessen	Belgium	1970 (for   Netherlands , as part of Hearts of Soul), 1977 (as part of Dream Express)
Anita Skorgan	Norway	1977, 1979, 1981 (as backing vocalist for Finn Kalvik)
Jahn Teigen	Norway	1978
Fatima Padinha (as part of Doce)	Portugal	1978 (as part of Gemini)
Teresa Miguel (as part of Doce)	Portugal	1978 (as part of Gemini)
Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz (as backing singer for Neco)	Turkey	1978 (as part of Nazar)
Anna Vissi	Cyprus	1980 (for   Greece , along with the Epikouri)
Sally Ann Triplett (as part of Bardo)	United Kingdom	1980 (as part of Prima Donna)

Format

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 various 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 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" ^[8] 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 organization, the first time the contest had utilised the clips in the broadcast. Only the preview videos which did not consist of a performance of the song from the national final were used. Also, postcards 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

Germany had the advantage of performing last. After coming second in The Hague in 1980 and second in Dublin in 1981, Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger took the first win for Germany. The winner, Nicole, beat the nearest competition by 61 points and over 13 million West Germans watched her victory on television. Germany was the commanding leader for nearly the entire voting process.

Nicole went on to sing the reprise of her song in English, French and Dutch, as well as German, to the delight of the invited audience in Harrogate Conference Centre who stood up to applaud her. The English version (also produced by Siegel and Robert Jung  [ de ]) of her Eurovision winner, A Little Peace, subsequently shot to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart. ^{[9] [10]}

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 ^[11]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Portugal	Doce	"Bem bom"	32	13
2	Luxembourg	Svetlana	"Cours après le temps"	78	6
3	Norway	Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan	"Adieu"	40	12
4	United Kingdom	Bardo	"One Step Further"	76	7
5	Turkey	Neco	"Hani?"	20	15
6	Finland	Kojo	"Nuku pommiin"	0	18
7	Switzerland	Arlette Zola	"Amour on t'aime"	97	3
8	Cyprus	Anna Vissi	"Mono i agapi"	85	5
9	Sweden	Chips	" Dag efter dag "	67	8
10	Austria	Mess	"Sonntag"	57	9
11	Belgium	Stella	"Si tu aimes ma musique"	96	4
12	Spain	Lucía	"Él"	52	10
13	Denmark	Brixx	"Video-Video"	5	17
14	Yugoslavia	Aska	"Halo, halo"	21	14
15	Israel	Avi Toledano	"Hora"	100	2
16	Netherlands	Bill van Dijk	"Jij en ik"	8	16
17	Ireland	The Duskeys	"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow"	49	11
18	Germany	Nicole	" Ein bißchen Frieden "	161	1

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1982 contest are listed below.

•  Sweden – Arne Weise ^[12]
•  Turkey –Başak Doğru ^[13]
•  United Kingdom – Colin Berry ^[4]

Detailed voting results

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

Detailed voting results ^{[14] [15]}

		Total score	Portugal	Luxembourg	Norway	United Kingdom	Turkey	Finland	Switzerland	Cyprus	Sweden	Austria	Belgium	Spain	Denmark	Yugoslavia	Israel	Netherlands	Ireland	Germany
Contestants	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
9	Germany	Cyprus ,   Denmark ,   Ireland ,   Israel ,   Portugal ,   Spain ,    Switzerland ,   Turkey ,   Yugoslavia
2	Cyprus	Netherlands ,   Norway
	Israel	Finland ,   Germany
	Switzerland	Belgium ,   United Kingdom
	United Kingdom	Austria ,   Luxembourg
1	Yugoslavia	Sweden

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. ^[16] 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)
Austria	ORF	FS2	Ernst Grissemann	[17] [18]
Belgium	RTBF	RTBF1	Jacques Mercier	[19] [20] [21]
	BRT	TV1	Luc Appermont	[20] [21]
Cyprus	CyBC	RIK		[22]
Denmark	DR	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius	[19]
Finland	YLE	TV1	Erkki Toivanen	[19] [23]
		Rinnakkaisohjelma  [ fi ]
Germany	ARD	Deutsches Fernsehen	Ado Schlier  [ de ]	[17] [21] [24]
Ireland	RTÉ	RTÉ 1	Larry Gogan	[19] [25]
		RTÉ Radio 1	Pat Kenny	[26]
Israel	IBA	Israeli Television		[27]
		Reshet Bet  [ he ]		[28]
Luxembourg	CLT	RTL Télé-Luxembourg	Marylène Bergmann  [ fr ]	[19] [20]
Netherlands	NOS	Nederland 2	Pim Jacobs	[21]
Norway	NRK	NRK Fjernsynet	Bjørn Scheele	[29]
		NRK [lower-alpha 2]	Erik Heyerdahl  [ no ]
Portugal	RTP	RTP1	Fialho Gouveia	[19] [30]
Spain	TVE	TVE 1	Miguel de los Santos  [ es ]	[31] [32]
Sweden	SVT	TV1	Ulf Elfving	[12] [29]
	RR  [ sv ]	SR P3	Kent Finell
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TV DRS [lower-alpha 3]	Theodor Haller  [ de ]	[17] [19] [33]
		TSR	Georges Hardy  [ fr ]
		TSI [lower-alpha 3]	Giovanni Bertini
Turkey	TRT	TRT Televizyon	Ümit Tunçağ	[34] [35]
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[4] [36] [37]
		BBC Radio 2	Ray Moore
Yugoslavia	JRT	TV Beograd 1		[38] [39] [40] [41]
		TV Koper-Capodistria
		TV Ljubljana 1  [ sl ]
		TV Zagreb 1

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Czechoslovakia	ČST	ČST1 [lower-alpha 4]		[42]
Hungary	MTV	MTV1 [lower-alpha 5]		[43]
Iceland	RÚV	Sjónvarpið [lower-alpha 6]	Pálmi Jóhannesson	[44]

Notes

1. On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD ^[7]
2. Deferred broadcast at 22:40 CEST (20:40 UTC) ^[29]
3. Broadcast through a second audio programme on TSR ^[33]
4. Delayed broadcast on 21 May 1982 at 22:00 CEST (20:00 UTC) ^[42]
5. Delayed broadcast on 15 May 1982 at 21:10 CEST (19:10 UTC) ^[43]
6. Delayed broadcast on 30 April 1982 at 22:10 WET (22:10 UTC) ^[44]

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External links

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