Eurovision Song Contest 1985

Eurovision Song Contest 1985
Dates
Final	4 May 1985
Host
Venue	Scandinavium Gothenburg, Sweden
Presenter(s)	Lill Lindfors
Musical director	Curt-Eric Holmquist
Directed by	Steen Priwin
Executive supervisor	Frank Naef
Executive producer	Steen Priwin
Host broadcaster	Sveriges Television (SVT)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/gothenburg-1985
Participants
Number of entries	19
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Greece   Israel
Non-returning countries	Netherlands   Yugoslavia
Participation map      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1985
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song	Norway " La det swinge "
1984 ←  Eurovision Song Contest  → 1986

The Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was the 30th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 4 May 1985 in the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), and presented by Lill Lindfors, the contest was held in Sweden following the country's victory at the 1984 contest with the song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" by Herreys.

Nineteen countries participated in the contest; Greece and Israel returned after a one-year absence, while the Netherlands and Yugoslavia, which had participated in the previous year's event, declined to enter due to separate memorial events in those countries coinciding with the date of the contest.

The winner was Norway with the song " La det swinge ", composed and written by Rolf Løvland and performed by the group Bobbysocks!. This was Norway's first contest victory, and only the third top five placing for a country which had placed last on six previous occasions, including three times receiving nul points . With a total of 123 points, "La det swinge" remains the lowest scoring winner under the voting system used between 1975 and 2015. Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Israel rounded out the top five positions.

Location

Scandinavium , Gothenburg – host venue of the 1985 contest

The 1985 contest took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, following the country's victory at the 1984 contest with the song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" performed by Herreys. It was the second time that Sweden had hosted the event, ten years after the previous staging held in the country, when the 1975 contest was held in Stockholm. ^[1] The chosen venue was the Scandinavium , an indoor arena inaugurated in 1971, home to the Frölunda HC ice hockey team and the venue of the annual Gothenburg Horse Show. ^{[2] [3] [4]} The Scandinavium was chosen by host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) from a number of bids submitted by various Swedish cities and venues; among those known to have been considered to stage the contest were the Berwald Hall in Stockholm and the Tipshallen  [ sv ] in Jönköping. ^[5] The stadium's maximum capacity of 14,000 people was reduced to 8,000 attendees for the contest, in order to provide space for the stage and technical equipment; this still made it the largest venue and the largest assembled audience in the history of the contest up to that point. ^{[3] [6] [7]} During the week leading up to the rehearsals and the televised event, EBU and SVT held an official reception for the participating delegations, which was held on the evening of 1 May at Kronhuset . ^[6]

Participating countries

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1985 –Participation summaries by country
Austria Belgium Cyprus Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Israel Italy Luxembourg Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom

1978 contest winner Izhar Cohen represented Israel for a second time at this year's event.

Nineteen countries in total participated in the 1985 contest. Greece and Israel both returned following a one-year absence, however the Netherlands and Yugoslavia, which had competed in the previous year's contest, declined to enter in 1985 as the date of the contest coincided with memorial days in the countries, specifically the Remembrance of the Dead, and the anniversary of the death of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, respectively. ^{[2] [6]} It was the first time in the contest's history that there was no entry from the Netherlands, with the nation having previously competed in every event since its creation in 1956. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Several of the participating artists in this year's event had previously competed in past editions of the contest. Izhar Cohen, who had previously won the 1978 contest with the song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" alongside the group Alphabeta, made a second contest appearance for Israel at this event; ^[9] Hot Eyes represented Denmark for a second consecutive year; ^[10] Al Bano and Romina Power also made a second contest appearance for Italy, having previously competed for the country in 1976; ^[11] the two members of Norway's group Bobbysocks! had previously competed in the event separately, with Hanne Krogh having represented Norway in 1971, and Elisabeth Andreasson previously competing for Sweden in 1982 as a member of the group Chips; ^[12] Kikki Danielsson, who was also a member of Chips, competed in this event as a solo artist for Sweden; ^[13] the Swiss duo Mariella Farré and Pino Gasparini  [ de ] had also previously competed in the contest for Switzerland on separate entries, with Farré having competed in 1983 as a soloist, while Gasparini had been a member of the Pepe Lienhard Band which had represented Switzerland in 1977; ^{[14] [15]} Gary Lux competed for Austria in this event as a solo artist, having previously represented the country in 1983 as a member of the group Westend; ^[16] and Ireen Sheer, who had twice competed in Eurovision, for Luxembourg in 1974 and for Germany in 1978, represented Luxembourg again at this contest alongside five other artists. ^[17] Additionally, Cyprus's Lia Vissi had previously participated as backing vocalist for Greece at the contest on two separate occasions, in 1979 and 1980, the latter as a member of the group the Epikouri, and Rhonda Heath, who was a member of the group Silver Convention that had represented Germany in 1977, returned as a backing vocalist for Austria at this event. ^{[18] [19] [20]}

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 ^{[18] [21]}

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Austria	ORF	Gary Lux	"Kinder dieser Welt"	German	Geoff Bastow Mick Jackson Michael Kunze	Richard Oesterreicher
Belgium	BRT	Linda Lepomme	"Laat me nu gaan"	Dutch	Pieter Verlinden Bert Vivier	Curt-Eric Holmquist
Cyprus	CyBC	Lia Vissi	"To katalava arga" (Το κατάλαβα αργά)	Greek	Lia Vissi	Haris Andreadis
Denmark	DR	Hot Eyes	"Sku' du spørg' fra no'en"	Danish	Søren Bundgaard Keld Heick	Wolfgang Käfer
Finland	YLE	Sonja Lumme	"Eläköön elämä"	Finnish	Petri Laaksonen Veli-Pekka Lehto	Ossi Runne
France	Antenne 2	Roger Bens	"Femme dans ses rêves aussi"	French	Didier Pascalis	Michel Bernholc
Germany	BR [a]	Wind	"Für alle"	German	Hanne Haller	Rainer Pietsch
Greece	ERT	Takis Biniaris	"Miazoume" (Μοιάζουμε)	Greek	Takis Biniaris Maro Bizani	Haris Andreadis
Ireland	RTÉ	Maria Christian	"Wait Until the Weekend Comes"	English	Brendan Graham	Noel Kelehan
Israel	IBA	Izhar Cohen	"Olé, Olé" (עולה, עולה)	Hebrew	Hamutal Ben-Ze'ev Kobi Oshrat	Kobi Oshrat
Italy	RAI	Al Bano and Romina Power	"Magic, Oh Magic"	Italian	Dario Farina Michael Hofmann Cristiano Minellono	Fiorenzo Zanotti
Luxembourg	CLT	Margo, Franck Olivier, Chris Roberts, Malcolm Roberts, Ireen Sheer and Diane Solomon	"Children, Kinder, Enfants"	French	Jean-Michel Bériat Bernd Meinunger Ralph Siegel	Norbert Daum
Norway	NRK	Bobbysocks!	" La det swinge "	Norwegian	Rolf Løvland	Terje Fjærn
Portugal	RTP	Adelaide	"Penso em ti, eu sei"	Portuguese	Tózé Brito Luís Fernando Adelaide Ferreira	José Calvário
Spain	TVE	Paloma San Basilio	" La fiesta terminó "	Spanish	Juan Carlos Calderón	Juan Carlos Calderón
Sweden	SVT	Kikki Danielsson	" Bra vibrationer "	Swedish	Ingela Forsman Lasse Holm	Curt-Eric Holmquist
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Mariella Farré and Pino Gasparini	"Piano, piano"	German	Anita Kerr Trudi Müller-Bosshard	Anita Kerr
Turkey	TRT	MFÖ	"Didai didai dai"	Turkish	Mazhar Alanson Fuat Güner Özkan Uğur	Garo Mafyan
United Kingdom	BBC	Vikki	"Love Is"	English	James Kaleth Vikki Watson	John Coleman

Production and format

The Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was produced by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). Steen Priwin  [ sv ] served as executive producer and director, Ingemar Wiberg  [ sv ] served as designer, and Curt-Eric Holmquist served as musical director, leading the orchestra. ^{[2] [23]} A separate musical director could be nominated by each country to lead the orchestra during their performance, with the host musical director also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor. ^[18]

Each participating broadcaster submitted one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration and performed in the language, or one of the languages, of the country which it represented. ^{[24] [25]} A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance. ^{[24] [26]} Each entry could utilise all or part of the live orchestra and could use instrumental-only backing tracks, however any backing tracks used could only include the sound of instruments featured on stage being mimed by the performers. ^{[26] [27]}

The results of the 1985 contest were determined through the same scoring system as had first been introduced in 1975: each country awarded twelve points to its favourite entry, followed by ten points to its second favourite, and then awarded points in decreasing value from eight to one for the remaining songs which featured in the country's top ten, with countries unable to vote for their own entry. ^[28] The points awarded by each country were determined by an assembled jury of eleven individuals, who were all required to be members of the public with no connection to the music industry, with a recommendation that there should be a balance between the sexes and that half should be under 25 years old. Each jury member voted in secret and awarded between one and five votes to each participating song, excluding that from their own country and with no abstentions permitted. The votes of each member were collected following the country's performance and then tallied by the non-voting jury chairperson to determine the points to be awarded. In any cases where two or more songs in the top ten received the same number of votes, a show of hands by all jury members was used to determine the final placing. ^{[29] [30]}

Rehearsals for the participating artists began on 28 April 1985. Two technical rehearsals were conducted for each participating delegation in the week approaching the contest, with countries rehearsing in the order in which they would perform. The first rehearsals of 40 minutes were held on 29 and 30 April, followed by a press conference for each delegation and the accredited press. Each country's second rehearsals were held on 1 and 2 May and lasted 25 minutes total. Three dress rehearsals were held with all artists, two held in the afternoon and evening of 3 May and one final rehearsal in the afternoon of 4 May, with an invited audience present for the second dress rehearsal. ^[6]

Contest overview

Hanne Krogh (left) and Elisabeth Andreasson, the members of Bobbysocks!, during their Eurovision performance.

The contest was held on 4 May 1985, beginning at 21:00 (CEST) and lasting 2 hours and 46 minutes. ^{[2] [18]} The event was presented by the Swedish singer Lill Lindfors; Lindfors had previously represented Sweden in the 1966 contest, placing second alongside Svante Thuresson with the song " Nygammal vals ". ^{[6] [31]} Following the confirmation of the nineteen participating countries, a draw was held in Gothenburg on 7 December 1984 to determine the running order (R/O) of the contest. ^[6]

Lindfors opened the contest with a performance of "My Joy Is Building Bricks of Music", an English version of her song " Musik ska byggas utav glädje ", becoming the first contest presenter to perform during the contest. ^{[7] [31]} To mark the thirtieth staging of the contest, among the invited audience present was Lys Assia, the contest's first winning artist and representative for Switzerland in three consecutive contests, in 1956, 1957 and 1958. ^{[18] [32]} The interval act featured jazz guitarists Peter Almqvist and Ulf Wakenius, performing as Guitars Unlimited. ^{[33] [34]} Lindfors was also part of a memorable moment from the contest, when returning to the stage following the interval act the skirt of her outfit, designed by Christer Lindarw, got caught on the set and ripped off in an apparent wardrobe malfunction, before Lindfors unclipped the top portion of her outfit to reveal a dress; ^{[35] [7] [29]} returning to the microphone, she remarked to the audience, "I just wanted you to wake up a little." ^[36] The trophy awarded to the winning songwriter was presented by the previous year's winning artists Herreys. ^{[33] [36]}

The winner was Norway represented by the song " La det swinge ", composed and written by Rolf Løvland, and performed by Hanne Krogh and Elisabeth Andreasson as Bobbysocks!. ^{[12] [37]} It was Norway's first contest win, and marked a notable turnaround in fortune for the country, which had only placed in the top five on two previous occasions while having placed last six times, including three nul points , at the time of the event, ^{[38] [39]} a fact on which Lindfors commented as she interviewed Bobbysocks! on stage following their victory. ^[12] During the traditional winner's reprise performance, the group sung part of the winning song as its English version "Let It Swing", with the English lyrics also written by Løvland. ^{[23] [36]}

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 ^[40]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Ireland	Maria Christian	"Wait Until the Weekend Comes"	91	6
2	Finland	Sonja Lumme	"Eläköön elämä"	58	9
3	Cyprus	Lia Vissi	"To katalava arga"	15	16
4	Denmark	Hot Eyes	"Sku' du spørg' fra no'en"	41	11
5	Spain	Paloma San Basilio	" La fiesta terminó "	36	14
6	France	Roger Bens	"Femme dans ses rêves aussi"	56	10
7	Turkey	MFÖ	"Didai didai dai"	36	14
8	Belgium	Linda Lepomme	"Laat me nu gaan"	7	19
9	Portugal	Adelaide	"Penso em ti, eu sei"	9	18
10	Germany	Wind	"Für alle"	105	2
11	Israel	Izhar Cohen	"Olé, Olé"	93	5
12	Italy	Al Bano and Romina Power	"Magic, Oh Magic"	78	7
13	Norway	Bobbysocks!	" La det swinge "	123	1
14	United Kingdom	Vikki	"Love Is"	100	4
15	Switzerland	Mariella Farré and Pino Gasparini	"Piano, piano"	39	12
16	Sweden	Kikki Danielsson	" Bra vibrationer "	103	3
17	Austria	Gary Lux	"Kinder dieser Welt"	60	8
18	Luxembourg	Margo, Franck Olivier, Chris Roberts, Malcolm Roberts, Ireen Sheer and Diane Solomon	"Children, Kinder, Enfants"	37	13
19	Greece	Takis Biniaris	"Miazoume"	15	16

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson, connected to the contest venue via telephone lines and responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country. ^{[24] [41]} Known spokespersons at the 1985 contest are listed below.

•  Sweden – Agneta Bolme Börjefors ^[5]
•  United Kingdom – Colin Berry ^[29]

Detailed voting results

Jury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries. ^[29] The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in the order in which they performed, with the spokespersons announcing their country's points in English or French in ascending order. ^{[29] [36]} The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below.

Norway's victory at this contest was achieved with the lowest winning score awarded under the voting system used between 1975 and 2015. ^{[7] [29]} Although the Norwegian entry received the maximum score from eight of the voting countries, almost half of those eligible, the Norwegian entry also received only 27 points from the remaining ten countries which could vote for Norway. ^[29]

Detailed voting results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 ^{[42] [43]}

		Total score	Ireland	Finland	Cyprus	Denmark	Spain	France	Turkey	Belgium	Portugal	Germany	Israel	Italy	Norway	United Kingdom	Switzerland	Sweden	Austria	Luxembourg	Greece
Contestants	Ireland	91		1	7	3	4	3	5	8	8	4	8	12	3	3	5	7	10
	Finland	58	6		6		6		3				1	7		7	2	10			10
	Cyprus	15	1											3			3				8
	Denmark	41			3			10		3	1	6		2	6			5	5
	Spain	36	2	8	1				12		2					4				1	6
	France	56		5	4				1		3		3	10		2	4	6	3	3	12
	Turkey	36	7	2			3			1		2			1	8	12
	Belgium	7							7
	Portugal	9							2												7
	Germany	105	4	10	12	10	10	8		10	7		7		8	1		8		10
	Israel	93	8		5	4	8	12			5	7		5	10	5	7	2	7	6	2
	Italy	78		6	10	1	12	5	8	2	12		4						6	12
	Norway	123	12	4		12	1	2		12		12	12	6		12	6	12	12	7	1
	United Kingdom	100	5	7		5	5	6	10	6	6	5	2	8	7		10	4	2	8	4
	Switzerland	39		3	2	6			6	5	4	1			5			1	1	2	3
	Sweden	103	10	12		8	2	7	4	7		8	6	4	12	6	8		4	5
	Austria	60	3			7		1		4		10	10		2	10	1	3		4	5
	Luxembourg	37				2		4			10	3	5	1	4				8
	Greece	15			8		7

12 points

The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another. The winning country is shown in bold. Norway received the maximum score of 12 points from eight of the voting countries, with Italy receiving three sets of 12 points, Sweden receiving two sets, and France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Spain and Turkey each receiving one maximum score. ^{[42] [43]}

Distribution of 12 points awarded at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 ^{[42] [43]}

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
8	Norway	Austria ,   Belgium ,   Denmark ,   Germany ,   Ireland ,   Israel ,   Sweden ,   United Kingdom
3	Italy	Luxembourg ,   Portugal ,   Spain
2	Sweden	Finland ,   Norway
1	France	Greece
	Germany	Cyprus
	Ireland	Italy
	Israel	France
	Spain	Turkey
	Turkey	Switzerland

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating 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. ^[26] An estimated maximum audience of over 600 million viewers and listeners was reported in the media around the time of the contest. ^[44] 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.
Austria	ORF	FS1	Ernst Grissemann	[45] [46]
Belgium	BRT	TV1	Luc Appermont	[47] [48]
	RTBF	RTBF1, Télé 2		[49] [50]
Cyprus	CyBC	RIK, A Programma		[51] [52]
Denmark	DR	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius	[53]
Finland	YLE	TV1, Rinnakkaisohjelma  [ fi ]	Kari Lumikero  [ fi ]	[54]
France	Antenne 2		Patrice Laffont	[55]
	RFO	Second canal de RFO  [ fr ] [b]		[56]
Germany	ARD	Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen	Ado Schlier  [ de ]	[57] [58]
Greece	ERT	ERT1		[59]
Ireland	RTÉ	RTÉ 1	Linda Martin	[60]
		RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan	[61]
Israel	IBA	Israeli Television, Reshet Gimel  [ he ]		[62] [63]
Italy	RAI	Rai Due [c]	Rosanna Vaudetti	[64]
		RaiStereoUno  [ it ] [c]		[65]
Luxembourg	CLT	RTL Télévision	Valérie Sarn  [ fr ]	[50]
		RTL plus	Oliver Spiecker  [ de ]	[66]
Norway	NRK	NRK Fjernsynet	Veslemøy Kjendsli  [ no ]	[67]
		NRK P1, [d] NRK P2 [d]	Jahn Teigen and Erik Heyerdahl  [ no ]
Portugal	RTP	RTP1	Eládio Clímaco	[68] [69]
Spain	TVE	TVE 2	Antonio Gómez Mateo	[70] [71]
Sweden	SVT	TV1	Fredrik Belfrage	[72]
	RR  [ sv ]	SR P3	Jan Ellerås  [ sv ] and Rune Hallberg  [ sv ]	[73]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Bernard Thurnheer  [ de ]	[74]
		TSR	Serge Moisson  [ fr ]	[75]
		TSI		[76]
Turkey	TRT	TRT Televizyon		[77]
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[78]
	BFBS	BFBS Radio	Richard Nankivell	[18]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref.
Australia	SBS	SBS TV [e]		[79]
Czechoslovakia	ČST	ČST2 [f]		[80]
Faroe Islands	SvF [g]		Jørgen de Mylius	[81]
Greenland	KNR	KNR [h]		[82]
Iceland	RÚV	Sjónvarpið	Hinrik Bjarnason	[83]
Malaysia	TV3 [i]			[84]
Netherlands	Olympus [j]		Gerrit den Braber	[85]
Poland	TP	TP1 [k]		[86]
Romania	TVR	Programul 1 [l]		[87]

Notes

1. On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD ^[22]
2. Delayed broadcast in Martinique on 5 June 1985 at 20:26 (AST) ^[56]
3. Deferred broadcast at 22:30 (CEST) ^{[64] [65]}
4. Deferred broadcast at 22:55 (CEST) ^[67]
5. Deferred broadcast the following day at 19:30 (AEST) ^[79]
6. Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 1 June 1985 at 11:05 (CEST) ^[80]
7. Delayed broadcast on 11 May 1985 at 21:30 (WEST) ^[81]
8. Delayed broadcast on 18 May 1985 at 21:45 (WGST) ^[82]
9. Delayed broadcast on 1 June 1985 at 20:30 (MST) ^[84]
10. Deferred broadcast the following day at 10:00 (CEST) ^[85]
11. Delayed broadcast on 25 May 1985 at 20:00 (CEST) ^[86]
12. Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 25 May 1985 at 19:50 (EEST) ^[87]

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