Jonathan King - who once was Mr Eurovision - writes ...
"I thought it was a brilliant Eurovision and delicious Dima who should have beaten Lordi 2 years ago deserved to win though no songs entered were real hits this year.
"Political voting? Bollocks. When we entered a REAL hit in 1997 (my era in control) we won by the biggest margin ever.Wogan never understood the MUSIC side of it and still doesn't. A hit song by a great performer (and Dima is a special star) will win if entered."
Thank you, Jonathan. I think you should be back running Eurovision - of course, in my view, the BBC is part of the problem because it wants phonelines involved ie public voting ie shite like this year's entry. When you have a moment let us know how Vile Pervert did at Cannes.
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Well Madame, Cannes was horrid - dreadful weather, awful traffic and packed with people I didn't know (I know everyone at Midem, the music convention). But I was interviewed a lot (once next to Omar Sharif and another time within yards of Harrison Ford) and the crowds looked bemused but amused as I swept up and down Le Croisette in my red Rolls Royce blasting "there's nothing wrong with buggering boys" at maximum volume to the assembled film queens!
The movie has had over 18,000 full length online views in the 3 weeks since your kind review.
In 1997, the contest was not imbalanced by East European countries like Bosnia Herzegovina etc, all with a shared culture, who all vote for each other. Unless Mr King or anyone else wrote a song, in a language and with artists, which appealed to the eastern bloc, it would no longer be possible to win. So any comparison between 1997 and 2008 is pointless.
In 1997 we did indeed get 10 or 12 points from Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and, yes, douze points from... Russia.
I see buggering boys is doing the rounds, was out for a drink at the weekend and someone was singing it in the pub. Who would have thought!!!
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