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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.

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)
Opening act	"Where Is Harrogate?" film
Interval act	Pictures from Yorkshire and Castle Howard
Website	eurovision.tv/event/harrogate-1982
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	France  Greece
Participation map      Participating 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
Nul points in final	Finland
Winning song	Germany "Ein bißchen Frieden"
1981 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1983

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 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.

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.

The tradition of previous year's winners handing over the prize to current winners was not followed by Bucks Fizz, winners in 1981.

Irish band Chips lost out in their national finals, which, had they been successful, would have led to the unique situation of two bands in the same Eurovision with the same name (the other being Sweden).

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"[2] 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 were used where it was not a performance of the song from the national final. Also, some music from postcards are used either a popular song or tune from each particular country or any song perofrmed from the Eurovision (i.e. For 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.

Participating countries

There were 18 participating countries this year. No year since has had this few participants in the final of the competition.

Greece was due to participate in the contest with the song "Sarantapente kopelies" performed by Themis Adamantidis. Although drawn to perform in second place, ERT withdrew the entry a few weeks before the contest.

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.

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.[3][4]

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who conducted the orchestra.[5][6]

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
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)

Participants and results

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

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[10][11]

		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

Spokespersons

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Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1982 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

Broadcasts

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Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	FS2	Ernst Grissemann [de]
	Hitradio Ö3	Walter Richard Langer [de]
Belgium	RTBF1	French: Jacques Mercier
	BRT TV1	Dutch: Luc Appermont	[12]
	RTBF La Première	French: Marc Danval
	BRT Radio 1	Dutch: Herwig Haes
Cyprus	RIK	Fryni Papadopoulou
	RIK Deftero	Neophytos Taliotis
Denmark	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
	DR P3	Karen Thisted [dk]
Finland	YLE TV1	Erkki Toivanen
	YLE Rinnakkaisohjelma	TBC
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Ado Schlier [de]
	Deutschlandfunk/hr3	Roger Horné [de]
Ireland	RTÉ 1	Larry Gogan
	RTÉ Radio 1	Pat Kenny
Israel	Israeli Television	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Daniel Pe'er
Luxembourg	RTL Télé Luxembourg	Marylène Bergmann [fr]
	RTL	André Torrent [fr]
Netherlands	Nederland 2	Pim Jacobs	[13]
Norway	NRK	Bjørn Scheele
	NRK P1	Erik Heyerdahl [no]
Portugal	RTP1	José Fialho Gouveia
	RDP Programa 2	TBC
Spain	TVE1	Miguel de los Santos [es]
Sweden	SVT TV1	Ulf Elfving
	SR P3	Kent Finell
Switzerland	TV DRS[lower-alpha 1]	German: Theodor Haller [de]	[14]
	TSR	French: Georges Hardy [fr]	[15]
	TSI[lower-alpha 1]	Italian: Giovanni Bertini
Turkey	Ankara Television	Ümit Tunçağ
United Kingdom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[6]
	BBC Radio 2	Ray Moore	[6]
Yugoslavia	TVB 2	Serbo-Croatian: Mladen Popović
	TVZ 1	Serbo-Croatian: Oliver Mlakar
	TVL 1	Slovene: Tomaž Terček [sl]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Hong Kong	TVB Pearl (delayed broadcast on 28 April 1982)	Un­known	[16]
France	RTL	André Torrent [fr]
Greece	ERT	Mako Georgiadou [el]

Note

References

External links

• Media related to Eurovision Song Contest 1982 at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1982

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[ru] Евровидение-1982

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1982 — 27-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 24 апреля 1982 года в городе Харрогит (Великобритания) на сцене местного зала конгрессов.

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