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The Eurovision Song Contest 1984, the 29th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the 1983 contest with the song "Si la vie est cadeau" by Corinne Hermes. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster RTL Télévision (RTL), the contest was held at the Théâtre Municipal on 5 May 1984 and was hosted by Luxembourgish multimedia Désirée Nosbusch, who was only 19 years at the date, making her the youngest presenter in adult Eurovision history.

Eurovision Song Contest 1984
Dates
Final	5 May 1984
Host
Venue	Théâtre Municipal Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Presenter(s)	Désirée Nosbusch
Musical director	Pierre Cao
Directed by	René Steichen
Executive supervisor	Frank Naef
Executive producer	Ray van Cant
Host broadcaster	RTL Télévision (RTL)
Opening act	In an introductory video, Pierre Cao and the RTL orchestra performed instrumental versions of all the past Eurovision winners from Luxembourg and L'amour est bleu, one of Luxembourg's most popular entries.
Interval act	Prague Theatre of Illuminated Drawings
Website	eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1984
Participants
Number of entries	19
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Ireland
Non-returning countries	Greece  Israel
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1984
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points in final	None
Winning song	Sweden "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley"
1983 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1985

Nineteen countries took part in the contest. Israel did not enter due to it conflicting with the country's Yom HaZikaron holiday again. Greece was also absent. On the other hand, Ireland, who had not participated the previous year, returned this year. Iceland was also going to participate for the first time but withdrew due to lack of financial support.[1]

The winner was Sweden with the song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" performed by Herreys. This was the first winning song in Swedish, as ABBA had performed "Waterloo" in English when they won in 1974. Richard and Louis Herrey became the first teenage males to win Eurovision and as of 2022^[update] remain the youngest ever adult Eurovision male winners, being 19 years and 260 days and 18 years and 184 days of age respectively.[2]

Location

Luxembourg City is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg. The city contains the historic Luxembourg Castle, established by the Franks in the Early Middle Ages, around which a settlement developed.

The Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, inaugurated in 1964 as the Théâtre Municipal de la Ville de Luxembourg, became the venue for the 1984 contest. It is the city's major venue for drama, opera and ballet.[3][4] It also hosted the 1973 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Format

Roland de Groot, who had also designed the set for the 1970, 1976 and 1980 contests, returned with a stage concept similar to that contests, using translucent panels of varying shapes suspended above the stage and operated on a pully system of ropes, with color changes for each panel to create unique backdrops for each entry. Unusually, the live orchestra was not seen on camera, being positioned slightly under the stage itself in a traditional orchestra pit, out of sight of the cameras.

The presentation by Désirée Nosbusch, a Luxembourg native working and living in the USA, made her at 19 years-of-age the youngest ever host of the competition. She hosted the show in a lax manner, which was quite unusual for the show at the time. Her style was also unusual in that rather than making announcements in multiple languages, she instead switched between English, French, German and Luxembourgish mid-sentences, not finishing any of her announcements in a single language.

The postcards in between each song were of a similar concept to those first devised for the 1979 competition and featured mime artists virtually visiting each of the participant nations. The actors, known collectively as "The Tourists" were superimposed into animated representations of the tourist attractions of each country, with the combined use of animated and real props, all created using the Chroma-Key process.

1984 is also notable for the audible booing that could be heard from the audience, particularly at the end of the UK's performance. It was said that the booing was due to English football hooligans having rioted in Luxembourg in November 1983 after failing to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship.

Participating countries

Nineteen participating countries competed this year. Israel did not enter due to it conflicting with the country's Yom HaZikaron holiday again. Greece was also absent. Ireland, who had not participated the previous year, returned this year. Iceland was also going to participate for the first time but withdrew due to lack of financial support.[5]

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[6][7]

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Mary Roos	Germany	1972
Kit Rolfe (part of Belle and the Devotions)	United Kingdom	1983 (backing singer)
Izolda Barudžija (part of Vlado & Isolda)	Yugoslavia	1982 (part of Aska), 1983 (part of Danijel's back vocals)
Gary Lux (backing singer for Anita)	Austria	1983 (as member of Westend)

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[8][9]	Points	Place[10]
1	Sweden	Herreys	"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley"	Swedish	145	1
2	Luxembourg	Sophie Carle	"100% d'amour"	French	39	10
3	France	Annick Thoumazeau	"Autant d'amoureux que d'étoiles"	French	61	8
4	Spain	Bravo	"Lady, Lady"	Spanish[lower-alpha 1]	106	3
5	Norway	Dollie de Luxe	"Lenge leve livet"	Norwegian	29	17
6	United Kingdom	Belle and the Devotions	"Love Games"	English	63	7
7	Cyprus	Andy Paul	"Anna Maria Lena" (Άννα Μαρία Λένα)	Greek	31	15
8	Belgium	Jacques Zegers	"Avanti la vie"	French[lower-alpha 2]	70	5
9	Ireland	Linda Martin	"Terminal 3"	English	137	2
10	Denmark	Hot Eyes	"Det' lige det"	Danish	101	4
11	Netherlands	Maribelle	"Ik hou van jou"	Dutch	34	13
12	Yugoslavia	Vlado and Isolda	"Ciao, amore"	Serbo-Croatian[lower-alpha 2]	26	18
13	Austria	Anita	"Einfach weg"	German	5	19
14	Germany	Mary Roos	"Aufrecht geh'n"	German	34	13
15	Turkey	Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra	"Halay"	Turkish	37	12
16	Finland	Kirka	"Hengaillaan"	Finnish	46	9
17	Switzerland	Rainy Day	"Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?"	German	30	16
18	Italy	Alice and Franco Battiato	"I treni di Tozeur"	Italian[lower-alpha 3]	70	5
19	Portugal	Maria Guinot	"Silêncio e tanta gente"	Portuguese	38	11

Detailed voting results

Each country had a jury that awarded one to eight, 10 and 12 points for their top ten songs.

At the close of the penultimate jury's votes, there was only a difference of six points between Sweden and Ireland, at 141 and 135 respectively. However, Yugoslavia was the only country who had not given any points to Ireland, and Portugal, the last jury, gave them only two points, crushing their chances. Portugal's voting also cost Denmark, who had been holding at a strong third position, even leading the scoreboard for a short time, a potential victory, when Portugal's 12 lifted Spain from 94 to 106 points. Portugal at the same time had only given Denmark one point making Denmark's total 101 points. Despite this, this was the latter country's best position in over 20 years.

Detailed voting results[11][12]

		Total score	Sweden	Luxembourg	France	Spain	Norway	United Kingdom	Cyprus	Belgium	Ireland	Denmark	Netherlands	Yugoslavia	Austria	Germany	Turkey	Finland	Switzerland	Italy	Portugal
Contestants	Sweden	145		6	6	4	10	7	12	7	12	12	10	4	12	12	3	8	10	6	4
	Luxembourg	39				7			7		5	5		8			4			3
	France	61	2				2	6	3	10			12		8				4	7	7
	Spain	106	10	8	10		6	4	6	3	7	7	2	2	6		12		3	8	12
	Norway	29	8	7						1	3					2		6	2
	United Kingdom	63	3	1		3	8		2	2	8	1	4	1	2	7	1	4		10	6
	Cyprus	31	4		1						4	10		12
	Belgium	70		12	12	2	3						8		3	4	5	10		1	10
	Ireland	137	12	5	3	10	4	8	10	12		3	7		10	10	10	7	12	12	2
	Denmark	101	5	3	8	6	12	12	5	8	10		3	6	4	5	2	5	1	5	1
	Netherlands	34		2	7	8		1			6			5					5
	Yugoslavia	26			2			3	8							3	8	2
	Austria	5									1	4
	Germany	34			4		7	2		6		2	5		1					2	5
	Turkey	37	6					5		4	2		1	10				3	6
	Finland	46	7		5	1	5		4			6		3	5	1	6				3
	Switzerland	30	1					10	1	5		8						1		4
	Italy	70		10		12	1								7	6	7	12	7		8
	Portugal	38		4		5							6	7		8			8

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
5	Sweden	Austria,  Cyprus,  Denmark,  Germany,  Ireland
4	Ireland	Belgium,  Italy,  Sweden,  Switzerland
2	Belgium	France,  Luxembourg
	Denmark	Norway,  United Kingdom
	Italy	Spain,  Finland
	Spain	Portugal,  Turkey
1	Cyprus	Yugoslavia
	France	Netherlands

Spokespersons

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Each country announced their votes in the order of performance. The following is a list of spokespersons who announced the votes for their respective country.

Broadcasts

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National broadcasters were able to send a commentary team to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. According to host Désirée Nosbusch, thirty countries broadcast the 1984 contest.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	FS2	Ernst Grissemann [de]
Belgium	RTBF1	French: Jacques Mercier
	BRT TV1	Dutch: Luc Appermont	[14]
Cyprus	RIK	Pavlos Pavlou
Denmark	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
Finland	YLE TV1	Heikki Seppälä [fi]	[15][16]
	Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi]	Jaakko Salonoja [fi]
France	Antenne 2	Léon Zitrone
Germany	Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen	Ado Schlier [de]
	Deutschlandfunk	Roger Horné [de]
Ireland	RTÉ 1	Gay Byrne
	RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
Italy	Rai Due	Antonio De Robertis
	Rai Radio 1
Luxembourg	RTL Télévision	Valérie Sarn [fr] and Jacques Navadic
	RTL plus	Helmut Thoma [de] and Karlchen [de]
Netherlands	Nederland 1	Ivo Niehe	[17]
Norway	NRK	Roald Øyen
Portugal	RTP1	Fialho Gouveia
Spain	TVE 2	José-Miguel Ullán
Sweden	TV1	Fredrik Belfrage	[15]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Bernard Thurnheer [de]
	TSR[lower-alpha 4]	French: Serge Moisson [fr]
	TSI[lower-alpha 4]	Italian: Ezio Guidi [it]
Turkey	TRT	Başak Doğru
United Kingdom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[18][7]
	British Forces Radio	Richard Nankivell	[7]
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)
Australia	Network 0–28	Unknown
Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Unknown
Israel	Israeli Television	No commentator (delayed broadcast)

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1984

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[ru] Евровидение-1984

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1984 — 29-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 5 мая 1984 года в городе Люксембург (Люксембург) в муниципальном Гран-театре.

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