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

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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)
Opening act	"My Joy is Building Bricks of Music" performed by Lill Lindfors
Interval act	Guitars Unlimited with Swedish Evergreens
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      Participating 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
Nul points in final	None
Winning song	Norway "La det swinge"
1984 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1986

Nineteen countries took part in the contest, with the Netherlands and Yugoslavia deciding not to participate.

The winner was Norway with the song "La det swinge" by Bobbysocks!. This was Norway's first victory in the contest, after a long period of low scores, including 3 "nul points".

Location

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Construction of the arena began in 1969 after decades of setbacks, and was inaugurated on 18 May 1971 and was the biggest feature for the city's failed bid for the 1984 Winter Olympics. At time,Scandinavium was the largest indoor venue at the world and since than is the home arena for Frölunda HC of Swedish Hockey League, and venue for the annual Göteborg Horse Show.

Format

1985 was the year when no less than thirteen previous Eurovision artists made a comeback. This also applied to the winners, Bobbysocks! who had attended once before as soloists: Hanne Krogh performed for Norway in 1971, while Elisabeth Andreasson for Sweden (where she is originally from) in 1982 in a duet, Chips, with Kikki Danielsson. Kikki herself also returned this year for host country Sweden, and was thus competing against Elisabeth Andreasson and Bobbysocks!.

The presenter was entertainer Lill Lindfors (herself a former participant in 1966), who had a wardrobe malfunction (though technically this is a misnomer, as the stunt was deliberate) as she proceeded to the stage for the voting procedure. As she walked on stage, the skirt of her dress came away, leaving her in just her underwear and the top half of her dress. After a few seconds of pretending to be shocked, Lindfors unfastened the flaps of her dress across her shoulders, to reveal a full-length white gown, to much raucous audience applause. Lill then took her seat to start calling in the votes, and nonchalantly said, "I just wanted to wake you up a little."

Lys Assia, the winner of the first ever Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, was the guest of honour of this edition. She was introduced by Lill Lindfors. The camera zoomed close to Lys, who rose to greet the audience, while the orchestra played the song "Refrain", her winning song.

The video postcards broadcast in between each song to introduce the competing nations were the first in the contest history to feature only the song writers and composers, none of the performing artists (unless they had composed their own song). All the song writers were filmed in various locations in and around Gothenburg during the week of rehearsals. Once the video concluded, hostess Lill Lindfors introduced the song, the artist and the conductor from a seat on the stage, reading from cards represented by the flag of each nation.

Host Lill Lindfors congratulated the duo, Hanne Krogh and Elisabeth Andreasson, following their victory by saying, "I must say I am honestly very happy that this happened because Norway has been last so many times that you really deserve it!" Krogh replied, "You're happy? What do you think we are?!" After an energetic reprise, the two women embraced to a standing ovation from the audience. During the reprise the last verse of the winning entry was sung in English.

Participating countries

19 countries participated in the contest. Greece and Israel returned to the contest after not participating the previous year. Meanwhile, the Netherlands did not participate in this contest, due to the national Remembrance of the Dead, while Yugoslavia did not participate due to the anniversary of the death of Josip Broz Tito. Despite this, Yugoslavia still held their annual preselection contest, which was won by "Pokora" ("Penance") (music by Ivo Pupačić and lyrics by Zvonimir Pupačić), a duet sung by Zorica Kondža and Josip Genda. However, as Yugoslavia had already withdrawn before the song won, this song therefore was never set to compete in Eurovision. Yugoslavia did, however, take part in the 1991 contest which was also held on the anniversary of Tito's death.

1985 was the last year to have less than 20 participants competing in the final of the competition.

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[1][2] 1985 was the only year to feature a conductor for multiple entries that wasn't the host conductor: Greek conductor Haris Andreadis led the orchestra for both the Cypriot and Greek entries.

Returning artists

Bold indicates a previous winner.

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Gary Lux	Austria	1983 (member of Westend), 1984 (backing vocal of Anita)
Rhonda Heath (backing singer)		1977 (member of Silver Convention for  Germany)
Lia Vissi	Cyprus	1979 (backing vocal of Elpida), 1980 (backing vocal of Anna Vissi and The Epikouri), both times for  Greece
Hot Eyes	Denmark	1984
Izhar Cohen	Israel	1978 (along with the Alphabeta)
Al Bano & Romina Power	Italy	1976
Ireen Sheer	Luxembourg	1974, 1978 (for  Germany)
Hanne Krogh (part of Bobbysocks!)	Norway	1971
Elisabeth Andreasson (part of Bobbysocks!)		1982 (for  Sweden, as part of Chips)
Kikki Danielsson	Sweden	1982 (as part of Chips)
Pino Gasparini [de]	Switzerland	1977 (part of Pepe Lienhard Band)
Mariella Farré		1983

Participants and results

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

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.

During the voting, Germany took a commanding lead in the first half, with Norway fifth place behind Germany, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom around the end of the first half of voting. Finally, with five juries left, Germany, Sweden and Norway were tightly wrapped around the pole positions with 87, 86, and 85 points respectively. At that point, Sweden briefly took the lead away from Germany (who received no points from Switzerland). Sweden was the fourth-to-last jury, conceding their brief lead by awarding Germany eight points and Norway the maximum twelve. With only three countries left to vote, Norway kept the lead, in one of the shortest winning stretches during voting in the contest's history.

Detailed voting results[6][7]

		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

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

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

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.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	FS1	Ernst Grissemann [de]
	Hitradio Ö3	Walter Richard Langer [de]
Belgium	BRT TV1	Dutch: Luc Appermont	[8]
	RTBF1	French: Jacques Mercier
	BRT Radio 2	Dutch: Paul De Meulder [nl]
	RTBF La Première	French: Jacques Olivier
Cyprus	RIK	Themis Themistokleous
	RIK Deftero	Neophytos Taliotis
Denmark	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
	DR P3	Poul Birch Eriksen [dk]
Finland	YLE TV1	Heikki Harma and Kari Lumikero [fi]	[9]
	Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi]	TBC
France	Antenne 2	Patrice Laffont
	France Inter	Julien Lepers
Germany	Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen	Ado Schlier [de]
	Deutschlandfunk/hr3	Roger Horné [de]
Greece	ERT	Mako Georgiadou [el]
	Proto Programma	Dimitris Konstantaras [el]
Ireland	RTÉ 1	Linda Martin
	RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
Israel	Israeli Television	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Daniel Pe'er
Italy	Rai Due	Rosanna Vaudetti
	Rai Radio 1	Franco Fabbri
Luxembourg	RTL Télévision	Valérie Sarn [fr]
	RTL plus	Oliver Spiecker
	RTL	André Torrent [fr]
Norway	NRK	Veslemøy Kjendsli [no]
	NRK P1	Jahn Teigen and Erik Heyerdahl [no]
Portugal	RTP1	Eládio Clímaco
Spain	TVE 2	Antonio Gómez Mateo
Sweden	TV1	Fredrik Belfrage	[9]
	SR P3	Jan Ellerås [sv] and Rune Hallberg [sv]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Bernard Thurnheer [de]
	TSR	French: Serge Moisson [fr]
	TSI	Italian: Ezio Guidi [it]
Turkey	TRT	Başak Doğru
	TRT Radyo 3	Bülent Osma
United Kingdom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[10][2]
	British Forces Radio	Richard Nankivell	[2]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	SBS TV	Unknown
Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Hinrik Bjarnason
Netherlands	Olympus TV[lower-alpha 1]	Gerrit den Braber	[11][12]
Poland	TP1	Bogusław Brelik
Yugoslavia	TVS 1	Snežana Lipkovska-Hadžinaumova (delayed broadcast)

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1985

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[ru] Евровидение-1985

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1985 — 30-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 4 мая 1985 года в городе Гётеборг (Швеция) в концертном зале «Скандинавиум».

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