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The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 was the 34th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Lausanne, Switzerland, following Céline Dion's victory at the 1988 contest with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi". Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), the contest was held at Palais de Beaulieu on 6 May 1989 and was hosted by Swiss model Lolita Morena and journalist Jacques Deschenaux.

Eurovision Song Contest 1989
Dates
Final	6 May 1989
Host
Venue	Palais de Beaulieu Lausanne, Switzerland
Presenter(s)	Jacques Deschenaux Lolita Morena
Musical director	Benoit Kaufman
Directed by	Alain Bloch
Executive supervisor	Frank Naef
Executive producer	Raymond Zumsteg
Host broadcaster	Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR)
Opening act	"Ne partez pas sans moi" and "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" performed by Céline Dion
Interval act	Guy Tell
Website	eurovision.tv/event/lausanne-1989
Participants
Number of entries	22
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Cyprus
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1989
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points in final	Iceland
Winning song	Yugoslavia "Rock Me"
1988 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1990

Twenty-two countries took part in the contest with Cyprus returning after having been disqualified the year before.

The winner was Yugoslavia with the song "Rock Me" by Croatian band Riva. This was the only victory for Yugoslavia as a unified state.[1] As of 2022 they are still the last act to win the contest performing last.

Location

Lausanne is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and the capital and biggest city of the canton of Vaud. The city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman, or simply Le Léman).[2] It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura Mountains to its north-west. Lausanne is located 62 kilometres (38.5 miles) northeast of Geneva.

Palais de Beaulieu, a convention and exhibition centre, was chosen to host the 1989 contest. The centre includes the 1,844 seat Théâtre de Beaulieu concert, dance and theatre hall. Inaugurated in 1954, the Théâtre de Beaulieu is the biggest theatre in Switzerland. The Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Hall 6 + 7 of the Palais, to the right from the main hall and the theatre.

Contest overview

The United Kingdom's Ray Caruana, lead singer of Live Report was outspoken about coming second to what he considered a much less worthy song.[3] They had been defeated by 7 points.

Two of the performers, Nathalie Pâque and Gili Natanael were respectively 11 and 12 years old at their time of competing. Due to bad publicity surrounding their participation, the European Broadcasting Union introduced a rule stating that no performer would be allowed to take part before the year of their 16th birthday. This rule remains in place to the present day.[4]

The previous year's winner, Céline Dion, opened the show with a mimed performance of her winning song and a mimed performance of her first English-language single, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now". The song became a top ten hit in the US a year later - effectively launching her into international success.[1]

Participating countries

Conductors

Each performance (except Austria, Iceland and Germany) had a conductor who led the orchestra.[5][6] Unlike in most years and like in 1988, the conductors took their bows after each song, not before.

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Marianna Efstratiou	Greece	1987 (as a backing vocalist for Bang)
Søren Bundgaard (Backing vocal)	Denmark	1984, 1985, 1988 (as a part of Hot Eyes)

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[7][8]	Points	Place[9]
1	Italy	Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali	"Avrei voluto"	Italian	56	9
2	Israel	Gili and Galit	"Derekh Hamelekh" (דרך המלך)	Hebrew	50	12
3	Ireland	Kiev Connolly and the Missing Passengers	"The Real Me"	English	21	18
4	Netherlands	Justine Pelmelay	"Blijf zoals je bent"	Dutch	45	15
5	Turkey	Pan	"Bana Bana"	Turkish	5	21
6	Belgium	Ingeborg	"Door de wind"	Dutch	13	19
7	United Kingdom	Live Report	"Why Do I Always Get It Wrong"	English	130	2
8	Norway	Britt Synnøve Johansen	"Venners nærhet"	Norwegian	30	17
9	Portugal	Da Vinci	"Conquistador"	Portuguese	39	16
10	Sweden	Tommy Nilsson	"En dag"	Swedish	110	4
11	Luxembourg	Park Café	"Monsieur"	French	8	20
12	Denmark	Birthe Kjær	"Vi maler byen rød"	Danish	111	3
13	Austria	Thomas Forstner	"Nur ein Lied"	German	97	5
14	Finland	Anneli Saaristo	"La dolce vita"	Finnish	76	7
15	France	Nathalie Pâque	"J'ai volé la vie"	French	60	8
16	Spain	Nina	"Nacida para amar"	Spanish	88	6
17	Cyprus	Fani Polymeri and Yiannis Savvidakis	"Apopse as vrethoume" (Απόψε ας βρεθούμε)	Greek	51	11
18	Switzerland	Furbaz	"Viver senza tei"	Romansh	47	13
19	Greece	Marianna	"To diko sou asteri" (Το δικό σου αστέρι)	Greek	56	9
20	Iceland	Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson	"Það sem enginn sér"	Icelandic	0	22
21	Germany	Nino de Angelo	"Flieger"	German	46	14
22	Yugoslavia	Riva	"Rock Me"	Serbo-Croatian	137	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. There was also a change of rule in case of a tie; prior to 1989, both countries would perform their songs again until a final decision was made. However from 1989 onwards, if there was a tie at the end of the voting, the country that scored the most twelves would be declared the winner. If there was still a tie, the winner was the country that scored the most tens. And if there still was a tie after that, both countries would be declared joint winners.

Detailed voting results[10][11]

		Total score	Italy	Israel	Ireland	Netherlands	Turkey	Belgium	United Kingdom	Norway	Portugal	Sweden	Luxembourg	Denmark	Austria	Finland	France	Spain	Cyprus	Switzerland	Greece	Iceland	Germany	Yugoslavia
Contestants	Italy	56									7					10		12	6	2	4		7	8
	Israel	50	1		7	3			2			5		5		5				7		5	3	7
	Ireland	21					7	3		3			2										4	2
	Netherlands	45	10		3				3				1		4	4	7	6			1		6
	Turkey	5																1						4
	Belgium	13			5	5				2												1
	United Kingdom	130	6	7	4	7	1			12	12	10	12	1	8	6	12	10	2		2		12	6
	Norway	30		2		2	5	8				2		6			4			1
	Portugal	39					4	2		1		3	7		6	2		8			6
	Sweden	110		6				6	4	8	8		6	12	12		2	5	8	3	8	2	8	12
	Luxembourg	8															5	3
	Denmark	111	5	1	10	12	6	4	10	10	2	12	3		7	12	6					10		1
	Austria	97	12	8			3	12				7		4		1		2	10	8	12	8	5	5
	Finland	76		10	8	6	10				1	4	4		3		10	7	3					10
	France	60	3	5	6	4				5		1	8	3	5	3			7		5		2	3
	Spain	88	8				2	7	7	4			10			8	8		4	10	10		10
	Cyprus	51	2	3	1				6		6			8	2					4	7	12
	Switzerland	47	4	4		10	8		8		3			2	1							7
	Greece	56				1		1	5	6	10						1	4	12	12		4
	Iceland	0
	Germany	46	7		2			5	1		5	6		7					1	6	3	3
	Yugoslavia	137		12	12	8	12	10	12	7	4	8	5	10	10	7	3		5	5		6	1

12 points

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

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

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	Hans Leitinger [de]
Belgium	BRT TV1	Dutch: Luc Appermont	[13]
	RTBF1	French: Jacques Mercier	[14]
	BRT Radio 2	Dutch: Ann Lepère
	RTBF La Première	French: Claude Delacroix
Cyprus	RIK	Neophytos Taliotis
	RIK Deftero	Pavlos Pavlou
Denmark	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
	DR P3	Kurt Helge Andersen
Finland	YLE TV1	Heikki Harma
	YLE 2-verkko	Jake Nyman [fi] and Kati Bergman
France	Antenne 2	Lionel Cassan [fr]
	France Inter	Patrick Sabatier
Germany	Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen	Thomas Gottschalk
	NDR Radio 2	Peter Urban
Greece	ET1	Dafni Bokota
	ERA 1	Dimitris Konstantaras [el]
Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Arthúr Björgvin Bollason	[12]
Ireland	RTÉ 1	Ronan Collins and Michelle Rocca
	RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
Israel	Israeli Television	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Yigal Ravid
Italy	Rai Uno	Gabriella Carlucci [it]
	Rai Radio 2	Antonio De Robertis
Luxembourg	RTL Télévision	Valérie Sarn [fr]
	RTL	André Torrent [fr]
Netherlands	Nederland 3	Willem van Beusekom	[15]
	Radio 3	Lex Harding [nl]
Norway	NRK	John Andreassen
	NRK P2	Erik Heyerdahl [no]
Portugal	RTP1	Ana Zanatti
	RDP Antena 2	TBC
Spain	TVE 2	Tomás Fernando Flores [es]
Sweden	Kanal 1	Jacob Dahlin
	SR P3	Kent Finell and Janeric Sundquist
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Bernard Thurnheer [de]
	TSR	French: Thierry Masselot
	TSI[lower-alpha 1]	Italian: Giovanni Bertini
Turkey	TV1	Bülend Özveren
	TRT Radyo 3	Fatih Orbay
United Kingdom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[16][6]
	BBC Radio 2	Ken Bruce	[6]
Yugoslavia	TVB 1, TVZ 1	Serbo-Croatian: Oliver Mlakar
	TVL 1	Slovene: Marjeta Keršič Svetel

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	SBS TV	Unknown

See also

• Eurovision Young Dancers 1989

Note

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1989

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[ru] Евровидение-1989

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1989 — 34-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 6 мая 1989 года в городе Лозанна (Швейцария) во Дворце Больё.

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