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The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest and took place in Dublin, Ireland for the second year in a row, following the country's third back-to-back victory at the 1994 contest with the song "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the contest was again held at the Point Theatre which was also the venue the year before. It was held on 13 May 1995 and was presented by Irish newsreader Mary Kennedy.

Eurovision Song Contest 1995
Dates
Final	13 May 1995
Host
Venue	Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
Presenter(s)	Mary Kennedy
Musical director	Noel Kelehan
Directed by	John Comiskey
Executive supervisor	Christian Clausen
Executive producer	John McHugh
Host broadcaster	Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Opening act	Video montage commemorating the history of the Eurovision Song Contest for its 40th edition.
Interval act	"Lumen", composed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, and performed by Súilleabháin on piano, and a number of artists including Clannad, Brian Kennedy and The Monks of Glenstal Abbey, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conducted by Proinnsías Ó Duinn[citation needed]
Website	eurovision.tv/event/dublin-1995
Participants
Number of entries	23
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Belgium  Denmark  Israel  Slovenia  Turkey
Non-returning countries	Estonia  Finland  Lithuania  Netherlands  Romania  Slovakia   Switzerland
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1995
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 "Nocturne"
1994 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1996

Twenty-three countries participated in the contest seeing the return of Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Slovenia and Turkey, after being relegated from competing the previous year. Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland were relegated due to their results at the previous edition. Lithuania would not return to the contest for another four years.

The winner this year was Norway with the song "Nocturne", performed by Secret Garden, written by Petter Skavlan and composed by band member Rolf Løvland. Spain, Sweden, France and Denmark rounded out the top five, with Spain getting their first top three placing in more than a decade. Further down the table, Slovenia achieved their best result so far, finishing seventh.

Until 2021, this had remained the last time that the top three songs in the final were not performed in English.

Location

Ireland hosted the contest for the sixth time after winning the contest for a 3rd consecutive year and is the only country to have hosted multiple contests in succession; three in a row between 1993 and 1995. Dublin was again chosen to be the host city, making it the fifth time that the Eurovision Song Contest was staged in the Irish capital. For the second consecutive year, the venue for the contest was the Point Theatre located on the North Wall Quay of the River Liffey, amongst the Dublin Docklands.

After winning the 1994 contest, RTÉ was worried about whether they could afford to host a third consecutive contest in 1995. The BBC had offered to take on the responsibility of hosting the contest, and had also proposed that the contest be staged as a joint production in Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland. In the end, RTÉ decided to stage the contest on its own. However, they did inform the EBU that, should Ireland win once more, that they would not be expected to host the event for the fourth year in a row.[1]

Contest overview

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Two of Ireland's winners attended the contest: Dana, Ireland's first winner in 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", and Johnny Logan, in 1980 and 1987 ("What's Another Year?" and "Hold Me Now" respectively), and the writer of Linda Martin's 1992 winning song "Why Me?".

Heavy favourites to win the contest, according to bookmakers, were Sweden with the pop-ballad "Se på mig" and Slovenia, represented by Darja Švajger‘s entry “Prisluhni mi”. Other countries in contention for the win were Croatia, Denmark, Israel, Spain, and the eventual winner, Norway. The winning song was something new at Eurovision in that it contained only 24 words accompanied by long violin solos. The United Kingdom contributed a modern rap number, while the previous year's runner-up, Poland, went for something that completely contrasted with their début entry.

The stage was designed by Alan Farquharson who also designed the set of the 1993 contest that took place in Millstreet, Ireland. Although it was quite dark and often gloomy in appearance, it did form the basis for a spectacular opening whereby a giant screen rotated to reveal the presenter who descended a stairway which ultimately disappeared to allow for the arrow-shaped stage to come together amid fireworks. The interval act consisted of several well known Irish performers including Clannad, Brian Kennedy (who would go on to actually represent Ireland 11 years later as well as collaborate with the winning group) and was composed by leading musician Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.^{[citation needed]}

There was much speculation in Ireland as to whether RTÉ had deliberately chosen a song perceived as not having a good chance of winning in order to avoid hosting the contest for a fourth time in a row, although this was never confirmed. This rumour did, however, inspire a popular episode of Father Ted. RTÉ would end up hosting the contest once again in 1997.[2]

Participating countries

Qualification

The European Broadcasting Union decreased the number of participants to 23 to make sure the show would not last longer than three hours.[3] Countries which had missed the 1994 event were allowed to return, and of the seven countries that had been relegated following the 1993 contest Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Slovenia and Turkey made their return. Seven countries were subsequently relegated in order to make room for the returning countries, with Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland forced to sit out as the lowest-placing countries in 1994.[4][3] With Switzerland's relegation, Germany became the only country of the seven original participants from the first contest in 1956 to have competed in every edition of the contest so far.[3]

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[5][3]

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Arzu Ece	Turkey	1989 (member of Pan)
Alexandros Panayi	Cyprus	1989 (backing singer for Fani Polymeri and Yiannis Savvidakis), 1991 (backing singer for Elena Patroklou)

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[6][7]	Points	Place[8]
1	Poland	Justyna	"Sama"	Polish	15	18
2	Ireland	Eddie Friel	"Dreamin'"	English	44	14
3	Germany	Stone and Stone	"Verliebt in Dich"	German	1	23
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Davor Popović	"Dvadeset prvi vijek"	Bosnian	14	19
5	Norway	Secret Garden	"Nocturne"	Norwegian	148	1
6	Russia	Philipp Kirkorov	"Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" (Колыбельная для вулкана)	Russian	17	17
7	Iceland	Bo Halldórsson	"Núna"	Icelandic	31	15
8	Austria	Stella Jones	"Die Welt dreht sich verkehrt"	German	67	13
9	Spain	Anabel Conde	"Vuelve conmigo"	Spanish	119	2
10	Turkey	Arzu Ece	"Sev!"	Turkish	21	16
11	Croatia	Magazin and Lidija	"Nostalgija"	Croatian	91	6
12	France	Nathalie Santamaria	"Il me donne rendez-vous"	French	94	4
13	Hungary	Csaba Szigeti	"Új név egy régi ház falán"	Hungarian	3	22
14	Belgium	Frédéric Etherlinck	"La voix est libre"	French	8	20
15	United Kingdom	Love City Groove	"Love City Groove"	English	76	10
16	Portugal	Tó Cruz	"Baunilha e chocolate"	Portuguese	5	21
17	Cyprus	Alexandros Panayi	"Sti fotia" (Στη φωτιά)	Greek	79	9
18	Sweden	Jan Johansen	"Se på mej"	Swedish	100	3
19	Denmark	Aud Wilken	"Fra Mols til Skagen"	Danish	92	5
20	Slovenia	Darja Švajger	"Prisluhni mi"	Slovene	84	7
21	Israel	Liora	"Amen" (אמן)	Hebrew	81	8
22	Malta	Mike Spiteri	"Keep Me in Mind"	English	76	10
23	Greece	Elina Konstantopoulou	"Pia prosefhi" (Ποιά προσευχή)	Greek[lower-alpha 1]	68	12

Detailed voting results

Each country had a jury that awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs.

Detailed voting results[9][10]

		Total score	Poland	Ireland	Germany	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Norway	Russia	Iceland	Austria	Spain	Turkey	Croatia	France	Hungary	Belgium	United Kingdom	Portugal	Cyprus	Sweden	Denmark	Slovenia	Israel	Malta	Greece
Contestants	Poland	15					4		6						1			1							3
	Ireland	44			1	5	1	5	3		3	5		1						10	1	5			4
	Germany	1																						1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	14										3	8								3
	Norway	148	12	10	4	1		12	12		4	12		10	6	5	4	12	7		2	7	10	6	12
	Russia	17					10						6						1
	Iceland	31		6			2	3		4				2						6	8
	Austria	67	2				3				6	4		8	4	10	5	2		4	10		2		7
	Spain	119	8	2	6	8			5			8	10	7	2	12	8	7	10				12	8	6
	Turkey	21									2		5			1	2					3	1	7
	Croatia	91		3		10	7		10		12	7						4	5			12	4	12	5
	France	94	7	5	8		6		8	10		2	3		10	6	1		2	3	6	8	7		2
	Hungary	3						2			1
	Belgium	8								1	7
	United Kingdom	76	5	1		4		1		12				12	7	7		10		5	7		5
	Portugal	5												4											1
	Cyprus	79	1		3		5	4	2		5		1		12	8	3			8	5	4	6	4	8
	Sweden	100	10	12	12	2	8	6	4	8		1		3			6	8	4		12	1		3
	Denmark	92	3	7	7	3	12	10	7	7		6			3	3		6		12		6
	Slovenia	84	4	8	5	6		7	1	3			2		8		10	5	3	7			3	2	10
	Israel	81			10	7		8		6			4		5	4	12		8	2		10		5
	Malta	76		4	2	12				2	10	10	12	6			7		6	1	4
	Greece	68	6							5	8		7	5		2		3	12			2	8	10

12 points

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

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
6	Norway	Greece,  Iceland,  Poland,  Portugal,  Russia,  Turkey
3	Croatia	Malta,  Slovenia,  Spain
	Sweden	Denmark,  Germany,  Ireland
2	Denmark	Norway,  Sweden
	Malta	Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Croatia
	Spain	Belgium,  Israel
	United Kingdom	Austria,  France
1	Cyprus	Hungary
	Greece	Cyprus
	Israel	United Kingdom

Spokespersons

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The spokespersons announced the score from their respective country's national jury in running order.

Broadcasts

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Most countries sent commentators to Dublin or commented from their own country, in order to provide coverage of the contest, such as adding insight to the participants.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	ORF 1	Ernst Grissemann [de]
	FM4	Stermann & Grissemann	[11]
Belgium	RTBF1	French: Jean-Pierre Hautier
	BRTN TV1	Dutch: André Vermeulen	[12]
	RTBF La Première	French: Stéphane Dupont and Patrick Duhamel [fr]
	BRTN Radio 2	Dutch: Julien Put [nl] and Michel Follet
Bosnia and Herzegovina	TV BiH	Ismeta Dervoz-Krvavac [bs]
Croatia	HRT 1	Aleksandar "Aco" Kostadinov
	HR2	Draginja Balaš
Cyprus	RIK 1	Neophytos Taliotis
	RIK Deftero	Pavlos Pavlou
Denmark	DR TV1	Jørgen de Mylius
	DR P3	Ole Jacobsen [dk]
France	France 2	Olivier Minne
Germany	Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen	Horst Senker
	Deutschlandfunk/NDR Radio 2	Peter Urban	[13]
Greece	ET1	Dafni Bokota
	ERA 1	Giorgos Mitropoulos
Hungary	MTV2	István Vágó	[14]
Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Jakob Frímann Magnússon	[15]
Ireland	RTÉ 1	Pat Kenny
	RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
Israel	Channel 1	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Danny Rup
Malta	TVM	Enzo Gusman
Norway	NRK	Annette Groth	[16]
	NRK P1	Stein Dag Jensen [no]	[17]
Poland	TVP1	Artur Orzech
	Polskie Radio Program I	TBC
Portugal	RTP Canal 1	Ana do Carmo
Russia	ORT 1	No commentator
	Voice of Russia	Vadim Dolgachev
Slovenia	SLO1	Damjana Golavšek [sl]
Spain	La Primera	José Luis Uribarri
Sweden	Kanal 1	Pernilla Månsson and Kåge Gimtell [sv]
	SR P3	Claes-Johan Larsson and Lisa Syrén
Turkey	TRT 1	Bülend Özveren
	TRT Radyo 3	Canan Kumbasar
United Kingdom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[3]
	BBC Radio 2	Ken Bruce	[3]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	SBS TV	Unknown
Estonia	ETV	Jüri Pihel [et]
Finland	YLE TV1	Erkki Pohjanheimo and Olli Ahvenlahti
	YLE Radio Suomi	Iris Mattila and Ossi Runne
Macedonia	MTV 1	Vlado Janevski
Netherlands	Nederland 3	Paul de Leeuw	[18]
Switzerland	Schweiz 4 [de]	German: Heinz Margot	[19]
	Suisse 4 [fr]	French: Jean-Marc Richard	[20]
	Svizzera 4 [it]	Italian: Joanne Holder
Yugoslavia	RTS 3K	Mladen Popović

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Eurovision Song Contest 1995's channel on YouTube

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1995

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[ru] Евровидение-1995

Конкурс песни Евровидение-1995 — 40-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 13 мая 1995 в Дублине (Ирландия) на сцене театра «Пойнт». Поскольку Ирландия проводила два предыдущих конкурса (1993 и 1994), это был первый случай, когда страна принимает у себя Евровидение три года подряд. В этой связи BBC предлагала помощь по совместному его проведению в Белфасте, но представители ирландского вещателя решили провести мероприятие самостоятельно, заранее отказавшись принять Евровидение четвёртый год подряд в случае победы ирландского представителя.

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