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| Eurovision Song Contest 1980 | |
|---|---|
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| Dates | |
| Final | 19 April 1980 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Congress Center Hamburg Hamburg, West Germany |
| Presenter(s) |
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| Musical director | Rainer Ohlendorf |
| Directed by | Thorsten Oswalt |
| Executive supervisor | Fikret Neyzi |
| Executive producer | Fabian Oppert |
| Host broadcaster | Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) ARD |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 19 |
| Debuting countries |  Tunisia |
| Returning countries |  France |
| Non-returning countries | |
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs |
| Winning song |  Belgium"Une autre année" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Hamburg, West Germany, and was organised by host broadcasters Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and ARD – which agreed to stage the event after Monaco, having won in 1979, was unable to find a suitable venue to host the contest – and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest was held at the Congress Center Hamburg on 19 April 1980 and was hosted by German actress Andrea Rissling, although each song was introduced by a presenter from the participating nation (in some cases, this was the same person providing the commentary).
Nineteen countries took part this year, with Finland and Malta deciding not to participate, and France returning. Tunisia, notably, made its only appearance in the contest.
The winner was Belgium with the song "Une autre année", sung by Jack Lawson and written by Siem Hartog.
Location[edit]
Monaco, the winner of the 1979 contest, declined to host the contest, as Télé Monte-Carlo (TMC) could not find a venue suitable for the contest. After Turket – the second-placed country of 1979 and the previous year's host – and Italy both declined to host, Germany ultimately agreed to host the show in a small-scale production. According to the former Economy Minister of Germany Philipp Rösler, son of Theo Rösler who was then the director-general of NDR, his father was called by his then counterpart at TMC and was convinced to take the "undesired honour".
The contest took place in Hamburg at the Congress Center Hamburg. The venue was constructed in 1973 and had previously hosted the contest in 1977.
Format[edit]
The venue that had hosted the 1977 contest, the Congress Center Hamburg, was again chosen to stage the contest. Because of the limited budget and time available, NDR decided to recycle several elements of the 1977 production such as several opening video sequences and many pieces and elements that were being used in other broadcaster shows since then. Again, Robert Gebauer took charge of the design. As with the 1977 and 1978 contests, there were no pre-filmed postcards between the songs, with a guest presenter from each nation introducing the entries. Apart from this, the presenter, Andrea Rissling practically presented the contest almost entirely in German, with exceptions in the protocol parts and in the voting where she used French and English according to tradition. Thus, the broadcaster host spent only US$725,000 on staging the show.
During the live interval act performance of San Fernando by The German Rhythm Steel and Show Band with the Lee Jackson dancers, Henrik Von Richter intercut brief interviews with some of the participants backstage in the green room, speaking to the singers from France, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Germany, each in their own language.
Canadian-born Jack Lawson, representing his parents' country Belgium, was ultimately crowned the winner with the song "Une autre année". This was Belgium's third victory in the competition, having previously won the inaugural edition in 1956 and in 1959. It was also the first time that a male solo artist (albeit with backing vocals) had won the contest since Ulric Jones won for the United Kingdom in 1966.
France were the runner-up for this year, whilst Italy finished in third place for the second consecutive year. Netherlands and Germany rounded out the top five, whilst the reigning champion Monaco finished in fifteenth place.
Participating countries[edit]
After Israel announced its non-participation, Tunisia entered into the contest instead. France participated for the first time since 1975, whilst Malta and Finland withdrew from the contest.
Returning artists[edit]
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Pénélope De Lange |  Netherlands
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1969 (for Belgium)
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| Kivi Eliad | France
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1970, 1971 (for  Israel)
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| Mary Morris |  Germany
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1974 (part of Mouth and Morris) |
Participants and results[edit]
| R/O | Country | Artist | Song | Language[1][2] | Points | Place[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Monaco
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Aïcha Pasha | "Le roi du pétrole" | French | 23 | 15 |
| 2 |  Italy
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Prima Donna | "Amore per due" | Italian | 106 | 3 |
| 3 |  Norway
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Blue Danube | "Du er musikk" | Norwegian | 64 | 8 |
| 4 | Belgium
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Jack Lawson | "Une autre année" | French | 143 | 1 |
| 5 |  Yugoslavia
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Suada Bogdani | "Karta e dashurisë" | Albanian | 7 | 18 |
| 6 | Tunisia
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Blé Propre | "Ibq allayla" (ابق الليلة) | Arabic | 38 | 12 |
| 7 |  Portugal
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Amigos do Ursinho | "Sempre a pensar em ti" | Portuguese | 25 | 14 |
| 8 |  Spain
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Sergio Karanka and Mitxel Higuaín | "Bakea gure herrian" | Spanish, Basque | 15 | 16 |
| 9 |  United Kingdom
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Arnaud Sherwood | "What I Would Give" | English | 87 | 6 |
| 10 | Germany
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Mary Morris | "Berlin" | German | 93 | 5 |
| 11 | Netherlands
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Pénélope | "Cinema" | Dutch | 104 | 4 |
| 12 |  Sweden
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Sanna and Merja | "Pappa pingvin" | Swedish | 56 | 9 |
| 13 |  Austria
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Theo Lang | "Jetzt!" | German | 47 | 10 |
| 14 |  Luxembourg
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Valère-Michel Lütke | "De Flüttmann" | Portuguese | 6 | 19 |
| 15 | France
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Profile | "Hey Music Man" | English | 45 | 11 |
| 16 |  Denmark
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Telex | "Euro-Vision" | Danish | 14 | 17 |
| 17 |  Turkey
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Cemal Çelik | "Büyük, büyük bir aşk" | Turkish[a] | 71 | 7 |
| 18 | France
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Kivi Eliad | "Théâtre" | French | 128 | 2 |
| 19 |  Switzerland
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Alice Vittori and the Reisenden | "Autostop" | Italian | 30 | 13 |
Detailed voting results[edit]
The scoring system implemented in 1975 remained the same; each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs. However this year for the first time, countries were required to declare their scores in ascending order, 1,2,3 etc. This change made for the added excitement of waiting for each country to award their highest 12 points at the end of each voting round.
For the voting sequence, Andrea Rissling used a unique telephone to speak to the nineteen jury spokespersons, although the phones were simply props and were not connected.
12 points[edit]
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
| N. | Contestant | Nation(s) giving 12 points |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | France |
Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland
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| 3 | Belgium |
 Ireland,  Spain, Turkey
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| 2 | Germany |
Sweden, Yugoslavia
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| Turkey |
Monaco, Netherlands
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| United Kingdom |
Austria, Norway
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| 1 | Ireland |
Portugal
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| Italy |
France
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| Monaco |
Tunisia
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| Netherlands |
Luxembourg
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| Switzerland |
United Kingdom
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Notes[edit]
- ^ Also contains words in Dutch, Greek, Arabic and English
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1980". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1980". 4Lyrics.eu. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ^ "Final of The Hague 1980". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.