Eurovision Song Contest 1980
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The 25th Euro Vision Song Contest was held on 19 April 1980 at The Hague, after the previous year's winner of the IBA, Israel had seen unable to host the event for the second time in a row. Since the entrant Dutch NOS the discharge date on April 19, stipulated in 1980 with the Israeli Memorial Day Yom Hazikaron coincided, Israel also declined to participate. 1980 is the last time the event occurred, that the host country is not the country of the previous year's winner to date ( 2013).
Special
Winner was the Irishman Johnny Logan What's Another Year? Katja Ebstein theater ago from Germany. But Switzerland was satisfied with the result, Paola and Cinema occupied 4th place, you're music of Blue Danube from Austria were ranked number 8
In addition, Morocco took part for the first and only time, but without success. Bitakat raised by Samira Bensaid, which was next to last, for a long time was the only Arabic song in the history of the ESC. Only at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2009 Israel participated with a title that also had an Arabic-speaking part alongside an English and Hebrew part. For this, the Representative of Luxembourg, Papa reached a high cult status pingouin by Sophie & Magaly. The song by Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger, which also authored the German contribution, came in at number 9
In the subsequent points proclamation there was a change: As of this year, from one country points awarded were in ascending value of the points themselves (1, 2, 3, ... 12) read, while the votes were announced after the startup sequence in previous years ( 1979, for example: Italy 8 points, Ireland 5 points ... )
Placements
Scoring
* The table is vertically arranged according to the appearance order, horizontally to the chronological point Ever reading.
Map
- Participating countries
- Countries that had already participated in a previous ESC, but not in 1980