Gwendolyne

Gwendolyne was the Spanish contribution to Euro Vision Song Contest 1970 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Julio Iglesias sang this song in Spanish and wrote both the text and the music.

The ballad is about the title given reproduced Gwendolyne Bollore from Cambridge, Julio Iglesias who had met during his time as a law student and goalie in the junior team of the Spanish football club Real Madrid. His participation in the Euro Vision Song Contest in Congrescentrum Rai in Amsterdam was his first international television appearance. Iglesias had represented the starting number nine behind the Luxembourg Post Je suis tombe du ciel by David Alexandre Winter and before Dominique Dussault, the Monaco with the song Marlene.

Iglesias finished with eight points in fourth place in a field of twelve participants. After the Euro Vision Song Contest criticized Enrique Martin Garea, producer and founder of the Spanish music labels Hispavox, the tuning of Germany and Portugal: " Germany and Portugal have let us down. Had they voted for us, then Julio would have won. "

Gwendolyne reached number one in the Spanish charts. The song was recorded in Spanish, English, French, Italian and German.