eurovision 1990

all time rank: the position that the country and the song have between all the eurovision songs

chart from the game vote for the best eurovision song.

Eurovision Song Contest 1990

Dates
Final date	5 May 1990
Host
Venue	Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall,Zagreb, Croatia,Yugoslavia
Presenter(s)	Helga Vlahovic Brnobic Oliver Mlakar
Conductor	Igor Kulieric
Host broadcaster	/
Opening act	A short film “Zagreb: City of Music”
Interval act	Yugoslav Changes – a film about tourism in the country.
Participants
Number of entries	22
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Withdrawing countries	None

participating countries

History

The Eurovision Song Contest 1990, the 35th in the series, was held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia on 5 May 1990. The presenters were Helga Vlahović Brnobić and Oliver Mlakar.The fall of the European communism and the German re-unification was the main issue of the songs of the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb. The lyrics of several entries celebrated the revolution and democratisation that had occurred in central and eastern Europe in the preceding months, focusing especially on the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, such as in the Norwegian and Austrian entries.The Eurovision Song Contest 1990 was the first to implement an age rule.Toto Cutugno was the winner of this contest with the song “Insieme: 1992”. This was the second and most recent victory for Italy, the first one having been “Non ho l’età”, performed by Gigliola Cinquetti in 1964.Both the French and the Italian songs went on to be big hits in Europe and were played all summer long. Even nowadays, both songs are regarded as Eurovision evergreens.
Malta had wished to return to the contest for the first time in 15 years, but Eurovision rules prevented them from returning due to a maximum of 22 entries allowed to compete. A national final was held in Malta, which was won by Maryrose Mallia with “Our Little World of Yesterday”.
The Spanish performance was plagued by technical problems. First the backing track failed to play, then it was started too early. The delegation’s conductor completely lost control and the Spanish duo, Azúcar Moreno, left the stage. The second attempt was successful and the duo ended up in fifth place. The Belgian entrant, Philippe Lafontaine, reached the 12th place with his song Macédomienne. Afterwards, he refused to release the CD as the song was a love token for his Macedonian wife, however he did release it years later to help a refugee project in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Eurovision veteran, Serge Gainsbourg, wrote the French entry White And Black Blues performed by Joelle Ursull which was a spectacular multicultural song with lots of African drumming. It ended up sharing the second place with Ireland.
The 1990 contest was the first to feature an official mascot, called Eurocat, created by Joško Marušić. This mischievous purple cat popped up during the ‘postcards’ of each of the 22 entries, which also included travelogues of the country about to perform, in conjunction with the European Year of Tourism 1990.

#	Representing country	Performer(s)	Song title, writer(s) and composer(s)	Points	Place
01	Spain	Azúcar Moreno	Bandido	096	05
02	Greece	Christos Callow and Wave	Horis Skopo	011	19
03	Belgium	Philippe Lafontaine	Macédomienne	046	12
04	Turkey	Kayahan	Gözlerinin Hapsindeyim	021	17
05	Netherlands	Maywood	Ik Wil Alles Met Je Delen	025	15
06	Luxembourg	Céline Carzo	Quand Je Te Rêve	038	13
07	United Kingdom	Emma	Give A Little Love Back To The World	087	06
08	Iceland	Stjórnin	Eitt Lag Enn	124	04
09	Norway	Ketil Stokkan	Brandenburger Tor	008	21
10	Israel	Rita	Shara Barechovot	016	18
11	Denmark	Lonnie Devantier	Hallo Hallo	064	08
12	Switzerland	Egon Egemann	Musik Klingt In Die Welt Hinaus	051	11
13	Germany	Chris Kempers and Daniel Kovac	Frei Zu Leben	060	09
14	France	Joelle Ursull	White And Black Blues	132	02
15	Yugoslavia	Tajci	Hajde Da Ludujemo	081	07
16	Portugal	Nucha	Há Sempre Alguém	009	20
17	Ireland	Liam Reilly	Somewhere In Europe	132	02
18	Sweden	Edin-Ådahl	Som En Vind	024	16
19	Italy	Toto Cutugno	Insieme: 1992	149	01
20	Austria	Simone	Keine Mauern Mehr	058	10
21	Cyprus	Haris Anastasiou	Milas Poli	036	14
22	Finland	Beat	Fri?	008	21