Eurovision Song Contest 1973

The Eurovision Song Contest 1973 was the 18th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the Template:Escyr with the song "Après toi" by Vicky Leandros. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (CLT), the contest was held at the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} on 7 April 1973 and was hosted by German television presenter Helga Guitton.

Seventeen countries took part in the contest this year, with Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty deciding not to participate, and Template:Esccnty competing for the first time.

In a back-to-back victory, Template:Esccnty won the contest again with the song "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" by Anne-Marie David. The voting was a very close one, with Template:Esccnty with "Eres tú" by Mocedades finishing only 4 votes behind and the Template:Esccnty with "Power to All Our Friends" by Cliff Richard (who had come second in Template:Escyr just behind Spain) another 2 votes further back. The winning song scored the highest score ever achieved in Eurovision under any voting format until 1975, recording 129 votes out of a possible 160, which represented almost 81% of the possible maximum. This was partly due to a scoring system which guaranteed all countries at least two votes from each country.<ref>O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History. Carlton Books. Template:ISBN April 2010</ref>

Location

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Luxembourg City is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg. The city contains the historic Luxembourg Castle, established by the Franks in the Early Middle Ages, around which a settlement developed.

The {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, inaugurated in 1964 as the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, became the venue for the 1973 contest. It is the city's major venue for drama, opera and ballet.<ref>"The "Grand Théâtre" of Luxembourg City offers high quality cultural events" Template:Webarchive, Luxembourg National Tourist Office, London. Retrieved 27 December 2010.</ref><ref name="theatreinfo">"Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg" Template:Webarchive, Théâtre Info Luxembourg. Template:In lang Retrieved 27 December 2010.</ref>

Participants

Template:Further Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 1973 participants Seventeen nations took part in this year's contest. Template:Esccnty participated for the first time, while Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty decided against participating. Malta had originally being drawn to perform in sixth position between Norway and Monaco, however the Maltese broadcaster withdrew before the deadline to select an entry.<ref name=Roxburgh>Template:Cite book</ref>

Several of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: Marion Rung had represented Template:Esccnty, Cliff Richard had represented the Template:Esccnty, and Massimo Ranieri had represented Template:Esccnty.

The language rule forcing countries to enter songs sung in any of their national languages was dropped this year, so performers from some countries sang in English.

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Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Template:Esc	BRT	Nicole and Hugo	"Baby Baby"	Dutch	Template:Hlist	Francis Bay
Template:Esc	YLE	Marion Rung	"Tom Tom Tom"	English	Template:Hlist	Ossi Runne
Template:Esc	ORTF	Martine Clémenceau	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	HRTemplate:Efn	Gitte	lang}}"	German	Template:Hlist	Günther-Eric Thöner
Template:Esc	RTÉ	Maxi	"Do I Dream"	English	Template:Hlist	Colman Pearce
Template:Esc	IBA	Ilanit	lang}}" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	Hebrew	Template:Hlist	Nurit Hirsh
Template:Esc	RAI	Massimo Ranieri	lang}}"	Italian	Template:Hlist	Enrico Polito
Template:Esc	CLT	Anne-Marie David	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Pierre Cao
Template:Esc	TMC	Marie	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Jean-Claude Vannier
Template:Esc	NOS	Ben Cramer	lang}}"	Dutch	Pierre Kartner	Harry van Hoof
Template:Esc	NRK	Bendik Singers	"It's Just a Game"	English, French	Template:Hlist	Carsten Klouman
Template:Esc	RTP	Fernando Tordo	lang}}"	Portuguese	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	TVE	Mocedades	lang}}"	Spanish	Juan Carlos Calderón	Juan Carlos Calderón
Template:Esc	SR	The Nova	"You're Summer"	English	Template:Hlist	Monica Dominique
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Patrick Juvet	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Hervé Roy
Template:Esc	BBC	Cliff Richard	"Power to All Our Friends"	English	Template:Hlist	David Mackay
Template:Esc	JRT	Zdravko Čolić	lang}}" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	Serbo-Croatian	Kemal Monteno	Template:Ill

Contest overview

In light of the events that had happened during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, there were fears of a terrorist threat, particularly directed against Israel's first-ever entrant, leading to unusually tight security for the contest. This gave rise to one of the best-known Eurovision anecdotes, frequently recounted by the BBC's long-serving commentator Terry Wogan. He recalled that the floor manager strongly advised the audience to remain seated while applauding the performances, otherwise they risked being shot by security forces.<ref>O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007 Template:ISBN</ref>

This contest holds the record for the most watched Eurovision Song Contest in the United Kingdom, and is also the 18th most watched television show there, with an estimated 21.54 million tuning in on the evening. The song "Power to All Our Friends" performed by Cliff Richard represented the Template:Esccnty, finising 3rd with 123 votes. The winner though was "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" performed by Anne-Marie David.

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Template:Abbr	Country	Artist	Song	Votes	Place
1	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Tom Tom Tom"	93	6
2	Template:Esc	Nicole and Hugo	"Baby Baby"	58	17
3	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	80	10
4	Template:Esc	Gitte	lang}}"	85	8
5	Template:Esc	Bendik Singers	"It's Just a Game"	89	7
6	Template:Esc	Marie	lang}}"	85	8
7	Template:Esc	Mocedades	lang}}"	125	2
8	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	79	12
9	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	65	15
10	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	74	13
11	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	129	1
12	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"You're Summer"	94	5
13	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	69	14
14	Template:Esc	Maxi	"Do I Dream"	80	10
15	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Power to All Our Friends"	123	3
16	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	65	15
17	Template:Esc	Ilanit	lang}}"	97	4

Detailed voting results

Each participating broadcaster appointed two jury members, one aged between 16 and 25 and one aged between 26 and 55, with at least 10 years between their ages. They each scored each song between 1 to 5 (other than the song from their own country) immediately after it was performed and the scores were collected and counted as soon as they were cast. All jury members were located at Villa Louvigny CLT studios, watched the show on television from there, and appeared on screen to confirm their scores after all songs were performed.

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rowspan="17" Template:Vert header	Finland	93		9	5	6	6	5	6	6	7	2	6	7	5	5	9	4	5
Belgium	58	4		3	4	3	6	6	4	4	2	4	2	3	4	5	2	2
Portugal	80	4	6		5	5	4	8	8	6	3	4	2	5	4	5	6	5
Germany	85	2	5	6		4	5	9	7	4	3	7	6	5	6	5	7	4
Norway	89	8	5	5	6		7	6	7	6	5	7	3	3	3	3	6	9
Monaco	85	6	3	2	4	3		6	5	9	8	6	4	5	6	9	5	4
Spain	125	3	8	9	9	4	9		8	9	10	8	7	10	10	4	9	8
Switzerland	79	4	3	3	4	7	5	7		6	4	6	3	8	7	7	2	3
Yugoslavia	65	5	3	3	4	2	5	8	6		2	4	2	4	5	4	4	4
Italy	74	2	5	3	5	5	5	5	7	5		5	5	4	4	5	5	4
Luxembourg	129	6	6	8	7	8	7	6	10	9	9		8	9	8	10	10	8
Sweden	94	8	4	4	5	8	5	7	9	6	5	6		6	5	7	4	5
Netherlands	69	4	4	2	5	5	4	5	5	5	4	7	3		5	3	6	2
Ireland	80	3	7	2	4	6	6	7	5	5	5	6	5	6		5	4	4
United Kingdom	123	9	6	6	7	7	8	4	8	8	5	10	9	10	9		8	9
France	65	4	3	2	4	4	5	5	4	7	2	3	5	5	5	5		2
Israel	97	6	6	5	7	5	7	4	6	7	7	8	6	6	7	5	5

10 votes

Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.

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Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Algeria, Austria, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey; in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union via Intervision; and the Middle Eastern countries and Japan, with an estimated global audience of 400 million.<ref name="Roxburgh" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The contest was reportedly broadcast via radio in countries including Ireland, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	BRT	BRT, BRT 1	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	RTB	RTB	Paule Herreman	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
		RTB 1	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	YLE	TV1	Template:N/A	<ref name="HS">Template:Cite news</ref>
		lang}}	Template:Ill
		lang}}	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	ORTF	lang}}	Pierre Tchernia	<ref name="Luxemburger" />
Template:Flagu	ARD	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	RTÉ	Mike Murphy	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>
		RTÉ Radio	Liam Devally	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>
Template:Flagu	IBA	Israeli Television	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RAI	lang}}	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	CLT	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref name="Luxemburger">Template:Cite news</ref>
		Template:Ill	Raym	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
		Radio Luxembourg	Template:N/A	<ref name="Limburgs" />
Template:Flagu	NOS	lang}}	Pim Jacobs	<ref name="Limburgs">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	NRK	lang}}, NRKTemplate:Efn	John Andreassen	<ref name="Norsk">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTP	lang}}	Artur Agostinho	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TVE	TVE 1	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	RNE	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Centro Emisor del Atlántico	Template:N/A	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Template:Ill	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	SER	Template:Ill	rowspan="5" Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Radio LéridaTemplate:Efn	<ref name="Lleida">Template:Cite news</ref>
		Radio San Sebastián	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Radio Zaragoza	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	SR	TV1	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		SR P3	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Template:Ill	<ref name="Schweiz">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
		TSR	Template:Ill
		TSI	Template:N/A	<ref name="RTSI">Template:Cite news</ref>
		DRS 1Template:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Radio2">Template:Cite news</ref>
		RSR 1	Robert Burnier	<ref name="Radio">Template:Cite news</ref>
		Radio Monte Ceneri	Template:N/A	<ref name="RTSI"/>
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC1	Terry Wogan	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
		BBC Radio 2Template:Efn	Pete Murray	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
	BFBS	BFBS Radio	Richard Astbury	<ref name="Roxburgh" />
Template:Flagu	JRT	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref name="Serbia">Template:Cite news</ref>
		TV Koper-Capodistria	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		TV Ljubljana 1	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		TV SkopjeTemplate:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Serbia" />
		TV Zagreb 1	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	ORF	FS2	Ernst Grissemann	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	ČST	ČST2	J. Šrámek	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	EIRT	EIRT	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	MTV	MTVTemplate:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Hungary">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	RÚV	lang}}Template:Efn	Jón O. Edwald	<ref name="Iceland">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	MBA	MTS, National Network	Victor Aquilina	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TeleCuraçaoTemplate:Efn		Template:N/A	<ref name="Curaçao">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Curaçao2">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TVR	lang}}Template:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Romania">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TRT	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

External links

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