BBC - Eurovision 1992 final - full voting & winning Ireland

Commentator: Terry Wogan (BBC One)

[@sheisveryfamous]

RIP Mia Martini. What a star! 🇮🇹

[@joaquimcaeiro2982]

This year should have been Mia's. What a beautiful song she should have won by miles.

[@barbunu4042]

Grazie Mia

[@carlopara]

no matter the final results, we will always remember you MIA. In the year wherever i went everybody were talking about RAPSODIA

[@Euroviking86]

Harald is the most disinterested Eurovision host ever.

[@terrybaker8156]

I thought he was a dream, because he made me fall asleep 😴

[@ocramm18]

Ho gioito per..ed insieme a Mia! Con lo stesso fervore come se fossimo ancora in quell' anno pur sapendo che non è ..piu' qui. Brava...e signora come sempre.

[@houssamlabiod]

Linda Martin deserved to win

[@StFidjnr]

10 points from Germany defined the result

[@petertomlinson6107]

I know I have very old fashioned taste so it is only my personal opinion. But I absolutely loved everything about Malta. Classy singer, dressed immaculately and a beautiful song. In fact, probably my favourite Eurovision entry ever. Having said that; I really liked Ireland and have no complaints. 👍

[@joaocastro2675]

Love Mia Martini,remember you forever

[@lapponia77]

The top 3 songs were the only 3 sung in English . . .

[@stevebbuk]

Greece, Portugal and Norway's juries tipped it in favour of Ireland..

[@paddynevs5885]

The start of the 3 year domination of Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@danielvanr.8681]

And to top it off, Ireland won again in 1996 and finished 2nd in 1997. 😎☘

[@cartmanskittykat2197]

Terry Wogan kept calling Linda Martin Jessica until he announced her as winner. 😂 This Eurovision will always remind me of my nan God rest her soul.

[@TheGoaBase]

France, Greece

[@sheisveryfamous]

36:21 Good old Irish singer... Jessica Martin 😂😂

[@sannev8407]

Ireland was not a bad winner at all, but my favorite was the UK

[@A.Man.From.Cyprus]

I like Contests with suspence! Congratulations to Ireland! Deserved to win! I also liked Malta, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Israel!

[@grahamnancledra7036]

A long time fan of Mia Martini - if she had won with the beautiful tender song Rhapsodia - it would have been perfect.

[@carlopara]

Mia Martini uber alles

[@esc9726]

My ranking from Turkey🇹🇷 1-🇵🇾Yugoslavia (12p) 2-🇬🇧United Kingdom (10p) 3-🇳🇴Norway (8p) 4-🇨🇾Cyprus (7p) 5-🇮🇱Israel (6p) 6-🇲🇹Malta (5p) 7-🇮🇪Ireland (4p) 8-🇬🇷Greece (3p) 9-🇵🇹Portugal (2p) 10-🇮🇸Iceland (1p) 11-🇦🇹Austria 12-🇩🇪Germany 13-🇪🇸Spain 14-🇫🇷France 15-🇮🇹Italy 16-🇫🇮Finland 17-🇩🇰Denmark 18-🇳🇱Netherlands 19-🇧🇪Belgium 20-🇱🇺Luxemburg 21-🇸🇪Sweden 22-🇨🇭Switzerland

[@ariccua6101]

26:59 "Don't tell me Colin Berry and the boys have gone home."

[@esc9726]

My votes from TURKEY SWEDEN 1 POINTS CYPRUS 2 POINTS GREECE 3 POINTS TURKEY 4 POINTS MALTA 5 POINTS IRELAND 6 POINTS UNITED KINGDOM 7 POINTS ISRAEL 8 POINTS NORWAY 10 POINTS YUGOSLAVIA 12 POINTS

[@ariccua6101]

Oh, look, Christer Björkman!

[@JBiggsofWSNC]

The UK, France, and Italy were the best.

[@JeSuisRene]

How I would have given the points 1 🇨🇾 Cyprus 2 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 3 🇫🇷 France 4 🇨🇭 Switzerland 5 🇬🇷 Greece 6 🇮🇸 Iceland 7 🇩🇰 Denmark 8 🇮🇱 Israel 10 🇮🇹 Italy 12 🇲🇹 Malta

[@SimsMoyal]

Always adored the Spanish, Always adored the Spanish full of tasteful people and music lovers 😊

[@phillipwilloughby5013]

36:20 He said "The Irish singer Jessica Martin"... her name is actually Linda Martin.

[@hxney_bee3336]

Just suprised to realize denmark was nearby

[@JeSuisRene]

Anyone know why Greece didn’t give a single point to the United Kingdom in the period 1992-1996?

[@chiriladorin-alexandru2776]

28 years ago.

[@Keithbarber]

Next year it will be 29 years, then 30 years 31 years 32 years, 100 years, 150 yea💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤

[@terrybaker8156]

15:41 Carola apar sig

[@joe_ita]

sono qui solo per soffrire malamente rivedendo l'infamata storica della giuria lussemburghese che ha dato i punti a tutta la top 10 tranne che all'italia

[@DLDRIMINAGH1]

Was a great country!

[@sarac.3568]

How long did Yugoslavia last for the eurosong competition? It fell apart in 1990

[@ocramm18]

Ero incerto..non ricordavo bene..3a..4a..Con trepidazione...ero mentalmente ..nel '' 92.. Credo che sul quel palco...sia da ricordare la sua presenza..oltre come interprete per la persona...

[@DadgeCity]

I was underwhelmed by the UK song, no points from me. This contest showed the benefit you get if you sing in English. Glad that Iceland got points from a lot of juries.

[@BaracudaFTW]

Italy was robbed

[@karolinepettersson8063]

Linda Martin, 70 år i år (2023). (Hon är född 1953, står det på Wikipedia.)

[@alijabilalovic4937]

YUGOSLAVIA IS THE BEST💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@stevebbuk]

I'm sure the Spanish convener said "Islande" twice in her voting.

[@irondasgr]

A very important Greek composer in one of his interviews revealed that he had some contacts with another important Turk one so that the 2 countries could promote their fragile relationship through the voting procedure by going against all odds and vote for each other (plus to fight back against the Nordic block voting which had already started to show its threatening face) . That meant that they had on each part to influence the juries in doing so. The Turks accomplished that (since they had already been in the right spot from 1988 when they gave their first ever points to Greece) yet the Greeks obviously were not ready yet (not until 1997) and this exposed in personal level the Greek composer to the Turkish side for the zero points that were finally awarded. And as he said both sides were up to the last minute so sure that this would have been the right moment.... A fun fact is that I would have marked the Turkish song high not because of a weird agreement but because I quite much like it. 12 Yugoslavia 10 Austria 8 Italy 7 Denmark 6 Turkey 5 Norway 4 Ireland 3 Israel 2 Portugal 1 Netherlands One thing I never got to understand is how this Greek song of ours got to be liked by the Europeans since we had never heard it before that night and trust me we came to listen to it never again. Only ESC fans in Greece know now that it's ever existed.

[@billos-xpalavos3771]

is the voting that you show you personal preference? Who was the Greek composer? what's his name? thanks

[@irondasgr]

@@billos-xpalavos3771 Yes, those are my votes. Even though the source for the composer information is one of his interviews, I'd like not to reproduce his name myself. It's an obvious shot though (for the ESC matters).

[@terrybaker8156]

That was naughty of Lydia to tell Eileen Dunne that Ireland was in the lead

[@johny7even]

Who is Eileen Dunne?

[@Euroviking86]

@@johny7even The Irish spokesperson.

[@filipcarpentier860]

I do recall that Linda Martin sang Why me and indeed why the hell did this dreadful song ever won. Italy and Greece were so much better

[@michelski3528]

Dreadful song in YOUR opinion, not the juries’. So suck it up 💅🏼

[@seanwilson6559]

36:16 who's Jessica Martin? God I miss Terry

[@alandavison327]

I know!! A very talented musical theatre performer, writer and illustrator, in her prime in the 90's but has continued to have a career in later life. Funny though.

[@some.random.baldie2111]

Malta's jury were obviously voting tactically with their 8 and 10 points to the nil pointers...Iceland was a wtf too...12 to Switzerland.

[@JeSuisRene]

They often did that during the '90. Remember "Yugoslavia, 1 point" in 1991, and "Luxembourg, 10 points" in 1993. Not just the 90's but I am pretty sure that in 2007 they needed to use the backup jury, who gave 12 points to the UK as a protest against voting blocks.

[@andredermondbar1137]

If look at other Votings you would see that Malta votes very oftern different from rest. I don´t think ist tactically. How the Jury should know how the rest of Europe has voted. So maybe thier taste is just different :P

[@Botafogoplayground]

@@andredermondbar1137 I agree!

[@thetruth9494]

Had Malta voted tactically it wouldn't have given points to the UK or Ireland which were its real competitors.

[@hundoria6744]

Icelandd

[@Martin9476]

Jesus! Look at that scoreboard... no Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Moldova...yep, those were the days when the Eurovision Song Contest was great!

[@mzaklanc4371]

you sayin that when these countries joined eurovision it was not as good as it should be m8?

[@MaltaPwn]

Hello? Neighbour voting... They vote for each other! That's upsetting.

[@holydiver73]

Martin Stone agreed. The Eastern Bloc has ruined Eurovision. They already had their own version wity Intervision and they should have kept it going.

[@amare135]

It's better now though

[@SimsMoyal]

Intervision ended in 1981

[@jasonmahon5667]

Jessica martin?????

[@martinkelly2332]

Terry Wogan Been An Irishman Should Have Known Another Irish Woman's Name her name is Linda Martin Not Jessica Martin...He Seems To Forget He's Full Bread Irish

[@damolive3150]

Before Eurovision went silly

[@abstractionart3736]

Yugoslavia deserves the win. Hower, political situation was not so good.

[@version736ha2]

Michael Ball was robbed

[@jakeoregan1184]

Jimmy N13 everyone has an opinion,no one was “robbed”

[@cinzanobianco1]

Not robbed at all he was 2nd best end of story.

[@alandavison327]

I was disappointed he didn't win. He left it all out there on stage and it was a good song. A close contest in 1992. Four or five countries could have won it had votes varied slightly.

[@version736ha2]

@@jakeoregan1184 nonsense

[@version736ha2]

@@cinzanobianco1 Michael should have won and been crowned winner.

[@maryosullivan3754]

I hope lreland win

[@oiooi6460]

Did Yugoslavia hate the UK? They screwed it for us so many times.

[@mladennikolic2734]

You always blame someone else for your failures... that's so badly

[@JBYification]

malta was the winner

[@stevebbuk]

What a lot of hype for the Maltese song, and have the false knockers returned in 2017..

[@cinzanobianco1]

No it only came 3rd.

[@johny7even]

Malta had nothing to do even in the top 5. Criminally overrated

[@thetruth9494]

True

[@Scoutt8]

Ahahahha music tournement?! swh* einstein was here

[@skroutzy]

"Why her"? Greece was the real winner. One of the worst winners ever

[@jakeoregan1184]

Anastasia Mch boohoo,you do realise you’re complaining about something that happened 15 years ago?No one cares

[@BritneyHIAM]

Greece had the worst Eurovision ever that year. Ireland was brilliant and one of the most deserving winners ever. The only thing wrong with the votes was that Greece didn't get 0

[@cinzanobianco1]

Greece wasn't good enough simple as that

[@mercurytaylormaydeacon9980]

Anastasia Mch they didn’t win just get over it this was ages ago

[@yuleeshalev1583]

If by "Greece" you mean Cyprus then I agree with you

[@tobyrose6906]

Best part of Eurovision. Was the scoring. But as Usual. The Commenting. Terry Wogan had to interrupt. Same as these days, another Irish. Person from Republic of Ireland but claiming to be British Commentary unbelievable rude.

[@JeSuisRene]

Terry Wogan was commentating for the British public via the BBC so he would obviously have to support the British. Regardless, he said nice things about the Irish entry throughout.

[@juarezneto55]

One of the weakest years ever to be honest. Anyone from my 91's top 11 would've been my winner here. Ireland was a deserving winner though, but Switzerland touched me a little bit more. 1. Switzerland 2. Ireland 3. Italy 4. Cyprus 5. Greece 6. Spain 7. Malta 8. Yugoslavia 9. United Kingdom 10. Iceland 11. Portugal 12. France 13. Austria 14. Belgium 15. Turkey 16. Luxembourg 17. Israel 18. Finland 19. Sweden 20. Norway 21. Denmark 22. Germany 23. The Netherlands

[@pathalpin9112]

Look, I'm sorry but I think Ireland deserved the win.

[@pathalpin9112]

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[@Keithbarber]

Your opinion counts for nothing all these years later, and you cannot change the judges decisions

[@alandavison327]

I would have to disagree. Some very good songs that year - Italy, Malta, UK, Ireland

[@yuleeshalev1583]

Dreadful winner that closes a dreadful year. At least Cyprus and Italy were there to save the day

[@vladyslavkovalenko4454]

Christer Björkman winner jajaja

[@yaniva.7626]

Definitely one of the least interesting Eurovision of the 90's. The English speaking countries will never have the success they had back then.

[@Botafogoplayground]

Instead I think it was one of the best ESC editions with some good songs: Israel, Netherlands, Iceland, Cyprus, Portugal, Greece, Sweden.

[@josedamiangonzalez-barros7242]

@DanBdx68 I listen to it quite often. It was my 7 points that year... ;-)

[@holydiver73]

Yes, the eastern bloc ex commie countries have ruined Eurovision with their awful political and bloc voting. They should be chucked out so we can have proper Eurovisions again.

[@vatroslavmarkus24]

This was one of the weakest ESC editions, in my opinion. Very dreadful.

[@johny7even]

Can't compare it to the 99 edition where ALL songs except CRO were so bad

[@Botafogoplayground]

Not at all.