A Song For Europe 1980 (Full Show) BBC

[@jamesreed1239]

1980 will live forever in me.❤

[@SallyWilliams]

Frida Lyngstad gave an example how the song HERE WE'LL STAY can be performed as a masterpiece.

[@tariqkhader1826]

Is that the track she duetted with Phil Collins?

[@TIBBSY]

The singer singing this here sounds like Cilla Black, same kind of timbre.

[@stevebbuk]

Just watching this again after so many years and wondering why we didn't see the backing singers with Maggie Moon(it happened with the UK entry for Eurovision 1984 also). If tastefully done it can really enhance the song, such as Marie Miriam in 1977.

[@Euroviking86]

Pussyfoot should've represented the UK with the awesome "I Want to Be Me" (it was evidently popular in the audience). Love how it skyrocketed into 4th place towards the close of the voting.

[@stevebbuk]

38 years ago people were still romantic enough to believe in true love..

[@steinarmogen3166]

I agree! Best by far

[@CyberSlammer2024]

Totally agree I think the problem is that the juries often vote for the song they think should go to Eurovision not the one they prefer plus maybe the juries were full of dull stuffy people who this was too heavy and punky for lol

[@martinmitchell7280]

What I find odd is that when we saw the jury members actually voting on screen - they all backed Maggie Moone. But all the ones who voted 'off screen' backed Prima Donna!

[@danielvanr.8681]

1980, and the BBC already had video link-up to the juries/spokespeople. It took another 14 years before we got it in the Eurovision. 😵😳

[@JeSuisRene]

Yes, however video link up is much easier in a country than it is across a continent.

[@arthurjohnson9982]

Tally of 12 points scored by each song: 2 - "Easy" - Plymouth, Southampton "Surrender" - Aberdeen, Glasgow 3 - "Happy Everything" - Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff "I Want to Be Me" - Belfast, Manchester, Norwich 4 - "Love Enough for Two" - Bangor, Leeds, London, Newcastle

[@igorsiuda8108]

He reffered to the Luxembourgish jury in 1966, when the host presenter said: 'Good night, London, oh, [sorry], good evening, London!' - [voice of Micheal Aspel, a british Eurovision voting jury spokeperson between 1966-68] - 'Good morning, Luxembourg!' - [host again] - 'Good morning!' (laughs). Later, the procedure of british spokeperson's reading of results took place, which looked like that: 1 point - Netherlands, 3 points - Spain, 5 points - Yugoslavia.

[@joshlevicq6823]

Right song won :-) I really enjoyed watching this as PrimaDonna's "Love enough for two" still is one of my favourite UK Eurovision entries ever (alongside Imaani's "Where are you" from 1998 and Blue's "I can" from 2011). Greetings from Germany

[@simskiefer1728]

Thanks for sharing !!!

[@FREDBO-lb6rn]

Happy Everything sung by Maggie Moone with Lyrics by Don Black was easily the BEST & most Beautiful Song ever to enter the Eurovision Arena. It should have Won the BBC Song For Europe Contest and it would have easily Won the Eurovision Song Contest 1980. Something inexplicably went wrong in the Voting at the BBC.

[@karlomorosin7880]

I know this song no. 11 "I want to be me". I probably heard it on the radio, or so, cause I never watch this show before..

[@PaulTaylor1]

30:00 You're a Native New Yorker...

[@russellbenton2987]

Happy everything should have won .

[@mclarentv]

It was decided by one person on the Manchester jury

[@kinetsievarvenfloot1237]

Broadcast only 3 weeks before the Eurovision itself.

[@Pawhlen]

The correct final score should be: Prima Donna 139 (8 from second voteround) Maggie Moone 138 (7 from second voteround)

[@MelodicRockAnthem]

There were only 14 cities voting. Prima Donna got 8 (Newcastle, Plymouth, Southampton, Bangor, London, Cardiff, Norwich and Manchester) while Maggie Moone got 6 (Aberdeen, Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow, Belfast and Bristol). Interestingly enough, it came down to Manchester again. John Mundy said their jury was 6-5 in favour of Prima Donna. If that one voter had gone the other way and flipped them to Maggie, it would have been a 7 each draw again. God only knows what they would have done then. The most number of 12s maybe? (Prima Donna would have won that 4-3). I also notice Manchester could have made it a 3 way decider after the main vote. Had they given Kim Clark the 12 instead of 10, she would have had 131 as well. I wonder how that would have affected the split decision? Frankly embarrassed that my nearest city gave Pussyfoot 1 point. What the hell, Newcastle?

[@Pawhlen]

@@MelodicRockAnthem In other words, it was a very close contest

[@seanwilson6559]

50:12 and 53:09 Mike Neville, a true North East legend!

[@robalexander8065]

Absolutely. Loved the interplay between Terry and Mike. RIP both.

[@JH-lt6hn]

Great moment at 50:15; I remember watching this as it happened between Tel and Mike Neville trying to find which way to look!

[@DONKEYOK]

Maggie was robbed..

[@ve022]

i miss the old ESC of the 60-80s.i liked best Maggie Moon song

[@treverthetree]

What an ending! Imagine if just one of the juries voted the other way though. What on Earth would they have done then???

[@AjrimmerMr]

I think Maggie Moone should have done a 'moon' at the end of her performance, she would definitely have won.

[@desireepotato9009]

I disagree Linda Cat. She should have got her nads out, LOL. Hudders on a song for Europe.

[@KevinM913]

Can’t believe there were 12 songs to choose from. Nowadays we’re lucky to get 4.

[@holydiver73]

Song 7 - If love is alive and looks and sounds like that, I wanna be dead.

[@what-uc]

In the tie-breaker It was quite confusing having song 5 end in the word "two"

[@stevebbuk]

How I miss the panache of Colin Berry..

[@MrEurominx]

Happy everything is best and I like I want to be me - that voting was crazy! Maggie would have done so well at Eurovision

[@ajs41]

Were Prima Donna singing live?

[@MrEurominx]

The UK sent a lot of groups in these days

[@stevebbuk]

They should never have closed Pebble Mill..

[@holydiver73]

I remember pebble mill at one being on every day and the open glass studio overlooking the green and the road at the far end and me and my school chums would often talk about how easy it would have been to photo bomb one of the shows and ‘moon’ at the camera. Thankfully we never did….the things kids do ey!

[@madabbafan]

They had no choice as the building had 'concrete cancer' and was becoming structurally unsafe.

[@stevebbuk]

@@madabbafan I didn't know that madabbafan, but they could have dismantled it and rebuilt on the same site.

[@MrEurominx]

Cheryls third appearance before 1981 Bucks Fizz

[@steinarmogen3166]

I Want To Be Me was best by miles. A real classic. A new wave sound would be so different and cool in ESC. Also "Easy", "Don't Throw Yur Love Away", "Surrender" etc. were good songs. An awful winner! Such an ESC-cliche

[@Keithbarber]

It's what the juries liked at the time

[@davidgoodliff4486]

That was so nearly a THREE way tie. If song 12 instead of song 11 had got that last 12 it would have been.

[@patrickcleere7635]

The voting didnt look fair on the tie when people put hands up it looked that it wasn't counted right.

[@kisbie]

I've no great interest in Eurovision but I was reading how they came up with the tie-break on the fly, as the BBC were deathly insistent that the show couldn't overrun into the news's slot on Budget day. British TV at its finest.

[@oneurope]

they didn't come up with it "on the fly" - that was the rule at the time in the main Eurovision so it makes sense in a tie it would be the same rule.

[@Massev6871]

I want to be me????? You mean I'm trying to be Toyah Wilcox!!!!

[@doggdogg6019]

Very unlikely. This was March 1980. Nobody had even heard of Toyah Wilcox then . She didn't get into the Uk charts until 1981. Lene Lovich is a more likely influence if there was any.

[@thoskel1]

5 points for Maggie from Manchester? She'd have won the Eurovision that year as it was much nicer than Johnny Logan's

[@davidspear9790]

Totally unprepared for the tie. They made a complete pig's ear of the tie break. Neither Terry or the scoreboard operators could keep up!

[@stefanosstavros6519]

Maggie Moone was by far the best.The others were all rather trashy in comparison.It is of note that it it from this year that Eurovision began to lose its prestige in the UK and although the song contest has gone onto become a "great" in European and world popular culture it has still never really reclaimed its former prestige in the UK.

[@danielroy1966]

The songs are incredibly trashy even by 1980 standards. No wonder the ESC has a horrible reputation in the UK. But anyway: Thanks a lot for uploading, Julie Ann Mulvey. These clips are "historical documentaion of entertainment", aren't they? Well - in a way.

[@stevebbuk]

Yes and good to see women of a certain age having a go and not the modern talentless coy teenage girls replete with synthesizers and their manager pimps.

[@beepboop6344]

"I Want To Be Me" stands up really well, it would probably have seemed fresh at ESC too - although the ESC jury was pretty conservative back then, so I don't know how well it would have done. The others... various shades of guilty pleasure, I guess. It's a fun show:)

[@berniedu7185]

Just don’t watch it. You are trashy yourself.