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Published to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest, this is the official, the first and the definitive history of the annual event that is now a global phenomenon. The fun and the feuds, the high points, the dismal lows, the scandals, the most outrageous outfits, the innovators and the copy cats, this glorious book captures the singular flavour of Eurovision, charting its journey from the first competition in 1955 - just seven entrants, broadcast from a tiny venue in Switzerland with a studio audience of 200 - to the international extravaganza watched by 300 million viewers that it has become today. It's a completely unique event in modern pop music, with its own agenda entirely, that has spawned almost as many anti-heroes as it has stars. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photos, and rare memorabilia including artwork for singles, this book is a nostalgic and resplendent celebration of an at times eccentric competition that is adored by hundreds of millions. It is as compulsive as the show itself.

Published to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest, this is the official, the first and the definitive history of the annual event that is now a global phenomenon. The fun and the feuds, the high points, the dismal lows, the scandals, the most outrageous outfits, the innovators and the copy cats, this glorious book captures the singular flavour of Eurovision, charting its journey from the first competition in 1955 - just seven entrants, broadcast from a tiny venue in Switzerland with a studio audience of 200 - to the international extravaganza watched by 300 million viewers that it has become today. It's a completely unique event in modern pop music, with its own agenda entirely, that has spawned almost as many anti-heroes as it has stars. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photos, and rare memorabilia including artwork for singles, this book is a nostalgic and resplendent celebration of an at times eccentric competition that is adored by hundreds of millions. It is as compulsive as the show itself.

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club titleDo you think the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with its crazy props, even crazier dancers and crazier still songs has nothing to do with serious European politics? Think again. The contest has been a mirror for cultural, social and political developments in Europe ever since its inauguration, when an audience in dinner jackets and ball-gowns politely applauded each song. It has been a voice of rebellion across the Iron Curtain, an inspiration for new European nations in the 1990s and 2000s, the voice of liberation for both sexual and regional minorities. It even once triggered a national revolution. Eurovision charts both the history of Europe and the history of the Eurovision Song Contest over the last six decades, and shows how seamlessly they interlink and what an amazing journey it has been.

Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of their Eurovision winning song Waterloo.Bright Lights Dark Shadows is the definitive biography of Abba, the world’s greatest pop band whose hit musical Mamma Mia! has become the most successful stage show and UK film of all time.This new edition of the bestselling Abba book has been substantially updated and revised to include details Mamma Mia’s extraordinary success and the ongoing lives of Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog, their music and their personal lives. It has also been substantially revised throughout.

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1983 album. . Bucks Fizz became one of the most successful British pop groups of the 1980's, with a string of hits following their memorable victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. Hand Cut - The Definitive Edition contains their entire third album fully remastered from the original master tapes, as well as the B-sides from the accompanying singles. Features the smash hits, 'If You Can't Stand The Heat' and 'Run For Your Life'. Inc

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1981 album. Bucks Fizz became one of the most successful British pop groups of the 1980's, with a string of hits following their memorable victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. Bucks Fizz-The Definitive Edition contains the entire first album fully remastered from the original master tapes, as well as the B-sides from the accompanying singles. Disc Two contains the Spanish album, El Mundo de Ilusion, for the very first time on CD

Jack Bruce (Cream) was guest at Rockpalast in 1980 at the first time - on the occasion of the 7th Rockpalast Night, broadcasted to millions of people all across Europe Live via Eurovision. The Lineup was Jack Bruce & Friends: nobody less than Billy Cobham (Miles Davis, Stanley Clarke) on drums, Clem Clempson (Humble Pie, Colosseum) on guitar and David Sancious (Bruce Springsteen, Santana, Eric Clapton, Sting) on keyboard and guitar. It's fascinating to watch and listen to four equitable and bril

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1984 album. . Bucks Fizz became one of the most successful British pop groups of the 1980's, with a string of hits following their memorable victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. I Hear Talk-The Definitive Edition contains their fourth album fully remastered from the original master tapes as well as the B sides and extended tracks from the fourth studio album sessions. Features the smash hits, 'I Hear Talk', 'Talking In Your Slee

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1982 album. . Bucks Fizz became one of the most successful British pop groups of the 1980's, with a string of hits following their memorable victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. Are You Ready - The Definitive Edition contains the entire album fully remastered from the original master tapes, as well as the B-sides from the accompanying singles. Features the #1 smash hits, 'My Camera Never Lies' and 'Land Of Make Believe' and the

Digitally remastered two CD collection from the Irish Eurovision Song Contest winner featuring a trio of her original '70s albums (plus bonus tracks): Have a Nice Day, Love Songs & Fairytales and the Girl Is Back. These three albums collectively spawned the UK hit singles 'Please Tell Him That I Said Hello', 'Never Gonna Fall in Love Again', 'Fairytale' and 'Something's Cookin' in the Kitchen'. This double disc set also contains 10 bonus tracks including 'Abschiedsparty', 'It's Gonna Be a Cold C

More powerful than a fistful of euros, reaching farther than a Eurail pass, this phrasebook is more entertaining than Eurovision! From Copenhagen to Istanbul, Madrid to Venice, this is your ticket to 11 languages, a whole continent of culture, and the ultimate European adventure.Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.

In the 1970s no group was more commercially successful than ABBA (an acronym of the first initial of each member), who are estimated to have sold over 100 million records worldwide. After winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Anni-Frid rose to international renown, their wholesome image and buoyant, catchy records helping them to top the charts with an unbroken string of hits that have become pop classics. Although the group disbanded in 1982, ABBA has enjoyed an unprecedented revival and is more popular than ever. The compilation ABBA Gold has sold millions of copies worldwide, and the phenomenal London success of the musical Mama Mia! --which has played to sold out houses since its debut in April of 1999 and is sold out until summer of 2001--has brought the group's music to a whole new audience. From ABBA to Mama Mia! features more than 500 photos, most never before seen, by Anders Hanser, a close friend of the band with unprecedented access for more than 20 years. The text is written by Carl Magnus Palm, one of the world's foremost ABBA historians, who had unrivalled access to the group and members of their entourage, including costume designers, sound engineers, and video directors. Palm offers a new perspective on ABBA, presenting a complete and vivid portrait of the group and its members from their days as the biggest pop music phenomenon of the 1970s, through the solo albums and musical projects of the 1980s, to the success of Mama Mia! This authorized book also features a foreword by the band members themselves, making it the definitive ABBA book.

More powerful than a fistful of euros, reaching further than a Eurail pass, this phrasebook is more entertaining than Eurovision! From Berlin to Budapest, Warsaw to Ljubljana, this is your ticket to six languages, a whole continent of culture, and the ultimate European adventure.Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.

Composed by Brendan Graham and winner of the 1996 Eurovision competition, this Celtic inspired song most recently recorded by Celtic Woman sings of...

Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? You need some Quirkology in your life. While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Richard Wiseman has been busy uncovering the secret ingredients of charisma, exploring how our personalities are shaped by when we are born and examining why people usually miss the obvious signs of their partner's infidelity. Using scientific methods to investigate offbeat topics that interest the general public as well as the scientific community, "Quirkology" brings a new understanding to the backwaters of the human mind and takes us to places where mainstream scientists fear to tread. Comparable to Freakonomics, but British, far more populist, and a lot funnier. Findings include: How does your surname influence your life? What does the way you walk reveal about your personality? Why should women have men write their personal ads? and What is the funniest joke in the world?

This volume incorporates three collections: "Visions Before Midnight", "The Crystal Bucket" and "Glued to the Box". they are selections of Clive James's TV criticism from "The Observer" between 1972 and 1982, from the 1972 Olympics to the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest.

In April 1974, ABBA stormed to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo", resplendent in their shiny satin costumes and silver platform boots. More than 25 years and 350 million record sales later, ABBA's popularity remains undiminished.Between "Waterloo" and their break-up, ABBA became the second biggest selling pop band of all time. When Polygram released the greatest hits collection ABBA Gold in 1992, it helped to kickstart a huge ABBA revival: the album has sold more than 15 million copies to date. ABBA songs played a key role in hit movies such as Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Mamma Mia, a musical written around 27 ABBA songs, opened in London in April 1999 and is slated to kick off its Broadway run in November 2001.ABBA: The Book is the definitive history of the group, fully illustrated throughout with hundreds of glorious photographs, many of which are from ABBA's private archive and previously unpublished. Drawing on exclusive interviews with the band and their manager and mentor, Stig Anderson, Jean-Marie Potiez relates in detail the incredible story of ABBA's glittering career.

A hilariously funny book about the Eurovision Song Contest.Fifty years after Jetty Paerl took to the Lugano stage and burst into “The Birds of Holland,” the Eurovision Song Contest is still luring 450 million Europeans to the sofa on a Saturday night in May every year. But where once they settled down to admire the “top-quality original songwriting” that the contest was inaugurated to showcase, the Eurovision Song Contest, throughout the post-Abba decades, has come to mean “entertainment” for all the wrong reasons: magnificent foolishness and stubborn reinforcement of the crudest national stereotypes, and a scoreboard shamelessly corrupted by cross-border friendship and hatred.And as post-modern connoisseurs of showbiz meltdown, the audience has shifted its focus from the blandly competent winners to the spangled, hapless losers. It is here that the gold standard of farcical failure, the benchmark of badness, is to score NUL POINTS, and where sympathetic understanding is replaced by brutal guffaws.Darkly fascinated with those whose lives are shadowed by the entertainment world’s most grandiose humiliation, Tim Moore sets off to track down the thirteen Eurominstrels who have come and gone without troubling the scorers. From Lisbon to Lithuania, from the Black Sea to the Baltic, Moore travels the continent to hear their stories — “poignant, ludicrous and heartwarming in equal measure” — recounting as he does so the history of that towering cathedral of cheese, the Eurovision Song Contest itself.

From throwaway Eurovision to highly respected pop icons, ABBA's extraordinary journey through the pages of rock history ABBA's story has everything: incredible voices, love, marriages, break-ups, divorces, and some of the most memorable outfits ever seen on a stage. This indispensable DVD and book set provides fans of the band with a perfect career retrospective; it looks beyond the glitz and the glamour to get to the heart of what made ABBA so special. The book features a biography of ABBA, along with in-depth interviews with Björn Again founder Rod Leissle, record producer Pip Williams, music journalist Hugh Fielder, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad herself, plus a detailed track-by-track analysis of all their studio releases The DVDs also draw on the opinions of John Tobler and Jeff Rose, two publicists for the band, who give unique insights into what it was like to work and socialize with the band. Rod Leissle pays tribute to the band's

What are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions. From the Eurovision Song Contest to reality TV, from Indigenous radio to the revolution stage, Sonevytsky assesses how these practices exhibit and re-imagine Ukrainian tradition and culture. As the rise of global populism forces us to confront the category of state sovereignty anew, Sonevytsky proposes innovative paradigms for thinking through the creative practices that constitute sovereignty, citizenship, and nationalism.