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| "Ton
Nom" |
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"Llalame" |
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"Nur
In Der Weiner Luft" |
| Fud Leclerc
(BELGIUM/1962) |
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Victor
Balaguer (SPAIN/1962) |
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Eleonore
Schwarz (AUSTRIA/1962) |
| Fud competed
in the contest four times and on his last appearance went out not with
a bang but the "Fud" of being the first nul-pointer ever. |
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Right on Fud's
Walloon heels came Victor, the next song on stage in Luxembourg City. It's
rather ironic that two of the nul-pointers have been called
Victor. |
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Eleonore was
on stage right after Fud and Victor and effortlessly hit the nul points
hat-trick, the only time in contest history that 3 consecutive songs
zeroed out. |
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| "Katinka" |
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"Een
Speeldos" |
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"Solhverv" |
| De Spelbrekers
(HOLLAND/1962) |
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Annie Palmen
(HOLLAND/1963) |
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Anita Thallaug
(NORWAY/1963) |
| Apart from
their shared victory in 1969 the Netherlands had a dreadful decade in the
sixties and their first zero was achieved by this less than spellbinding
song. |
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Netherlands
became the first country to hit the double doughnut, though Germany would
join it in this category in a couple of years. |
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Norway's first
brush with the big fat zero featured a song so bad that Ms Thallaug even
refused to record it in a studio. On the night she almost bumped into a
pillar. |
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| "Muistojeni
Laulu" |
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"En
Gang I Stockholm" |
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"Mann
Gewohnt Sich So Schnell An Das Schone" |
| Laila Halme
(FINLAND/1963) |
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Monica
Zetterlund (SWEDEN/1963) |
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Nora Nova
(GERMANY/1964) |
| Laila went
"la la" for much of this song but the juries didn't go Dipsy.
Finland had been competing for over 40 years without a top 5
Finnish (sorry) until total victory in 2006. |
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This was a
strange year for Scandinavia. Denmark walked off with the Grand Prix but
the other 3 countries, including this ode to Stockholm, failed to
score. |
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Nora (who did not
have a brother called Vauxhall) sang the song with the longest title in
Eurovision history. The juries were not impressed. |
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| "Oracao" |
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"Zivot
Je Sklopio Krug" |
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"I
Miei Pensieri" |
| Antonio
Calvario (PORTUGAL/1964) |
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Sabahudin Kurt
(YUGOSLAVIA/1964) |
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Anita Traversi
(SWITZERAND/1964) |
| Portugal was
given the coldest welcome as it became the first country to score nul-points
on it's Eurovision debut, a feat not repeated until Lithuania 30 years
later. |
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Former
Yugoslavia's only zero. Sabahudin was part of the expert jury that
selected the Bosnia-Herzegovina entry in 2003 (which did score!) |
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The arguable
home of Eurovision (it hosted the first contest and is the HQ of the
organisers, the EBU) scored it's first zero with a song in
Italian as Italy won!. |
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| "Que
Bueno, Que Bueno" |
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"Paradis,
Wo Bist Du?" |
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"Als
Heet Weer Lente Is" |
| Conchita
Bautista (SPAIN/1965) |
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Ulla Wiesner
(GERMANY/1965) |
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Lize Marke
(BELGIUM/1965) |
| Conchita's
song translates as "That Good, That Good" but the juries
disagreed as one of Eurovision's giants suffered it's second
zero. |
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Ulla was
looking for paradise but in the end Germany joined the Netherlands in
consecutively scoring a pair of zeroes. That wasn't half as nice as
paradise |
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Lize failed to
leave her Marke on Eurovision. Belgium have always alternated between
Flemish and French songs, the former generally faring much worse. |
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| "Aurinko
Laskee Lanteen" |
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"Bien
Plus Fort" |
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"Dio
Come Ti Amo" |
| Viktor
Klimenko (FINLAND/1965) |
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Tereza
(MONACO/1966) |
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Domenico
Modugno(ITALY/1966) |
| Viktor
has been one of the most successful nul-pointers. Known as "The
Singing Kozak". Not to be confused with the 1960s Soviet gymnast of
the same name. |
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Monaco, like
Luxembourg, regularly imported foreign singers (and songwriters) to
perform for them. Tereza, undaunted sang for her native Yugoslavia in
1972. |
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This was the
man that gave the world "Volare", 3rd in 1958
and then "Piove". By 1966 though he was going downhill
faster than Alberto Tomba. |
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| "Quel
Coeur Vas-Tu Briser?" |
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"Je
Suis Tombe Du Ciel" |
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"Mil
Etter Mil" |
| Geraldine (SWITZERLAND/1967) |
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David A.Winter
(LUXEMBURG/1970) |
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Jahn Teigen
(NORWAY/1978) |
| A poor vocal
performance which ended up breaking Swiss hearts. The first nul-points
under the 10 votes per country system.. Not the same Geraldine as LUX
'75. |
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Only 12
entries in the boycott year and David falls from the sky to an embarrassing
zero for the country that was to win 2 of the next 3 contests. |
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The most
famous nul-points of all and the first under the current scoring system.
Great career move! Jahn returned in 82 and 83 to some (relative)
success. |
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| "Aldri
I Livet" |
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"Nuku
Pommiin" |
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"Opera" |
| Finn Kalvik
(NORWAY/1981) |
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Kojo (FINLAND/1982) |
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Cetin Alp (TURKEY/1983) |
| Finn's
downbeat ballad failed to ignite the juries. He sang immediately before
Bucks Fizz so I guess the outcome was rather
inevitable. |
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In the era of
cold war nuclear hysteria, "A Little Peace" romped home in
Harrogate, while the off-message "Nuku-Pommin" , er.. well...
bombed out. |
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A rather
esoteric song from Turkey and Cetin Alp had a mountain to climb to
convince the juries. Of course Turkey had the last laugh 20 years
later. |
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| "Quien
Maneja Mi Barca" |
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"Sarkim
Sevgi Ustune" |
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"Lisa,
Mona Lisa" |
| Remedios Amaya
(SPAIN/1983) |
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Seyyal Tanner
(TURKEY/1987) |
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Wilfried (AUSTRIA/1988) |
| Remedios sang
barefoot and she wailed her song about boats in a rather un-Euro-friendly
style. She is a class act though and still big in Spain and Latin America. |
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Seyyal's
backing group were called Locomotiv but their exuberant dance routines left
them in
the sidings in Brussels. Turkey's fortunes started to climb after
this. |
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Wilfried's
mournful tribute to Mona Lisa has regularly featured in the "worst
entry ever polls".. Enough said. No oil
painting. Painful. |
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| "Pad
Sem Enginn Ser" |
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"Venedig
Im Regen" |
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"Lopisine
Mylimaj" |
| Daniel
(ICELAND/1989) |
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Thomas
Forstner (AUSTRIA/1991) |
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Ovidius
Vysniauskas(LITHUANIA/1994) |
| Another
mournful song sung in Icelandic by a very severe looking guy. 1989 was a
schmaltz fest and Daniel's song was too downbeat to fit in. |
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In 1989 Thomas
came 5th giving Austria it's best result in 13 years. 2 years later he
went to Rome to sing about Venice in the rain and got well and truly
soaked. |
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7 countries
from Eastern Europe debuted in 1994 with very mixed results. Poland &
Hungary excelled while the ex-Soviet Baltics filled the last 2
positions. |
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| "San
Francisco" |
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"Antes
De Adeus" |
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"Lass
Ihn" |
| Tor Endresen
(NORWAY/1997) |
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Celia Lawson
(PORTUGAL/1997) |
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Gunvor (SWITZERLAND/1998) |
| Tor tried many
times to sing for Norway but "San Francisco achieved Norways
4th zero.. Tor is Norwegian for gate but this was to be no
golden year for Norway. |
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Celia is no
relative of Nigella, and her recipe wasn't tasty enough to avoid
Portugal's second zero after some years of relative success (and critical
acclaim). |
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Do me a favour
Gunvor! Well actually the televoters in 1998 did Switzerland no
favours. Gunvor is still however successful as a singer/dancer in her
homeland. |
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no accident that 18 of the 34 nul-pointers
occurred between 1962 and 1966. This was an era when each national jury could
only award points to 3 songs rather than to 10 songs as they did post 1974. From
1971-73 it was impossible to score Nul Points. See scoring
systems for more information. |
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Nul Pointers By Country |
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4 |
Norway |
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3 |
Austria, Finland, Spain, Switzerland |
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2 |
Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey |
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1 |
Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Sweden,
United Kingdom,Yugoslavia |
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"Cry
Baby" |
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Jemini (UK/2003) |
| The scouse duo
hit a new milestone for the UK in Riga and got much press coverage in the
process. Variously blamed on the Iraq war or a bad vocal performance. |
