🔴 1989 Eurovision Song Contest Full Show from Lausanne (English Commentary by Terry Wogan)

Date: 6 May 1989 - Host Venue: Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland
Presenters: Jacques Deschenaux, Lolita Morena
Musical director: Benoit Kaufman
Directed by Alain Bloch
Executive supervisor: Frank Naef
Executive producer: Raymond Zumsteg
Host broadcaster: Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR)
Opening act "Ne partez pas sans moi" and "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" performed by Celine Dion (Not in this video due to copyright restrictions)
Interval act: Guy Tell

The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 was the 34th annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held on 6 May 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, after Celine Dion's victory in Dublin the previous year. The program was presented by Lolita Morena and Jacques Deschenaux. Riva, representing Yugoslavia, won with the song "Rock Me". This was the only victory for Yugoslavia as a unified state. Furthermore, this was the first victory for one of the Balkan countries and this was the first winning song to be performed in one of the Slavic languages.

The United Kingdom's Ray Caruana, lead singer with Live Report was outspoken about coming second to what he considered a much less worthy song. They had been defeated by 7 points.

Two of the performers, Nathalie Pâque and Gili Natanael were respectively 11 and 12 years old at their time of competing. Due to bad publicity surrounding their participation, the European Broadcasting Union introduced the rule stating no performer is allowed to take part before the year of their 16th birthday.

The previous year's winner, Celine Dion, opened the show with a mimed performance of her winning song and a mimed performance of her first English-language single, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now". The song became a top ten hit in the US a year later - effectively launching her into international success.

Results:

Draw Country Artist Song Language Place Points
01 Italy Anna Oxa & Fausto Leali "Avrei voluto" Italian 9 56
02 Israel Gili Netanel & Galit Burg-Michael "Derekh Hamelekh" (דרך המלך) Hebrew 12 50
03 Ireland Kiev Connolly & The Missing Passengers "The Real Me" English 18 21
04 Netherlands Justine Pelmelay "Blijf zoals je bent" Dutch 15 45
05 Turkey Pan "Bana Bana" Turkish 21 5
06 Belgium Ingeborg "Door de wind" Dutch 19 13
07 United Kingdom Live Report "Why Do I Always Get it Wrong?" English 2 130
08 Norway Britt Synnøve Johansen "Venners nærhet" Norwegian 17 30
09 Portugal Da Vinci "Conquistador" Portuguese 16 39
10 Sweden Tommy Nilsson "En dag" Swedish 4 110
11 Luxembourg Park Café "Monsieur" French 20 8
12 Denmark Birthe Kjær "Vi maler byen rød" Danish 3 111
(Not in this video due to copyright restrictions)
13 Austria Thomas Forstner "Nur ein Lied" German 5 97
14 Finland Anneli Saaristo "La dolce vita" Finnish 7 76
15 France Nathalie Pâque "J'ai volé la vie" French 8 60
16 Spain Nina "Nacida para amar" Spanish 6 88
17 Cyprus Fani Polymeri & Yiannis Savvidakis "Apopse as vrethume" (Απόψε ας βρεθούμε) Greek 11 51
18 Switzerland Furbaz "Viver senza tei" Romansh 13 47
19 Greece Marianna Efstratiou "To diko sou asteri" (Το δικό σου αστέρι) Greek 9 56
20 Iceland Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson "Það sem enginn sér" Icelandic 22 0
21 Germany Nino de Angelo "Flieger" German 14 46
22 Yugoslavia Riva "Rock Me" Serbo-Croatian 1 137