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Date: Saturday, 6 April 1974 - 19th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest
Venue: The Dome, Brighton, United Kingdom - Presentation: Katie Boyle
Voting: Per country, 10 jurymembers each awarded 1 point to their favourite song.
Number of countries: 17

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You have the choice between 5 commentary versions in this iconic edition of the Eurovision Song Contest:

1. Without Foreign Language Commentary (and some Dutch Commentary towards the end):

https://youtu.be/R3-iN8tfEQA

2. German Commentary by ORF Austria speaker Ernst Grissemann:

https://youtu.be/IhoMUw7GuSo

3. English Commentary by David Vine for the BBC:

https://youtu.be/zbfQMgcu49Q

4. Swedish Commentary for the winning country Sweden (SVT) by Johan Sandström

https://youtu.be/v9qwRvuvqmI

and

5. Spanish Commentary by José Luis Uribarri for the Spanish broadcaster TVE Primera Cadena:

https://youtu.be/2Z1BFQUWENo

Abba' performance is here:

https://youtu.be/R3-iN8tfEQA?t=2129

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The Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was was held in the seaside resort of Brighton on the south coast of the United Kingdom. The BBC agreed to stage the event after Luxembourg, having won in both 1972 and 1973, declined on the grounds of expense to host the contest for a second consecutive year.The winner of the Contest was Sweden with the song "Waterloo" which was performed by ABBA, who went on to become one of the most popular recording acts of all time. Sweden's win was their first, which was the first victory for the country from the Scandinavian Peninsula Katie Boyle returned to host her fourth Eurovision Song Contest (after hosting the 1960, 1963 and 1968 contests).

The programme was also notable in being the European television debut for the winners, ABBA, who were credited in previews as "The Abba".The United Kingdom was represented in the contest by the (British-born) Australian pop singer Olivia Newton-John, who finished in fourth place with the song "Long Live Love". She passed away in 2022.

Portugal's entry "E depois do adeus" was used as the first of the two signals to launch the Carnation Revolution against the Estado Novo regime. Played on a Portuguese radio station late in the evening of 24 April 1974, the broadcasting of the song alerted the rebel, largely left-wing captains and soldiers to prepare to begin the successful military coup.

John Kennedy O'Connor described "E depois do adeus" as "the only Eurovision entry to have actually started a revolution".In 1974, during the dictatorship in Greece, rock band Nostradamos won the first Eurovision participation contest ran by the state broadcaster ERT to represent Greece at Eurovision However, due to a scandal, the band was not allowed to compete at Eurovision, and Greek laiko singer Marinella was sent instead.

Timeline:
0:01 Eurovision hymn
0:43 Host city introduction (Brighton)
3:17 Host introduction
6:18 Finland intro
6:59 Finland song
10:00 UK Intro
10:20 UK song
14:12 Spain intro
14:47 Spain song
18:15 Norway intro
18:47 Norway song
22:13 Greece intro
22:49 Greece song
26:22 Israel intro
27:02 Israel song
30:38 Yugoslavia intro
31:02 Yugoslavia song
34:48 Sweden intro
35:28 Sweden song
38:42 Luxemburg intro
39:24 Luxemburg song
42:48 Monaco intro
43:14 Monaco song
46:42 Belgium intro
47:15 Belgium song
50:42 Netherlands intro
51:34 Netherlands song
54:55 Ireland intro
55:37 Ireland song
58:48 Germany intro
59:17 Germany song
1:02:38 Switzerland Intro
1:03:10 Switzerland song
1:06:45 Portugal intro
1:07:14 Portugal song
1:10:20 Italy intro
1:10:52 Italy song
1:14:42 Introduction to voting
1:15:50 Wombles singing a song
1:19:24 Womble enters stage
1:19:46 Explanation of voting
1:23:40 Jury voting starts
1:40:14 Winner is announced
1:44:00 Replay of winning song
1:47:32 End credits
1:48:50 Eurovision hymn