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Date: Saturday, 4 May 1985 - 1985 Eurovision Song Contest - 30th edition
Venue: Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden - Presentation: Lill Lindfors
Voting: Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to its top 10 (by a jury)
Number of countries: 19

This show is fully subtitled. If you activate the subtitles, it's never been easier to understand all the lyrics of the songs and our annotations that we created with much love.

For the 1985 ESC you have the choice between several language versions as for the commentary. Here they are:

1. 🔴 1985 Eurovision Song Contest from Gothenburg/Sweden (English Commentary by Terry Wogan) With SUBTITLES

https://youtu.be/JIHNRV6O4_U

2. 🔴 1985 Eurovision Song Contest from Gothenburg/Sweden (German Commentary by Ernst Grissemann) With SUBTITLES

https://youtu.be/YSxz_yw-DGs

3. 🔴 1985 Eurovision Song Contest from Gothenburg (German Commentary Ado Schlier) With SUBTITLES

https://youtu.be/WFlOHcSKhi0

4. 🔴 1985 Eurovision Song Contest from Gothenburg/Sweden (No Commentary) FULL SUBTITLED SHOW

https://youtu.be/VeNIu-U000M

Many fans consider THIS to be the best ESC ever. Mostly because of the very charming host Lill Lindfors who really did a perfect job that night. We added complete subtitles to the whole show with the lyrics to all the songs and infos during the postcards. The audio commentary here is spoken by ESC legend Terry Wogan for the BBC.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was the 30th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held on 4 May 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The presenter was entertainer Lill Lindfors, whose jokey dress rip after the interval act (seemingly revealing her knickers before unfolding another dress) was said to have not amused the wife of EBU scrutineer Frank Naef. Norwegian duo Bobbysocks! were the winners with the song "La det swinge".

Bobbysocks!' win for Norway was the country's first. Host Lill Lindfors congratulated the duo, Hanne Krogh and Elisabeth Andreasson, following their victory by saying, "I must say I am honestly very happy that this happened because Norway has been last on so many times that you really deserve it!" Krogh replied, "You're happy? What do you think we are?!" After an energetic reprise, the two women embraced to a standing ovation from the audience.

During the voting, it was not immediately evident that Norway would win the Contest. Germany took a commanding lead in the first half, with Norway fifth place behind Germany, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom around the end of the first half of voting. Finally, with five juries left, Germany, Sweden and Norway were tightly wrapped around the pole positions with 87, 86, and 85 points respectively. At that point, Sweden briefly took the lead away from Germany (who received no points from Switzerland). Sweden was the fourth-to-last jury, conceding their brief lead by awarding Germany eight points and Norway the maximum twelve. With only three countries left to vote, Norway kept the lead, in one of the shortest winning stretches during voting in the contest's history.

STARTER LIST:

Draw Country Artist Song Language Place Points
01 Ireland Maria Christian "Wait Until the Weekend Comes" English 6 91
02 Finland Sonja Lumme "Eläköön elämä" Finnish 9 58
03 Cyprus Lia Vissi "To katalava arga" (Το κατάλαβα αργά) Greek 16 15
04 Denmark Hot Eyes "Sku' du spørg' fra no'en?" Danish 11 41
05 Spain Paloma San Basilio "La fiesta terminó" Spanish 14 36
06 France Roger Bens "Femme dans ses rêves aussi" French 10 56
07 Turkey MFÖ "Didai didai dai" Turkish 14 36
08 Belgium Linda Lepomme "Laat me nu gaan" Dutch 19 7
09 Portugal Adelaide "Penso em ti, eu sei" Portuguese 18 9
10 Germany Wind "Für alle" German 2 105
11 Israel Izhar Cohen "Olé, Olé" (עולה, עולה) Hebrew 5 93
12 Italy Al Bano & Romina Power "Magic Oh Magic" Italian 7 78
13 Norway Bobbysocks! "La det swinge" Norwegian 1 123
14 United Kingdom Vikki "Love Is…" English 4 100
15 Switzerland Mariella Farré & Pino Gasparini "Piano, piano" German 12 39
16 Sweden Kikki Danielsson "Bra vibrationer" Swedish 3 103
17 Austria Gary Lux "Kinder dieser Welt" German 8 60
18 Luxembourg Margo, Franck Olivier, Diane Solomon,
Ireen Sheer, Chris & Malcolm Roberts "Children, Kinder, Enfants" French 13 37
19 Greece Takis Biniaris "Miazoume" (Μοιάζουμε) Greek 16 15