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The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was the 21st edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. ... BBC: BBC1: Michael Aspel [44] BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2: Terry Wogan
The show took place on 25 February 1976 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Michael Aspel (who had hosted the 1969 UK final) acted as presenter for the event. [1] Fourteen regional juries voted on the songs: Bristol, Bangor, Leeds, Norwich, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff, Plymouth, Glasgow, Southampton and London.
Eleven Eurovision winners (alongside three non-winners) were featured at the special concert Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, in which ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song of the contest's first fifty years. [85] Ireland and Sweden have won seven times, more than any other country. Ireland also won ...
Although the United Kingdom was entered twice into Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest, with Cliff Richard's 1968 runner-up entry "Congratulations" and Brotherhood of Man's 1976 winning song "Save Your Kisses for Me", the BBC decided not to air the event or participate in the voting, but instead aired an hour-long special ...
Brotherhood of Man had the biggest-selling single of 1976, with "Save Your Kisses for Me", the winning song of that year's Eurovision Song Contest, which spent six weeks at number-one. Elton John had two top 10 singles this year, including his duet with Kiki Dee , " Don't Go Breaking My Heart ", which topped the charts for six weeks and became ...
Terry Wogan has hosted the contest more times than any other presenter and he also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest itself, as did two other hosts of the UK heats and finals; Katie Boyle and Ulrika Jonsson. Angela Rippon hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 and was the Bristol jury spokesperson at the 1986 and 1987 A Song for Europe shows.
The Eurovision Song Contest ... inspired by the BBC's Festival of British Popular Songs, ... the winning song in 1976 for the United Kingdom's Brotherhood of Man, ...
3 April – The United Kingdom wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the third time with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me", sung by Brotherhood of Man in The Hague. It remains one of the biggest-selling Eurovision songs ever.