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Eurovision Song Contest 1981
Dates
Final	4 April 1981
Host
Venue	RDS Simmonscourt Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland
Presenter(s)	Doireann Ní Bhriain
Musical director	Noel Kelehan
Director	Ian McGarry
EBU scrutineer	Frank Naef
Executive producer	Noel D Greene
Host broadcaster	Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/dublin-1981
Participants
Number of entries	20
Debuting countries	Cyprus
Returning countries	Israel  Yugoslavia
Non-returning countries	Italy  Morocco
Participation map      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1981
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song	United Kingdom "Making Your Mind Up"
1980 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1982

The Eurovision Song Contest 1981 was the 26th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Dublin, Ireland, following the country's victory at the 1980 contest with the song "What's Another Year" by Johnny Logan. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), the contest was held at the RDS Simmonscourt on 4 April 1981, and was hosted by Irish television journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain.

Twenty countries participated in the contest, equalling the record of the 1978 edition. Cyprus made their début this year, while Israel and Yugoslavia both returned to the competition, after their one-year and five-year absences, respectively. Morocco and Italy decided not to participate.

The winner was the United Kingdom with the song "Making Your Mind Up", performed by Bucks Fizz, written by Andy Hill and John Danter. Germany finished second for the second consecutive year, while France finished third. Norway again finished last, with its third nul points in the contest.

Bucks Fizz's win launched the group's hugely successful international career. Their performance on the Eurovision stage included a dance-routine where the two male members ripped the skirts off the two female members only to reveal mini-skirts, and today stands as one of the most defining moments in the contest's history.

Location

Ireland having won in 1980, head of Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Brian MacLochlainn announced that they would host the contest in 1981 within hours of Johnny Logan winning. The 1981 contest took place in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. It was the second time the country (and city) had hosted the contest, the last time being ten years earlier in 1971.

Participating countries

By October 1980, it looked as though 21 countries were planning to take part, the largest number so far, but Monaco declared that they were no longer interested. This year marked the début of Cyprus in the contest, who finished sixth. Returning to the contest was Israel, who did not compete the previous year, despite winning the two years prior to that. They finished seventh. Yugoslavia also returned to the competition after a five-year absence. Italy decided not to enter due to lack of interest, while Morocco declined to take part after their debut entry the year before. Morocco's king, Hassan II, "reportedly withdrew Rabat's participation from the contest the following year, saying that the country will never participate again". The draw for the running order took place on 14 November 1980, with it being confirmed that there were a total of 20 entrants.

Eurovision Song Contest 1981 participants

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Austria	ORF	Marty Brem	"Wenn du da bist"	German	Werner Böhmler	Richard Oesterreicher
Belgium	BRT	Emly Starr	"Samson"	Dutch	Kick Dandy Penny Els Giuseppe Marchese	Giuseppe Marchese
Cyprus	CyBC	Island	"Monika" (Μόνικα)	Greek	Doros Georgiades Stavros Sideras	Mihalis Rozakis
Denmark	DR	Tommy Seebach and Debbie Cameron	"Krøller eller ej"	Danish	Keld Heick Tommy Seebach	Allan Botschinsky
Finland	YLE	Riki Sorsa	"Reggae O.K."	Finnish	Olli Ojala Jim Pembroke	Henrik Otto Donner
France	TF1	Jean Gabilou	"Humanahum"	French	Jean-Paul Cara Joe Gracy	David Sprinfield
Germany	BR	Lena Valaitis	"Johnny Blue"	German	Bernd Meinunger Ralph Siegel	Wolfgang Rödelberger
Greece	ERT	Yiannis Dimitras	"Feggari kalokerino" (Φεγγάρι καλοκαιρινό)	Greek	Yiannis Dimitras Giorgos Niarchos	Giorgos Niarchos
Ireland	RTÉ	Sheeba	"Horoscopes"	English	Joe Burkett Jim Kelly	Noel Kelehan
Israel	IBA	Habibi	"Halayla" (הלילה)	Hebrew	Shlomit Aharon Yuval Dor Shuki Levy	Eldad Shrem
Luxembourg	CLT	Jean-Claude Pascal	"C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique"	French	Sophie Makhno Jean-Claude Petit Jean-Claude Villemino	Joël Rocher
Netherlands	NOS	Linda Williams	"Het is een wonder"	Dutch	Bart van de Laar Cees de Wit	Rogier van Otterloo
Norway	NRK	Finn Kalvik	"Aldri i livet"	Norwegian	Finn Kalvik	Sigurd Jansen
Portugal	RTP	Carlos Paião	"Playback"	Portuguese	Carlos Paião	Shegundo Galarza
Spain	TVE	Bacchelli	"Y sólo tú"	Spanish	Amado Jaén	Joan Barcons
Sweden	SVT	Björn Skifs	"Fångad i en dröm"	Swedish	Bengt Palmers Björn Skifs	Anders Berglund
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Peter, Sue and Marc	"Io senza te"	Italian	Nella Martinetti Peter Reber	Rolf Zuckowski
Turkey	TRT	Modern Folk Trio and Ayşegül	"Dönme Dolap"	Turkish	Ali Kocatepe	Onno Tunç
United Kingdom	BBC	Bucks Fizz	"Making Your Mind Up"	English	John Danter Andy Hill	John Coleman
Yugoslavia	JRT	Seid Memić Vajta	"Lejla" (Лејла)	Serbo-Croatian	Ranko Boban	Ranko Rihtman

Returning artists

Of the performers, many previous contestants returned to the contest this year. Notably, Jean-Claude Pascal for Luxembourg, who had won the contest 20 years earlier, although could only manage 11th place this time. Peter, Sue and Marc returned for the fourth time, after 1971, 1976 and 1979. Performing again for Switzerland, they remain the only act to sing in four different languages (French, English, German and this time, Italian). Other returnees were Marty Brem who had taken part the year before for Austria, Tommy Seebach for Denmark, and Björn Skifs for Sweden. Bucks Fizz member, Cheryl Baker had performed in 1978 with the band Co-Co for the UK, while Sheeba member Maxi had performed as a solo artist in 1973 for Ireland.

Bold indicates a previous winner.

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Jean-Claude Pascal	Luxembourg	1961
Peter, Sue and Marc	Switzerland	1971, 1976, 1979 (along with Pfuri, Gorps and Kniri)
Maxi (as part of Sheeba)	Ireland	1973
Ismeta Dervoz (as backing singer)	Yugoslavia	1976 (as part of Ambasadori)
Björn Skifs	Sweden	1978
Cheryl Baker (as part of Bucks Fizz)	United Kingdom	1978 (as part of Co-Co)
Tommy Seebach	Denmark	1979
Debbie Cameron		1979 (as backing singer for Tommy Seebach)
Marty Brem	Austria	1980 (part of Blue Danube)
Anita Skorgan (as backing singer)	Norway	1977, 1979

Format

The contest took place under heavy guard at the 1,600 seat Simmonscourt Pavilion of the RDS, which was normally used for agricultural and horse shows. The set was the largest ever seen in the contest so far, being 150 feet across, 80 feet deep and 30 feet high. Over 250 armed soldiers and police were on hand to protect against any likely political demonstrations, with the UK entrants being under constant guard during their time in Dublin due to threats from the IRA. This included an evacuation of the participants' hotel at one point due to a bomb scare. The security measures were reported on British news reports on the day of the contest.

Rehearsals at the Pavilion began on 31 March with each act allowed 30 minutes with the orchestra, continuing up until the day of the contest, which ended with a dress rehearsal at 16:30. On 1 April, the Irish Tourist Board held a reception for the contest at Jurys Hotel, Dublin.

The presenter on this occasion was Doireann Ni Bhriain, who was well known in Ireland at the time as a TV presenter and for the current affairs radio show Women Today. She was chosen for her fluency in Irish and English as well as having studied French and Spanish, which she spoke with some ease. She had also worked on the 1971 contest as an interpreter in the RTE press office. The director was Ian McGarry, while Noel Kelehan was the chief conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, which comprised 46 musicians.

It cost RTÉ £530,000 to stage the show, although this included £110,000 from the EBU. From this, the Irish Government expected to make around £2,000,000 from tourism as a result of staging the show. It was expected that the worldwide audience would be some 500 million with 30 countries broadcasting the event, including countries such as Hong Kong, the Soviet Union, United Arab Emirates and for the first time, Egypt.

Each song was introduced by a filmed 'postcard', framed by an animated identification of the nation's location. Unlike previous films used in 1970 and 1976 that had also featured the performing artist, the 1981 films prominently included the authors and composers alongside the performing artist.

Contest overview

The interval act was traditional Irish band Planxty, who performed the lengthy piece "Timedance", which depicted Irish music through the ages. The accompanying dancers were from Dublin City Ballet. This is seen as a precursor to Riverdance, which became famous after its performance in 1994. The song, which was written by Bill Whelan, went on to be released as a Planxty single and became a No.3 hit in the Irish charts.

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1981

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Austria	Marty Brem	"Wenn du da bist"	20	17
2	Turkey	Modern Folk Trio and Ayşegül	"Dönme Dolap"	9	18
3	Germany	Lena Valaitis	"Johnny Blue"	132	2
4	Luxembourg	Jean-Claude Pascal	"C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique"	41	11
5	Israel	Habibi	"Halayla"	56	7
6	Denmark	Tommy Seebach and Debbie Cameron	"Krøller eller ej"	41	11
7	Yugoslavia	Seid Memić Vajta	"Lejla"	35	15
8	Finland	Riki Sorsa	"Reggae O.K."	27	16
9	France	Jean Gabilou	"Humanahum"	125	3
10	Spain	Bacchelli	"Y sólo tú"	38	14
11	Netherlands	Linda Williams	"Het is een wonder"	51	9
12	Ireland	Sheeba	"Horoscopes"	105	5
13	Norway	Finn Kalvik	"Aldri i livet"	0	20
14	United Kingdom	Bucks Fizz	"Making Your Mind Up"	136	1
15	Portugal	Carlos Paião	"Playback"	9	18
16	Belgium	Emly Starr	"Samson"	40	13
17	Greece	Yiannis Dimitras	"Feggari kalokerino"	55	8
18	Cyprus	Island	"Monika"	69	6
19	Switzerland	Peter, Sue and Marc	"Io senza te"	121	4
20	Sweden	Björn Skifs	"Fångad i en dröm"	50	10

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1981 contest are listed below.

•  Netherlands – Flip van der Schalie
•  Sweden – Bengteric Nordell
•  United Kingdom – Colin Berry
•  Yugoslavia – Helga Vlahović

Detailed voting results

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs.

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
5	Switzerland	Finland,  Ireland,  Norway,  United Kingdom,  Yugoslavia
4	France	Austria,  Germany,  Luxembourg,   Switzerland
	Germany	Portugal,  Spain,  Sweden,  Turkey
2	Ireland	Cyprus,  Denmark
	United Kingdom	Netherlands,  Israel
1	Cyprus	Greece
	Denmark	Belgium
	Sweden	France

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Iceland, in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union via Intervision, and in Egypt, Hong Kong, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, with an estimated global audience of 600 million viewers.

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	ORF	FS2	Ernst Grissemann
Belgium	BRT	TV1	Luc Appermont
	RTBF	RTBF1, Télé 2
		RTBF Radio 1
Cyprus	CyBC	RIK
Denmark	DR	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
Finland	YLE	TV1	Ossi Runne
		Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi]	Matti Paalosmaa [fi]
France	TF1		Patrick Sabatier
Germany	ARD	Deutsches Fernsehen
Greece	ERT	ERT, A Programma
Ireland	RTÉ	RTÉ 1	Larry Gogan
		RTÉ Radio 1
Israel	IBA	Israeli Television
Luxembourg	CLT	RTL Télé-Luxembourg
Netherlands	NOS	Nederland 1	Pim Jacobs
Norway	NRK	NRK Fjernsynet	Knut Aunbu
		NRK	Erik Heyerdahl [no]
Portugal	RTP	RTP1
	RDP	Antena 1
Spain	TVE	TVE 1	Miguel de los Santos [es]
Sweden	SVT	TV1	Ulf Elfving
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Theodor Haller [de]
		TSR	Georges Hardy [fr]
		TSI	Giovanni Bertini
Turkey	TRT	TRT Televizyon
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC1	Terry Wogan
		BBC Radio 2	Ray Moore
Yugoslavia	JRT	TV Beograd 1
		TV Ljubljana 1 [sl]
		TV Novi Sad
		TV Zagreb 1

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	SBS	2EA, 3EA
Czechoslovakia	ČST	ČST2
Greenland	Nuuk TV
Hong Kong	TVB	TVB Pearl
Hungary	MTV	MTV2	András Sugár [hu]
Iceland	RÚV	Sjónvarpið	Dóra Hafsteinsdóttir
Jordan	JTV	JTV2
Netherlands Antilles	TeleAruba
	TeleCuraçao		Pim Jacobs
Poland	TP	TP1
South Korea	KBS	1TV

Notes

1. On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD
2. Deferred broadcast at 22:40 (CEST)
3. ^ Broadcast through a second audio programme on TSR
4. Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 3 May 1981 at 17:10 (CEST)
5. Delayed broadcast on 23 May 1981 at 20:40 (WGST)
6. Deferred broadcast on 7 April at 21:30 (HKT)
7. Delayed broadcast on 2 May 1981 at 21:50 (CEST)
8. Delayed broadcast on 19 April 1981 at 21:10 (WET)
9. Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 10 October 1981 at 21:10 (EET)
10. Delayed broadcast on 25 July 1981 at 20:00 (ADT)
11. Delayed broadcast on 13 July 1981 at 22:00 (ADT)
12. Delayed broadcast on 25 April 1981 at 22:45 (CEST)
13. Delayed broadcast on 16 April 1981 at 21:40 (KST)

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