Welsh pop singer Bonnie Tyler has been confirmed as the UK representative at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.
The Celtic cultural revival began as a spectacular diversion at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin.
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That song, "Hard Rock Hallelujah" by Lordi, scooped the Eurovision Song Contest for Finland.
Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has written the song which will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Ryan Dolan from Strabane, County Tyrone, has been announced as Ireland's entry for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.
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Last year Russia won the Eurovision Song Contest - and this year's competition is being held in Moscow.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into why his country gave Russia "nul points" at Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest.
The UK entry for the 58th Eurovision Song Contest was written by American songwriter Desmond Child with British songwriters Lauren Christy and Christopher Braide.
Even now some non-Teutonic bands sing in German, says Mr Akstinat, pointing to Ich Troje, which represented Poland in last year's Eurovision song contest.
Abba shot to fame after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with Waterloo and have sold nearly 400 million records around the world.
Graham even managed to make a couple of references to the other programmes he presents, such this year's Eurovision Song Contest and Comic Relief.
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And they have not performed in public since 1986, 12 years after shooting to fame by winning the Eurovision Song Contest with their track Waterloo.
Jordan, who is bidding to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest, has a two-year-old son, who was born blind, with footballer Dwight Yorke.
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Graham Norton commentates for the UK at the final of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday 16 May, shown on BBC One from 2000 BST.
Zbontar beat out mathematicians at MIT in a contest to predict the voting in the Eurovision Song Contest (a sort of European version of American Idol).
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At the height of the Cold War, Karl had built his own secret satellite dish so he could watch the Eurovision Song Contest on Finnish TV.
The Swedish band came to prominence through winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, and went on to score a string of chart-topping records around the world.
Irish singer Dana - who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 with All Kinds Of Everything - has won a seat in elections to the European Parliament.
And I was happily chatting to people over IM on Facebook back in the UK as a news story in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest starter to break.
He used to organise clandestine Eurovision Song Contest parties.
Earlier this year she made a sensational appearance during RAI's broadcast of the San Remo Music Festival - a sort of Italian version of the Eurovision song contest, and very much family viewing.
With its grand casino, fabulous weather almost year round and famous music festival, which inspired the Eurovision Song Contest, San Remo rivalled Cannes as a glamorous beach destination for starlets and millionaires in the 1950s and 1960s.
London (CNN) -- Emmelie de Forest carried Denmark to triumph early Sunday in the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual musical spectacle known for its combination of over-the-top costumes, kitsch pop songs and international rivalries.
While London and Berlin both see themselves as claimants to the title, if you look at the numbers (and you take a Eurovision Song Contest view of the Continent) arguably neither can challenge Tel Aviv.
Not to be outsung, the Warsaw Pact came up with its own version of Eurovision - the Intervision Song Contest.
Just as Eurovision's organisers are planning a two-tier song contest from next year, with only those countries that survive a qualifying round going through to the finals, the convention has been discussing a two-tier European Commission, in which smaller countries would lose their automatic right to nominate a commissioner.
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