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The Eurovison Wars: Spain’s Attack On Cliff Richard, The British Elvis

“DID Franco’s Spain rig Eurovision and cheat Cliff Richard out of a win?” asks the Daily Mail’s David Wigg.

Cliff, who has enjoyed hits in three millennia, has outlived bigger foes than General Franco. But can it be that the Spanish dictator fixed it so that Cliff’s Congratulations! lost the Tepid War of Eurovision by a single point to Spain’s Massiel’s forgettable La La La?

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Posted: 30th, January 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (8)


Lloyd Webber’s Eurovision Of Hell

COLUMNIST insight of the day: Sue Carroll on Eurovision:

Just because Andrew Lloyd Webber will compose Britain’s entry for next year’s Eurovision song contest, do not assume the show is in the bag

Well, OK, then…

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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (8)


Neo Nazi Austrians Champion English

THOSE Germans (Anorak subscribes to the Eurovision school of politiks and includes under the umbrella term ‘German’, Austrians, Swiss and some of Paraguay’s smartest districts).

In the Guardian’s article on a “surge in support for far right” in Austria threatens to make the country a haven of closested neo-Nazia (plus ca change), readers hear from one Karl Friedrich.

Karl is “proud to live in Karl Marx Hof, Vienna’s vast monument to municipal socialism. But not as proud as he used to be.”

Oh?

“We had great times here. There were artists and writers all around. Great parties. They’re all gone now,” says the former communist. “Now half the families in my block are immigrants. They can’t speak German. They can’t even speak English.”

Yeah, they can;t even speak English in Vienna. The swine.

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Posted: 25th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comment