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More than you'd think Baz (well, more than I thunk, anyway). From the Guardian...
· Norway are, of course, the nul points champions. The most notorious of their four nul-pointers is Jahn Teigen, who in 1978 performed a song called Mile After Mile. His routine included doing the splits in mid-air while snapping his braces. Teigen called his Eurovision failure "the proudest moment of my life" and anticipated it would make him a star. It did not and he now owns a brewery
· The nul point pioneer was Fud Leclercq, representing Belgium in 1962, with a ditty called Your Name
· Finland has notched a hat-trick of no scores over the years. In 1982 Kojo performed a song protesting about the building of a nuclear power station while hitting himself over the head. Nobody voted for him
· In 1983 Spain's Remedios Amaya performed bare-footed à la Sandie Shaw. In contrast to Shaw who won in 1967 with Puppet on a String he failed to trouble the scorers
· In 1994 Lithunania's Lopsine Mylimai failed to pick up a point. The Guardian's reviewer said he had "the smallish, gruff voice popularised by Phil Mitchell in EastEnders"
· Portugal have twice scored nul points, most recently in 1997 when singer Alma Lusa was backed by male dancers in sinister wrap-around sunglasses and Mao-style collars
· In 1998 there was a stark contrast between the Israeli winner, the transsexual Dana International, and the Swiss entry, Gunvor Guggisberg, a middle-class tap-dancing champion. Guggisberg left with nul points
· Germany was thought to have a nul point cert in Guildo Horn, a flamboyant caped warbler five years ago. But after a campaign led by a DJ, Germans flocked into neighbouring countries to get round the rule forbidding viewers from voting for their country's own entry. He came in a creditable seventh. |
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