Eurovision / A Greek festival and a historical review

Eurovision is a musical television festival that manages, at least at the local level, to give birth to dozens more festivals in the morning and midday panels of the television shows, whichall before and long after draw their subject matter around she and the passions and tragedies it evokes. Panelists turn into pundits on the televised pageant, usually analyzing the entries from the scores to the outfits, and at the same time doing some historical flashbacks to then competition to remind us of the successes and failures of the Greek missions. In other words, it has everything to talk about. Even political analysis please. Inside thisn the television paroxusmo, there are not a few times that we somehow succeeded.

The greatest hits

Greece, with 45 participations to its credit and 6 absences, managed, although it is not a favorite child of Eurovision and the countries that vote, to win its only first place so far in the competition with Elena Paparizou and the song “My number one” with music by Christos Dantis and lyrics by Natalia Germanos, a dance piece in English, with something like a lyre in the background and Elena Paparizou reminding on stage of a complete pop star completely compatible in this scene. And then, of course, after-songs as we see fit. Whose song is it, guys? The dispute over who is the composer of the particular song even reached the courts, and thus the victory in Kiev brought along this debate that fueled the television conversations for a long time. Finally the court decided the song is also by Manos Psaltakis.

Apart from this victory, however, we have come close to the finish a few but memorable times. In 1977 we finished in fifth place with Paschalis, Bessy Argyraki, Robert Williams and Marianna Toli and the infamous and now cult “Solfezz Course”. In 2001 in third place again with Paparizou and her then duet, Antique, with “I would die for you”. In 2004 with Sakis Rouvas and “Shake it” in the same position. In 2008 with Kalomira, the winner of our own domestic music reality show “Fame story”, who, like a domestic Britney Spears, somehow succeeded with her own “Secret Combination”.

The protest against the invasion of Cyprus

During the Junta, specifically in 1974, the rock group Nostradamus that was supposed to represent us was excluded due to a scandal after a lawsuit and Marinella took its place with “A little wine, a little sea and my boy”, which if and he didn’t like it there, we still like it here.

In 1975, a year of protest for us, we decided to stay away from itn competition due to Turkey’s participation inn contest with her invasion of Cyprus fresh at the time, while in 1976 the participation of Marisa Koch with the song “My Virgin Mary, My Virgin Mary” was also special, perhaps the most charged participation us with a clear denunciation of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. One of our most special entries remains that of Tania Tsanaklidou who reached 8th place with her song “Charlie Chaplin”, but her subsequent musical career probably makes us believe that she wants to forget, if not the song that had something, definitely her participation.

A dress that made history

And our big cards are not that they did better. This almost winning at times pushed Anna Vissi to Eurovision for the second time, who managed to enter the top ten and specifically in ninth place, proving that Eurovision is completely unpredictable and somewhat “what Lolostefani likes”. and things can prove difficult even for our “national” “ultimate” pop star.

Among the embittered artists who never got the commission from ERT and voice their pain on the panels, Kalomira who fervently asks for a second chance to bring the first but likes and supports Satti, we choose to remember the awesome, special and daring dress for the time by Kate Garbi, who since then knew exactly how to manage her image and herself communicatively and that is why she is still being talked about. This year things are even more charged. And that’s the fault of Marina Satti, who knows exactly how to attract ears and eyes to her.

Eso, for days now the almost single-theme morning and midday shows have been hunting everyone with their microphones for an opinion, they have taken down all those who have been on the Eurovision stage even once in the past, they are fighting for endless hours about her song Marina Satti, are divided into supporters and non-combatants, in order to be able to create the necessary dipoles that this project requireseooral television tradition.