Eurovision Song Contest 1974
Date(s)	6 April 1974
Presenter(s)	Katie Boyle
Conductor	Nick Ingman
Host broadcaster	BBC
Venue	The Dome, Brighton, United Kingdom
Winning song	Sweden "Waterloo"
Voting system	Each country had 10 jurors who could all give 1 vote to their favourite song. So each country divided 10 points freely among the other participants.
Number of entries	17
Debuting countries	Greece
Returning countries	None
Withdrawing countries	France
Null points	None
Interval act	The Wombles

The Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in the seaside resort of Brighton on the south coast of the United Kingdom. The BBC agreed to stage the event after Luxembourg, having won in both 1972 and 1973, declined on the grounds of expense to host the contest for a second consecutive year. is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Catherine Katie Boyle was a television presenter, well known for presenting Whats My Line?. She also was the presenter for the 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974 Eurovision Song Contests. ... Nick Ingman is an easy listening orchestra conductor and composer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... The Brighton Dome is a building complex in Brighton that contains the Concert Hall, Corn Exchange and the Pavilion Theatre. ... Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... Waterloo was the first single from ABBAs second album Waterloo, their first for Epic and Atlantic. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Greece. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This article is about the fictional creatures. ... The modern logo was introduced for the 2004 Contest (in Istanbul) to create a consistent visual identity. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the seventeenth Eurovision. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 1973 was the eighteenth Eurovision and was held on April 7, 1973 in Luxembourg. ...

The winner was the Swedish quartet ABBA (singing the song "Waterloo"), who went to become one of the most popular singing groups of all time. Along with 1988 winner Celine Dion, ABBA are among the few Eurovision winners to achieve international superstar status. Sweden's win was their first. “Abba” redirects here. ... Waterloo was the first single from ABBAs second album Waterloo, their first for Epic and Atlantic. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 1988 was the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on April 30, 1988 in Dublin. ... Céline Marie Claudette Dion, OC, OQ, (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian pop singer and occasional songwriter. ... This is about the Arabic television series. ...

Controversies and political events

• The United Kingdom was represented in the contest was the British/Australian pop singer Olivia Newton-John, who came fourth with the song "Long Live Love". She had wanted to perform a different song in the contest but "Long Live Love" was chosen as the UK's entry by a public postal vote.

• France had been going to enter this Eurovision with the song "La vie à vingt-cinq ans" by Dani, but they withdrew after the French president, Georges Pompidou, died in the week of the contest.

• Malta withdrew from the contest for unknown reasons, but had selected Enzo Guzman with the song 'Paċi Fid Dinja' (Peace in the World) to represent them. The singer has confirmed this to be the case. Malta would return to the competition in 1975.

• Italy refused to broadcast the televised contest on the state television channel RAI because of a song sung by Gigliola Cinquetti which coincided with the intense political campaigning for the 1974 Italian referendum on divorce which was held a month later in May. Despite the Eurovision contest taking place more than a month before the planned vote and despite Cinquetti going as far as winning second place, Italian censors refused to allow the contest and song to be shown or heard. Rai censors felt the song which was titled "Sì" (meaning YES), and which contained lyrics constantly repeating the word "SI" (yes) could be accused of being a subliminal message and a form of propaganda to influence the Italian voting public to vote "YES" in the referendum. The song remained censored on most Italian state TV and radio stations for over a month.

• Portugal's entry "E depois do adeus" was used as one of the two signals to launch the Carnation Revolution against the Estado Novo regime. The song alerted the rebel captains and soldiers to begin the coup and the tanks of the left-wing military coup to move in. John Kennedy O'Connor, describes it as "the only Eurovision entry to have actually started a revolution", while Des Mangan suggests that other Portuguese entries (he mentions 1998's "Se Eu Te Pudesse Abraçar") would not be likely to inspire coups.

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Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English Translation	Place	Points
01	Finland	English	Carita	Keep Me Warm	-	13	4
02	United Kingdom	English	Olivia Newton-John	Long Live Love	-	4	14
03	Spain	Spanish	Peret (Pedro Pubill Callaf)	Canta Y Sé Feliz	Sing And Be Happy	9	10
04	Norway	English	Anne Karine Strøm	The First Day Of Love	-	14	3
05	Greece	Greek	Marinella	Krasi, Thalasa Ke T' Agori Mu	Wine, Sea And My Boyfriend	11	7
06	Israel	Hebrew	Kaveret	Natati La Khayay	I Gave Her My Life	7	11
07	Yugoslavia	Serbian	Korni Grupa	Generacija 42	Generation '42	12	6
08	Sweden	English	ABBA	Waterloo	-	1	24
09	Luxembourg	English, French	Ireen Sheer	Bye Bye I Love You	-	4	14
10	Monaco	French	Romuald	Celui Qui Reste Et Celui Qui S'En Va	The One Who Stays And The One Who Leaves	4	14
11	Belgium	French	Jacques Hustin	Fleur De Liberté	Flower of Freedom	9	10
12	Netherlands	English	Mouth and MacNeal	I See A Star	-	3	15
13	Ireland	English	Tina Reynolds	Cross Your Heart	-	7	11
14	Germany	German	Cindy and Bert	Die Sommermelodie	The Melody of Summer	14	3
15	Switzerland	German	Piera Martell	Mein Ruf Nach Dir	My Cry For You	14	3
16	Portugal	Portuguese	Paulo de Carvalho	E depois do adeus	After The Goodbye	14	3
17	Italy	Italian	Gigliola Cinquetti	Si	Yes	2	18

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Score sheet

		Juries
	Finland		1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	United Kingdom	1		0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	3
	Spain	0	0		2	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	2	0
	Norway	0	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Greece	0	0	0	0		0	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	0
	Israel	0	2	0	0	0		0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	3
	Yugoslavia	1	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
	Sweden	5	0	1	2	0	2	1		1	0	0	3	1	2	5	1	0
	Luxembourg	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	0		1	1	0	3	1	0	0	2
	Monaco	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	2		2	0	1	2	1	1	0
	Belgium	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	0	3	0		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1	2	1	3	3	0	0	1		1	1	0	1	0
	Ireland	0	1	2	2	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	0		0	0	0	0
	Germany	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		1	0	0
	Switzerland	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1		0	0
	Portugal	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2		0
	Italy	2	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	1	0	1	0	0	1
The table is ordered by appearance.

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Map

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• Green = Participating countries
• Yellow = Countries who have participated in the past but didn't this year