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Encyclopedia > Rock Me

Rock Me was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed by Riva, representing Yugoslavia, the first and only time that this country would win the Contest. The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 was the 34th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 6, 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland. ... Riva was a pop band from Yugoslavia in the late 1980s. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, Југославија in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...


The song was performed in Croatian and is a song about music. Specifically, the song is about a man who can play the piano very well (as well as "Mozart, Chopin and Liszt") and who is asked by the singer to play something danceable.
During the BBC broadcast of the Congratulations special in late 2005, the commentator remarked that the title of the song can be heard roughly every ten seconds throughout it. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... Frédéric François Chopin as portrayed by Eugène Delacroix in 1838. ... Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a virtuoso pianist and composer. ... Katrina Leskanich and Renars Kaupers (before the contest) On October 22, 2005, the EBU held a celebration contest to commemorate 50 years of the Eurovision Song Contest called Congratulations. ...


The song was succeeded as winner in 1990 by Toto Cutugno representing Italy with Insieme: 1992. Toto Cutugno is an Italian singer, born in Fosdinovo, Italy on July, 7 1943). ...



 

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