The recent piece of news about a possible cheating by Franco to have Spain winning in Eurovision 1968 spreads in France, due to a Reuters press release.
SomeFrench media reported about it, including radio station “Europe 1” (in Morandini’s very successful daily program) as well as national radio broacaster, the very serious “France Inter”, in its18:00 eveningnews.
French 1968 representative herself was interviewed. Isabelle Aubret declared that “journalists should have told the truth 40 years ago”. She also said she considered both “La, la, la” and her performer, Massiel, as “of a poor quality”.
While singing a cappella a part of “La Source”, French singer claimed that “she was the one to deserve victory, if those cheatings didn’t occur”.
Isabelle Aubret gave France its third victory back in 1962, then placed third in 1968. She also took part in four televised finals (1961, 1970, 1976 and 1983) and her name can be found in a great number of internal selections along the 1960’s and the 1970’s in France.
Read esctoday.com's article on the controversy here.
Thanks to Alex Rouffignac for submitting this information to esctoday.com
