Month: August 2004

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Bucks Fizz tour dates announced

As previously reported on esctoday.com, Bucks Fizz will be reuniting for the Here and Now tour in December this year. The tour sees the coming together of several successful acts…

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Alsou to record Chelsea song

The Eurovision Song Contest runner-up of the year 2000, Russian singer Alsou, has been asked to record a new song for the English soccer team Chelsea. Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich…

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Chris Doran releases cover as new single

This year's Irish Eurovision Song Contest participant Chris Doran releases new work on 3rd September. For the follow up single of his Eurovision entry If my world stopped turning, he…

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Modersmål-Selskabet criticizes DR

Danish broadcaster DR published the new rules for Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2005 last week. A remarkable change was the tolerance of lyrics in all languages, something that wasn't well…

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Charlotte aggrieved by the way SVT treated her

After winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem in 1999, Charlotte Perelli (Nilsson) looked forward to having an important role at the first Eurovision Song Contest of the new millennium….

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Céline Dion best selling Canadian

Céline Dion is the best selling Canadian artist of the last decade. The 1988 Eurovision Song Contest winner occupies the first spot of a ranking published by the Canadian magazine…

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Belle Perez wins Zomerhit 2004 award

Flemish radio station Radio 2 broadcast its annual summer hit award show Zomerhit tonight. The most popular Flemish artists, including many former Eurosong participants, competed for the Zomerhit 2004 trophy…

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Dschinghis Khan: The jubilee album

This year it is 25 years since Dschinghis Khan represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest–a good reason for Jupiter Records to release a compilation album with their biggest hits….