I've put this thread on here, rather than on the Tipsheet forum, because it really is more of an EVENT than a music contest. Especially this year: not a hit song in sight but great entertainment, good fun, bringing happiness and joy to billions in a time when we really need it. My favourites from SEMI ONE were Malta and Ukraine.

I put this up on Facebook - many ex music industry people seem to favour that site.

Interesting that Eurovision was everything The Brits should have been but weren't. Colourful, fun, atmospheric, entertaining. I've run both and reckon, during my stints, I managed to make both events succeed. First - it's a TV show so must hook in millions of viewers. Second - keep the ingredients short; lots of colours; lots of visual imagination. Third - only use real cross over mass appeal hits (not easy). Fourth - have the odd surprise (Maggie singing How Much Is That Doggy... Rod Stewart surprising everyone singing Downtown Train). and Fifth, for me - boost sales and interest in music - all music, all styles, all qualities.

This is why I would be dreadful at making money in the music biz as I would consider it a public service to force everyone to listen to the brilliant Tom Waits original of Downtown Train (one of my all time fave songs) rather than the slick more instantly accessible but ultimately shallow Rod cover.

I would starve in a garrett in the music biz

Not at all Wyot. Both are worth hearing. Bob Dylan's wonderful Just Like A Woman is the original but my version was a perfectly acceptable interpretation and had Ginger Baker on Drums. I prefer Dolly's I Will Always but also adored Whitney's interpretation. Hear both, love both, sign both.

Yes you are right; I can over-think these things!

JK2006 wrote:
Not at all Wyot. Both are worth hearing. Bob Dylan's wonderful Just Like A Woman is the original but my version was a perfectly acceptable interpretation and had Ginger Baker on Drums. I prefer Dolly's I Will Always but also adored Whitney's interpretation. Hear both, love both, sign both.

I lurve Eurovision.

re Dylan- I'm sick of explaining to people Adele's Make You Feel My Love was written by Dylan and not her.He's such an amazing writer.

Is Adele boring? She is to me. Good luck to her though.

I actually like Denmarks' entry. Takes me back to the fabulous 1980s. Reminds me of Erasure, The Communards and the same dress sense as Crockett and Tubbs.

Can someone give please Wyot a Grange Hill annual and the DVD box set to Miami Vice. Or at least a copy No Parlez by Paul Young.