Jürgen Marcus is tagged as: Eurovision Song Contest 1976 - The Hague|Entry for Luxembourg Performer: Jürgen Marcus|Song title: Chansons Pour Ceux Qui S’aiment|Song writer(s): Vline Buggy, Fred Jay|Song composer(s): Jack White Sang in Position: 5|Final Position: 14|Total Points: 17 After being host of the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest, Sweden withdrew from the contest as Swedish TV thought that the contest had become too commercial. They were also afraid of winning again and having to host the expensive show again. Turkey and Malta withdrew as well, but Greece and Austria returned, so altogether 18 countries participated in the 1976 song contest. Former Dutch Eurovision Song Contest winner Corry Brokken was the host of this year’s contest. The orchestra rules changed this year. For the first time, instrumental playback was allowed if certain passages in the music could not be reproduced by the live orchestra. Most of the countries decided to sing in English hoping that they might get a better placing with this. The Yugoslav entry was sung by Ambassadori and it marked the last Yugoslav entry for five years - the country would only come back in 1981. The United Kingdom succeeded in winning being first on stage - just as the Netherlands in the preceding year. The British winner Sa... Read More About Jürgen Marcus Biography...  Send Jürgen Marcus ringtones to your cell
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