May 24, 1956
Seven countries participate in the first edition, at the Kursaal in Lugano. With Lys Assia and her song RefrainSwitzerland wins. Music intellectuals are not embarrassed to denigrate the event, predict him a quick death. The future will prove the opposite.
Founder of the Eurosong, then later from the Rose d’Or de Montreux, Marcel Bezençon had seen right: Le Vaudois, who was inspired by the San Remo festival, dreamed of a united Europe around culture and entertainment. Almost 70 years later, Eurovision is still there.
12 mars 1958
In Hilversum, the Netherlands, the victory is French with André Claveau and his Dors, my love. But it is the song of the Italian Domenico Modugno, third, which will remain engraved in the memories: his In the blue painted blueeven today, remains the most played and broadcast Eurovision song around the world. Doesn’t that tell you anything, really? So here
Fly oh, oh
Sing oh, oh
In the blue painted blue
Happy to be up there
And I was flying, I flown happy higher than the sun
And even higher
While the world slowly disappeared far away
Sweet music sounded only for me
It’s good, are you there?
20 mars 1965
France Gall is only 17 years old and her juvenile innocence when she triumphs in Naples – for Luxembourg – with Sound doll wax doll that Serge Gainsbourg wrote to him.
