Eurovision Song Contest 1972

Eurovision Song Contest 1972
Dates
Final	25 March 1972
Host
Venue	Usher Hall Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Presenter(s)	Moira Shearer
Musical director	Malcolm Lockyer
Directed by	Terry Hughes
Executive supervisor	Clifford Brown
Executive producer	Bill Cotton
Host broadcaster	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1972
Vote
Voting system	Two-member juries (one aged 16 to 25 and the other 25 to 55) rated songs between one and five points.
Winning song	Luxembourg " Après toi "
1971 ←  Eurovision Song Contest  → 1973

The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Edinburgh, United Kingdom and was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who agreed to stage the event after Monaco, who won in 1971, were unable to meet the demands of hosting the event and could not find a suitable venue. The contest was held at the Usher Hall on 25 March 1972 and was hosted by Scottish ballet dancer Moira Shearer.

Eighteen countries took part in the contest, the same countries as the previous year.

The winner was Luxembourg with the song " Après toi ", performed by Vicky Leandros, with lyrics by Yves Dessca, and music composed by Mario Panas (which was the writing pseudonym of Vicky's father Leo Leandros). "Après toi" became the winner with the lowest percentage of the total vote, winning with just 8.30% of the points available. Yves Dessca also wrote " Un banc, un arbre, une rue " that had won the previous edition, and became the second person to win the contest twice, the first person to win for two different countries and the first person to win two years in a row. ^[1] Germany finished in third place for the third consecutive year, equalling their highest placement from the previous two editions.

Location

Usher Hall, Edinburgh – host venue of the 1972 contest.

Following Séverine's win for Monaco at the 1971 contest in Dublin, Ireland with the song " Un banc, un arbre, une rue ", the principality were unable to meet the demands of hosting the event. Rainier III of Monaco received a letter from the European Broadcasting Union about hosting the 1972 contest in the principality, but he was unable to provide a venue, the props and the remainder of the requirements. Therefore the BBC from the United Kingdom stepped in, and chose to stage the contest in Edinburgh, making it the first of five times that the BBC had chosen a venue outside London with the 1974, 1982, 1998 and 2023 contests held in Brighton, Harrogate, Birmingham and Liverpool respectively. It is also the only time that the contest has been held in Scotland. It is the only UK hosted Eurovision Song Contest to have been held outside England as of 2024.

The Usher Hall, the venue for the 1972 contest, is a concert hall, situated on Lothian Road, in the west end of the city. It has hosted concerts and events since its construction in 1914 and can hold approximately 2,900 ^[2] people in its recently restored auditorium, which is well loved by performers due to its acoustics. The Hall is flanked by The Royal Lyceum Theatre on the right and The Traverse Theatre on the left. Historic Scotland has registered the Hall with Category A listed building status.

Participating countries

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1972 –Participation summaries by country
Austria Belgium Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Yugoslavia

The same countries that participated in the 1971 contest were present this year.

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Austria	ORF	The Milestones	"Falter im Wind"	German	Manuel Rigoni Richard Schönherz Heinz Unger	Erich Kleinschuster
Belgium	RTB	Serge and Christine Ghisoland	"À la folie ou pas du tout"	French	Bob Milan Daniël Nelis	Henri Segers
Finland	YLE	Päivi Paunu and Kim Floor	"Muistathan"	Finnish	Juha Flinck Nacke Johansson	Ossi Runne
France	ORTF	Betty Mars	"Comé-comédie"	French	Frédéric Botton	Franck Pourcel
Germany	SFB [lower-alpha 1]	Mary Roos	"Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben"	German	Joachim Heider Joachim Relin	Paul Kuhn
Ireland	RTÉ	Sandie Jones	"Ceol an Ghrá"	Irish	Joe Burkett Liam Mac Uistín	Colman Pearce
Italy	RAI	Nicola Di Bari	" I giorni dell'arcobaleno "	Italian	Nicola Di Bari Dalmazio Masini Piero Pintucci	Gian Franco Reverberi
Luxembourg	CLT	Vicky Leandros	" Après toi "	French	Yves Dessca Klaus Munro Mario Panas	Klaus Munro
Malta	MBA	Helen and Joseph	"L-imħabba"	Maltese	Albert Cassola Charles Camilleri	Charles Camilleri
Monaco	TMC	Anne-Marie Godart and Peter MacLane	"Comme on s'aime"	French	Raymond Bernard Jean Dréjac	Raymond Bernard
Netherlands	NOS	Sandra and Andres	"Als het om de liefde gaat"	Dutch	Hans van Hemert Dries Holten	Harry van Hoof
Norway	NRK	Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg	"Småting"	Norwegian	Ivar Børsum Kåre Grøttum	Carsten Klouman
Portugal	RTP	Carlos Mendes	"A festa da vida"	Portuguese	José Calvário José Niza	Richard Hill
Spain	TVE	Jaime Morey	"Amanece"	Spanish	Augusto Algueró Ramón Arcusa	Augusto Algueró
Sweden	SR	The Family Four	"Härliga sommardag"	Swedish	Håkan Elmquist	Mats Olsson
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Véronique Müller	"C'est la chanson de mon amour"	French	Catherine Desage Véronique Müller	Jean-Pierre Festi
United Kingdom	BBC	The New Seekers	"Beg, Steal or Borrow"	English	Tony Cole Graeme Hall Steve Wolfe	David Mackay
Yugoslavia	JRT	Tereza	"Muzika i ti" (Музика и ти)	Serbo-Croatian	Nikica Kalogjera Ivica Krajač	Nikica Kalogjera

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Tereza Kesovija	Yugoslavia	1966 (for   Monaco )
Vicky Leandros	Luxembourg	1967
Carlos Mendes	Portugal	1968
Family Four	Sweden	1971

Contest overview

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 ^[8]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Germany	Mary Roos	"Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben"	107	3
2	France	Betty Mars	"Comé-comédie"	81	11
3	Ireland	Sandie Jones	"Ceol an Ghrá"	72	15
4	Spain	Jaime Morey	"Amanece"	83	10
5	United Kingdom	The New Seekers	"Beg, Steal or Borrow"	114	2
6	Norway	Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg	"Småting"	73	14
7	Portugal	Carlos Mendes	"A festa da vida"	90	7
8	Switzerland	Véronique Müller	"C'est la chanson de mon amour"	88	8
9	Malta	Helen and Joseph	"L-imħabba"	48	18
10	Finland	Päivi Paunu and Kim Floor	"Muistathan"	78	12
11	Austria	The Milestones	"Falter im Wind"	100	5
12	Italy	Nicola Di Bari	" I giorni dell'arcobaleno "	92	6
13	Yugoslavia	Tereza	"Muzika i ti"	87	9
14	Sweden	The Family Four	"Härliga sommardag"	75	13
15	Monaco	Anne-Marie Godart and Peter MacLane	"Comme on s'aime"	65	16
16	Belgium	Serge and Christine Ghisoland	"À la folie ou pas du tout"	55	17
17	Luxembourg	Vicky Leandros	" Après toi "	128	1
18	Netherlands	Sandra and Andres	"Als het om de liefde gaat"	106	4

Detailed voting results

Each country had two jury members, one aged between 16 and 25 and one aged between 26 and 55. They each awarded 1 to 5 points for each song, other than the song of their own country. They cast their votes immediately after each song was performed and the votes were then collected and counted. For the public voting sequence after the interval act, the jury members were shown on the stage's screen with each lifting a signboard with the number between 1 and 5 for each song, as a visual verification of the scores they had awarded earlier.

Detailed voting results ^{[9] [10]}

		Total score	Germany	France	Ireland	Spain	United Kingdom	Norway	Portugal	Switzerland	Malta	Finland	Austria	Italy	Yugoslavia	Sweden	Monaco	Belgium	Luxembourg	Netherlands
Contestants	Germany	107		8	6	9	5	6	6	5	4	5	5	7	5	8	8	7	7	6
	France	81	5		5	2	9	7	2	3	5	4	2	3	5	2	6	7	8	6
	Ireland	72	4	3		4	4	6	4	3	6	3	4	3	3	5	5	4	6	5
	Spain	83	7	5	5		3	8	6	3	4	4	5	3	2	7	8	3	5	5
	United Kingdom	114	8	9	6	2		10	4	8	2	7	7	7	9	6	9	4	8	8
	Norway	73	4	3	6	5	4		5	2	5	7	3	2	5	4	4	4	6	4
	Portugal	90	3	4	7	7	4	2		6	5	2	4	9	4	7	4	7	10	5
	Switzerland	88	4	5	6	5	4	7	2		4	7	8	5	5	4	6	4	7	5
	Malta	48	3	2	4	2	6	2	2	2		5	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	4
	Finland	78	4	3	3	6	5	6	4	3	3		3	3	4	4	5	8	6	8
	Austria	100	6	6	6	6	3	5	5	7	5	4		6	8	10	5	4	5	9
	Italy	92	4	5	3	2	3	6	7	9	6	6	6		4	8	6	6	6	5
	Yugoslavia	87	7	4	5	8	5	4	5	2	4	3	3	2		4	9	8	8	6
	Sweden	75	5	3	5	3	3	5	4	2	4	5	4	3	7		5	7	5	5
	Monaco	65	4	3	4	3	5	6	2	2	5	5	3	3	4	3		4	4	5
	Belgium	55	2	3	4	2	5	2	3	3	5	4	2	3	2	2	4		6	3
	Luxembourg	128	9	8	9	2	10	8	7	6	4	6	8	9	10	8	7	8		9
	Netherlands	106	6	6	8	8	9	8	5	6	3	9	6	3	9	6	5	2	7

10 points

Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 10 points
2	Luxembourg	United Kingdom ,   Yugoslavia
1	Austria	Sweden
	Portugal	Luxembourg
	United Kingdom	Norway

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. ^[11]

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Brazil, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Zaire. ^{[12] [13]}

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	ORF	FS2	Ernst Grissemann	[14] [15]
Belgium	RTB	RTB		[16] [17]
	BRT	BRT		[17]
Finland	YLE	TV-ohjelma 1		[18]
		Yleisohjelma  [ fi ]	Matti Paalosmaa  [ fi ]
		Ruotsinkielinen ohjelma	Åke Grandell  [ fi ]
France	ORTF	Première Chaîne	Pierre Tchernia	[16] [19]
Germany	ARD	Deutsches Fernsehen		[20] [16]
Ireland	RTÉ	RTÉ	Mike Murphy	[21] [22]
		RTÉ Radio		[23]
Italy	RAI	Programma Nazionale , Secondo Programma	Renato Tagliani  [ it ]	[24] [25]
Luxembourg	CLT	Télé-Luxembourg	Jacques Navadic	[16] [26]
Malta	MBA	MTS, National Network	Norman Hamilton	[27] [28]
Monaco	Télé Monte-Carlo
Netherlands	NOS	Nederland 1	Pim Jacobs	[17] [29]
Norway	NRK	NRK Fjernsynet , NRK	Roald Øyen	[30]
Portugal	RTP	I Programa		[31]
Spain	TVE	TVE 1	Julio Rico	[32]
	RNE	Radio Nacional		[32]
Sweden	SR	TV1	Bo Billtén  [ sv ]	[18] [30] [33]
		SR P3	Björn Bjelfvenstam
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Theodor Haller  [ de ]	[20]
		TSR	Georges Hardy  [ fr ]	[19]
		TSI		[34]
		DRS 1 [lower-alpha 2]		[35]
		RSR 2	Robert Burnier	[36]
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC1	Tom Fleming	[4] [37]
		BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2	Pete Murray	[4] [38] [39]
	BFBS	BFBS Radio	Terry James	[4]
Yugoslavia	JRT	TV Beograd 1		[40]
		TV Ljubljana 1  [ sl ]		[41]
		TV Zagreb 1		[42]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Czechoslovakia	ČST	ČST2	Blažena Kočtúchová	[43]
Hungary	MTV	MTV [lower-alpha 3]		[44]
Iceland	RÚV	Sjónvarpið [lower-alpha 4]	Björn Matthíasson	[45]

Notes

1. On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD ^[7]
2. Delayed broadcast on 27 March 1972 at 22:30 CET (21:30 UTC) ^[35]
3. Delayed broadcast on 5 April 1972 at 20:45 CET (21:45 UTC) ^[44]
4. Delayed broadcast on 17 April 1972 at 20:30 WET (20:30 UTC) ^[45]

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External links

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