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October 23

Vicky Leandros

Why did Vicky Leandros represent Luxembourg in the 1967 and 1972 Eurovision Song Contests, winning the latter, despite being born in Greece to Greek parents? --Viennese Waltz 15:12, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

According to Eurovision Song Contest#Other:

There is no restriction imposed by the EBU on the nationality of the performers or songwriters. Individual broadcasters are, however, permitted to impose their own restrictions at their discretion.

From the article it appears that the contestants are countries, not performers, and the entries are songs, not performances. For example, the article says that Céline Dion ... won for Switzerland in 1988 with "Ne partez pas sans moi".

The article on Vicky Leandros says that she was living in Germany at the time, and that

In 1967, she received an offer to sing for Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "L'amour est bleu".

So apparently Luxembourg just knew about her and asked her to sing it. Duoduoduo (talk) 15:51, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

According to the article on Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest, "Due to the country's small size and the national broadcaster's penchant for internal selection, most of Luxembourg's entrants came from outside the Grand Duchy, namely from France. All five of the winning artists from Luxembourg were foreign, four were French and one was Greek. Out of 38 entries in total and even more performers, only seven singers.. were native to Luxembourg." Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:41, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks both. --Viennese Waltz 07:47, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Does this copypasta song borrow another tune? (If so, what?)

I'm not sure that this tune is a true original. Does the Navy Seal Copypasta Musical borrow another tune? If so, please link it. Thanks. --99.179.74.108 (talk) 15:31, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

It's the four chord song in E♭, so it shares much the same chord progression as every pop song written ever in history ever by anyone ever. Ever. It's a copy in the same way that speaking English is copying Shakespeare. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 16:54, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

See List of songs containing the I-V-vi-IV progression for an all-too-brief list of this all-too-much-used progression. --Jayron32 17:45, 23 October 2013 (UTC)