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The Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was the nineteenth Eurovision and was held on April 6, 1974, in the United Kingdom. With Katie Boyle as the presenter, the contest was won by ABBA who represented Sweden, with their song "Waterloo".

Representing the United Kingdom in Eurovision 1974 song contest was the British pop singer Olivia Newton-John, who came fourth with the song "Long Live Love". She didn't care to perform the song for the contest but it was the chosen song of the voters to represent the UK.

France was originally also going to enter this Eurovision with the song "La vie a vingt cinq ans" by Dani, but they withdrew because Georges Pompidou, the French president, died in the week of the contest.

On April 25, 1974, the Portuguese entry was used as the signal for the tanks of the left-wing military coup that otherthrew the fascist government to move in.

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Interval Act

The interval act was music by The Wombles.

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Results

Country	Artist(s)	Song	Place	Points
Belgium	Jacques Hustin	Fleur De Liberte	9	10
Finland	Carita	Keep Me Warm	13	4
Germany	Cindy and Bert	Die Sommermelodie	14	3
Greece	Marinella	Krassi, Thalassa Ke T'agori Mou	11	7
Ireland	Tina Reynolds	Cross Your Heart	7	11
Israel	Poogy	Natati La Khaiai	7	11
Italy	Gigliola Cinquetti	Si	2	18
Luxembourg	Ireen Sheer	Bye bye, I Love You	4	14
Monaco	Romuald	Celui Qui Reste Et Celui Qui S'en Va	4	14
Netherlands	Mouth and MacNeal	I See A Star	3	15
Norway	Anne Karine Stroem and The Bendik Singers	The First Day Of Love	14	3
Portugal	Paulo de Carvalho	E Depois Do Adeus	14	3
Spain	Peret (Pedro Pubill Callaf)	Canta Y Se Feliz	9	10
Sweden	ABBA	Waterloo	1	24
Switzerland	Piera Martell	Mein Ruf Nach Dir	14	3
United Kingdom	Olivia Newton-John	Long Live Love	4	14
Yugoslavia	Korni Group	Generacija 42	12	6
Venue: The Dome - Brighton, United Kingdom
The table is ordered by the countries names.

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First Appearances

Greece

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Voting Structure

Each Country had 10 Jury Members who each decided the best song and each awarded 1 point.

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Score Sheet

		Juries

	Finland		1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	United Kingdom	1		0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	3
	Spain	0	0		2	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	2	0
	Norway	0	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Greece	0	0	0	0		0	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	0
	Israel	0	2	0	0	0		0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	3
	Yugoslavia	1	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
	Sweden	5	0	1	2	0	2	1		1	0	0	3	1	2	5	1	0
	Luxembourg	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	0		1	1	0	3	1	0	0	2
	Monaco	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	2		2	0	1	2	1	1	0
	Belgium	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	0	3	0		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1	2	1	3	3	0	0	1		1	1	0	1	0
	Irealand	0	1	2	2	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	0		0	0	0	0
	Germany	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		1	0	0
	Switzerland	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1		0	0
	Portugal	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2		0
	Italy	2	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	1	0	1	0	0	1
The table is ordered by appearance.