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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alexis Petridis

All 69 Eurovision song contest winners – ranked!

Conchita Wurst of Austria singing the winning Rise Like a Phoenix at 2014’s Eurovision Song Contest
Conchita Wurst of Austria singing the winning Rise Like a Phoenix at 2014’s Eurovision Song Contest. Photograph: Ragnar Singsaas/Getty Images

69. The Herrey’s – Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley (Sweden, 1984)

With respect to the Herrey’s – three clean-cut brothers and one rogue apostrophe – Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley sounds like the result of an experiment to deliberately synthesise an abysmal Eurovision entry. Antiseptic sound, meaningless title, mind-boggling lyrics – some frightful old balls about magical golden shoes – and a chorus that brings about a complete collapse of the will to live.

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