Ah Eurovision. The marmite of musical talent competitions, some may say - you are either pretty obsessed with it or you cannot stand the show that has been going for over 60 years. Either way, it's a decades old music competition that has the world talking each May - be that about the outrageous outfits, dance routines or wacky - or wonderful - songs performed.
The competition has been going since 1956 and was originally designed to unite European countries through cross-border television broadcasts following the second world war and began as "as a technical experiment in television: the live, simultaneous, transnational broadcast," as stated on the official Eurovision Song Contest's website.
Only seven countries took part in the first ever competition - the UK not being one of them as they were occupied with their own contest at the time - the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg and Italy with it first host being Switzerland.
