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Alma Lusa take part in a photo shoot for a number of Portuguese magazines a few hours before live transmission. Inês Santos was the lead singer, and in one of her press conferences sang a little of Nothing Compares To U, which she had sung to win the Portuguese Soundmix (Stars in their eyes) show. This is a fairly rare shot - at no Press Conference did she wear the beautiful stage dress, and only wore it for stage performances. |
Gunvor represented Switzerland
Gunvor in that dress
- she rehearsed before the Press Conference, and we noticed the dress
was transparent - you could see her dark underwear from our seating positions. |
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Lars A Fredriksen represented Norway The Norwegians broke with tradition and held a party in the afternoon in a local pub. This seemed a little odd, as Lars was a confirmed tee-totaller, but he did an excellent set of songs, some gospel-inspired, to show off his talent, if not his dress sense. |
Dionysia & Vlado in the post event party Dana had won, so let's party, and while Dionysia for Greece and Vlado for FY Macedonia improved Balkan relations, the set was being torn down in preparation for the G8 summit - a somewhat smaller affair.
Soon President Bill Clinton was drinking in the pub we'd been in, but I'm sure it was less fun. |
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Dawn Martin singing for Ireland
Still there's always time for
another drink, and Dawn Martin was ready to drink it. |
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All a distant memory now, but now there's only a few days to the 1999 contest, and who knows just what that will bring. The Eurovision Database will be covering it again, so keep surfing!