Greece 2002

Michalis Rakintzis will perform his own composition S.A.G.A.P.O. in Tallinn

The show was broadcast on ERT Sat (Hotbird satellite), but delayed, and thanks to mistiming by ERT we got to see the news programme with the result before we saw the contest!

Some terrible songs in here, perhaps cruel to single out any, but "Pension Sweet Home" had really bad English lyrics about somebody learning English. However songs 5 & 6 were good.

Of the winning song, Sagapo, well if you like Depeche Mode or Gary Numan you might like this faint copy. There's a Depeche Mode club in Tallinn, so a good place for any Greek party, I think.

The songs of the Greek Final 2002 broadcast 26 February:

Song No.	Title	Music & Lyrics	Performer
1	Let Me Be The One	Kostas Bigalis	Kostas Bigalis& Mirella Fragkopoulou
2	Tu non c'eri qui (You Were Not There)	Haralampos Persidis	Veroniki Bielitsa
3	Pension Sweet Home	Hristos Konstantinidis & Panagiotis Kalkos	Yiannis Kokkinos, Flora Theodorou, Ermioni Komninou, & Tolis Kokkinis
4	Proti fthinoporini vrohi (The First Autumn Rain)	Christos Yiannopoulos	Christos Yiannopoulos
5	Yia na maste mazi/To Be Together	Nikos Terzis & Antonis Pappas	Maria-Louisa (MLV) & Not 4 Sale
6	Love Is A Wonderful Thing	Thanos Kalliris	Pegky Zina
7	Beautiful Life / Omorfi zoi	Konstantinos Cheleste Papakonstantinou & Hro Trugoni	Elina Konstantopoulou & Marian Yeorgiou
8	S.A.G.A.P.O. (I.L.O.V.E.Y.O.U.)	Michalis Rakintzis	Michalis Rakintzis
9	Miazei na nai cinema / Y tu cruel (It Looks Like Cinema / And You The Cruel One)	Ioannis Stigkas, Dimitras Sotakis & Ksenofon Halatsis	Katerina Topazi
10	Fire	Yiannis Methenitis	Motive

Taking their cue from Sweden, they had a second round in the show. Five songs were voted on again:

If you have any news or updates on this country's National selection I'd like to hear about it. E-Mail me, Geoff Harrison, at my contact page

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