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[[File:Eurovision song contest.webp | 200px | right | thumb |Eurovision Song Contest]] [[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Film and Television]] [[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Music]] == Relevance == A known formative influence for Morrissey.<br> Various Eurovision participants have featured in pre-show reels.<br> It has featured Morrissey influences such as:<br> [[Mention::Cliff Richard]], [[Mention::Sandie Shaw]], [[Mention::Olivia Newton-John]] and [[Mention::Lulu]].<br> In 2007, the [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6244153.stm BBC reported] they were in talks with Morrissey regarding a song for the competition (which came to nothing).<br> In Autobiography, Morrissey recalls: <blockquote> "In telly-land, Miss World and the Eurovision Song Contest are the highlights of each passing year, not only because they are competitions, but because we who know so little are allowed a view of the greater world. I recall Miss Brazil in 1970 waving at the camera as she walked into the final, and it was she alone who made me wonder about Brazil. I recall Spain beating the United Kingdom by one vote in the dying seconds of the very last count in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1968, and thus I wondered about Spain β my jotter on my knee, my own private scoring system profoundly at odds with the final result. There is no such thing as Mr World, perversely enough." </blockquote>
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