Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Corrected entry: When Abba sing Waterloo in 1974, it was mandatory to sing in your own language, so they should be singing it in Swedish, not English, like it was in the movie. (00:01:30)

Triviani

Correction: The performance shown in the film is the real one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsVeMz1F5c. The rule mandating use of national language was only implemented in 1977, and scrapped in 1998.

Jon Sandys

Factual error: During the semi finals of Eurovision there is no voting procedure like in the final with every single country presenting its jury vote. Instead, only the ten qualifiers for the final are named in a random order.

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Graham Norton: OK, so not as bad as we expected.

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Trivia: Iceland has never yet won the Eurovision song contest.

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