3May
And so we come to the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest. It's remembered in the UK for the country's complete failure to score anything from any of the 25 other voting countries, but the BBC has failed to learn the lesson, and continued to send through rubbish performers singing stupid songs every year since. It's remembered in Turkey because they won, in Belgium because they nearly won, and in Russia because they sent Tatu. The biggest pop act of the time still managed to lose Eurovision, precisely because they hadn't bothered to rehearse. There were singing cats, Germans throwing shapes, Romanians with big disks, and Latvians advertising washing powder.
In seventh place that year came Poland. Keine grenzen - Zadnych granic
, performed by Ich Troje, was sung in German, Polish, and Russian. Rather appropriate for a song that goes on about there being "no borders" in the new Europe. The Eastern bloc loved it, the west was a bit colder. We reckon that it deserved a bit more recognition, as one of the best songs from what is probably the strongest Eurovision ever.
