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Rock 'n' Roll Kids

Eurovision Song Contest
SongIreland Rock 'n' Roll Kids
Year1994
CountryIreland
ArtistPaul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan
LanguageEnglish
ComposerBrendan Graham
LyricistBrendan Graham ( after Dino Rocha give him the rights)
Conductornone
Finals performance
Final result1st
Final points226
prevIn Your Eyes
nextDreamin'

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"Rock 'n' Roll Kids" was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, composed by Brendan Graham and performed for Ireland by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan. The song was Ireland's sixth overall victory, and represented an unprecedented third consecutive time that the same country had won the Contest.

There is a belief among many Eurovision fans that the song was deliberately chosen not to win, as it was performed by a male duo (no male duos had ever won before) and in a very static manner. The pair were also much older than any other winners had been. As the Contest rules require the previous year's winner to host the next edition of the Contest, the argument runs that the Irish broadcaster was not prepared to do this, hence the selection.

The song, however, achieved the victory and is generally considered one of the Contest's better entries - being performed in part by McGettigan and Jakob Sveistrup at the Congratulations special in late 2005. It was the first winning song ever to be performed without orchestral accompaniment, as McGettigan's guitar and Harrington's piano were the only instruments needed. It was also the first time in the contest when a song scored over 200 points.

Lyrically, the song is a lament for the singers' lost youths. They remember growing up and listening to the popular music of the time (Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley) and generally being trendy. The song then moves forwards to the present, where both men are "too busy running to a different beat" to even stay in close contact with each other - while their children "don't wanna be around us no more".

The song was performed third on the night, following Finland's CatCat with "Bye Bye Baby" and preceding Cyprus' Evridiki with "Ime Anthropos Ki Ego". At the close of voting, it had received 226 points, placing 1st in a field of 25.

The song was succeeded as winner in 1995 by the Irish-Norwegian duo Secret Garden representing Norway with "Nocturne". It was succeeded as Irish representative at the 1995 Contest by Eddie Friel with "Dreamin'".











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Preceded by
In Your Eyes by Niamh Kavanagh
Eurovision Song Contest winners
1994
Succeeded by
Nocturne by Secret Garden


Eurovision Song Contest winning songs

1950s"Refrain" * "Net als toen" * "Dors, mon amour" * "Een beetje"
1960s"Tom Pillibi" * "Nous les amoureux" * "Un premier amour" * "Dansevise" * "Non ho l'età" * "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" * "Merci, Chérie" * "Puppet on a String" * "La, la, la" * "Boom Bang-a-Bang" * "Un jour, un enfant" * "De troubadour" * "Vivo cantando"
1970s"All Kinds of Everything" * "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" * "Après toi" * "Tu te reconnaîtras" * "Waterloo" * "Ding-A-Dong" * "Save Your Kisses for Me" * "L'oiseau et l'enfant" * "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" * "Hallelujah"
1980s"What's Another Year" * "Making Your Mind Up" * "Ein bißchen Frieden" * "Si la vie est cadeau" * "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" * "La det swinge" * "J'aime la vie" * "Hold Me Now" * "Ne partez pas sans moi" * "Rock Me"
1990s"Insieme: 1992" * "Fångad av en stormvind" * "Why Me?" * "In Your Eyes" * "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" * "Nocturne" * "The Voice" * "Love Shine a Light" * "Diva" * "Take Me to Your Heaven"
2000s"Fly on the Wings of Love" * "Everybody" * "I Wanna" * "Everyway That I Can" * "Wild Dances" * "My Number One" * "Hard Rock Hallelujah" * "Molitva" * "Believe" * "Fairytale"
2010s"Satellite"

Songs of the Eurovision Song Contest 1994

1. "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" * 2. "To nie ja!" * 3. "Wir geben 'ne Party" * 4. "Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet?" * 5. "More than Love" * 6. "Duett" * 7. "Je suis un vrai garçon" * 8. "Chamar a música" * 9. "Vyechniy stranik" * 10. "We Will Be Free (Lonely Symphony)" * 11. "Ime Anthropos Ki Ego" * 12. "Nætur" * 13. "Stjärnorna" * 14. "To Trehandiri" * 15. "Ostani kraj mene" * 16. "Nek' ti bude ljubav sva" * 17. "Für den Frieden der Welt" * 18. "Ella no es ella" * 19. "Sto pregando" * 19. "Nekonečná pieseň" * 21. "Dincolo de nori" * 22. "Bye Bye Baby" * 23. "Waar is de zon?" * 24. "Nagu merelaine" * 25. "Lopšinė mylimai"



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