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   <title>New Statesman - <![CDATA[Jonathan Rice]]></title>
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   <title><![CDATA[Franco's win at Eurovision...]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2008/05/eurovision-song-spain-franco</link>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 09:38:30 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Jonathan Rice</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>How <em>La La La</em> pipped <em>Congratulations</em> to first place at the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest. But was General Franco involved in thwarting Cliff Richard?</em></p>

<p>Forty years on, we are being asked to believe that General Franco ordered his top television executives to offer bribes to all and sundry to make sure that Spain’s entry won that year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and thus deprive Congratulations and Cliff Richard of the title that should have been his. Let us leave aside the fact that this information has been released to promote a Spanish TV documentary, and  <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2008/05/eurovision-song-spain-franco">[...]</a></p>
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