Luxembourg was represented at the

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with the song "", written by

Maggie Parke Luxembourg was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 with the song "", written by Maggie Parke, Gast Waltzing, Yves Lacomblez, and Bernard Loncheval, and performed by the band Park Café. The Luxembourgish participating broadcaster, ...

, Gast Waltzing, Yves Lacomblez, and Bernard Loncheval, and performed by the band Park Café. The Luxembourgish participating broadcaster, the (CLT), selected its entry through a national final, after having previously selected the performer internally. CLT organised a three-song national final in order to select Park Café's song and "Monsieur" emerged as the winning song following a public televote held via television and radio on 5 and 6 March 1989. Luxembourg competed in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 6 May 1989. Performing during the show in position 11, Luxembourg placed twentieth out of the 22 participating countries, scoring 8 points.

Background

Prior to the 1989 contest, the (CLT) had participated in the

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representing Luxembourg thirty-three times since debuting in its first edition of . It had won the contest on five occasions: in with "" performed by

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, in with "" performed by

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, in with "" performed by

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, in with "" performed by

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, and finally in with "" performed by

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. As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, CLT organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The Luxembourgish entries since have been selected internally by CLT. For the 1989 contest, the broadcaster opted to internally select the artist and organise a national final to select the song.

Before Eurovision

Artist selection

On 10 February 1989, CLT announced that it had internally selected the band Park Café to represent Luxembourg in Lausanne. It was later announced that a national final would be held to select the song Park Café would perform.

National final

12 songs were submitted by Park Café to CLT which selected three of them for the national final. Video recordings of Park Café performing the three competing songs were presented during the 5 March 1989 edition of the television programme , broadcast on at 13:00 (

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) and hosted by Jean Octave and Manette Dupong, with the public able to vote for their favourite song through televoting during the show. The three songs were also presented via radio on on 6 March 1989 where an additional round of televoting was held. The combination of votes received during both voting rounds resulted in the selection of "" as the winning song.

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 took place on 6 May 1989 at Hall 7 of the

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, Switzerland. On 23 November 1988, an allocation draw was held which determined the running order and Luxembourg was set to perform in position 11, following the entry from and before the entry from . In Luxembourg, the contest was broadcast on . The Luxembourgish conductor at the contest was Benoît Kaufman and Luxembourg finished in 20th place, scoring 8 points. The Luxembourgish jury awarded its 12 points to the .

Voting

References

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