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What's Another Year was the Irish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 written by Shay Healy and performed by Johnny Logan. The ballad told the story of a man who has been waiting for the girl of his dreams to fall in love with him, in real life Shay wrote it as he watched his father come to terms with the death of his wife. In the contest, it was performed seventeenth on the night following France and preceding Spain. At the close of voting, it received 143 points and was declared the winner, giving Ireland its second Eurovision win.

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  • What's Another Year was the Irish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 written by Shay Healy and performed by Johnny Logan. The ballad told the story of a man who has been waiting for the girl of his dreams to fall in love with him, in real life Shay wrote it as he watched his father come to terms with the death of his wife. In the contest, it was performed seventeenth on the night following France and preceding Spain. At the close of voting, it received 143 points and was declared the winner, giving Ireland its second Eurovision win.
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  • What's Another Year was the Irish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 written by Shay Healy and performed by Johnny Logan. The ballad told the story of a man who has been waiting for the girl of his dreams to fall in love with him, in real life Shay wrote it as he watched his father come to terms with the death of his wife. In the contest, it was performed seventeenth on the night following France and preceding Spain. At the close of voting, it received 143 points and was declared the winner, giving Ireland its second Eurovision win. The song was a huge hit across the continent, and was named one of the 14 greatest Eurovision songs of all time at the Congratulations gala in 2005. A re-recorded sampling of the chorus can be heard on Belgian rapper Kaye Styles' 2006 summer hit "I Like To Party".
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