Eurovision 2025, the Suicide of the West

When Lys Assia, in the middle of the song "Refrain", turned and told director Fernando Paggi to start again because he had forgotten the lyrics, he did not imagine that he was committing the first blooper of a story that next year will be 70 years old. Lys was the first Eurovision winner, in May 1956. It was not many who saw her on television for the simple reason that not many had television in their home. The interesting thing is that only 10 …