Book description
The spangled insanity, the stubborn reinforcement of crude national
stereotypes, the scoreboard shamelessly corrupted by cross-border
friendship and hatred... throughout those long post-ABBA decades, the
Eurovision Song Contest has been drawing 450 million of us to the sofa
for all the wrong reasons. And the most gloriously wrong of all: our
enduring fascination with the unfortunates left to wander the desolate
summit of Mount Fiasco without a point to their names.
From Lisbon to Liverpool, from the Black Sea to the Baltic, Tim
Moore travels the continent to track down the thirteen Eurominstrels
who suffered the entertainment world's prime humiliation.
Tim Moore's books include
French Revolutions
,
Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps
and
I Believe in Yesterday
. He lives in London.
