Austrian birthdays are like buses. You wait ages and ages, and then two come along at once. But when a big Eurovision name from the 1960s has a big birthday, you can’t ignore it. Udo ‘Jürgens’ Jürgen Bockelmann showed that persistence paid off. Either that or ORF couldn’t get anyone else to do the gig, as Udo represented his country three years running. But in Luxembourg’s Villa Louvigny, he did the deed, won, and then we only saw him again holding Sandie Shaw’s hand in the Green Room the following year. Udo is 80 today.
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Udo!