Clodagh Rodgers, pop star of Eurovision 71, has gone extinct

Clodagh Rodgers, a luminous figure of the British pop and representative of the United Kingdom at Eurovision 1971, died on 18 April 2025 at the age of 78, at her home in Cobham, Surrey. The Northern Irish singer had been fighting for three years against a disease whose nature she had never publicly revealed. Her death marked the end of an exemplary, discreet but influential career, conducted with grace and constancy for several decades. A voice …