'The song', the Eurovision that won Spain when everything went wrong

The summary history of the Spanish victory at the Eurovision festival of 1968 is widely known: Serrat refused to sing 'La la la' in Spanish', Massiel replaced him and we won. But if one dives into the intrahistory of everything that happened around, he realizes that that was a miracle. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Everything, except the most important thing.Narrated from the point of view of a Spanish Radio Television worker who t…

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1968 Eurovision Festival. Royal Albert Hall of London. Massiel sings La, la, la and gets for Spain, rooted in her Courréges dress, the triumph in a quote that had become a priority goal for Francoism in its attempt to give a modern image and openness still in full dictatorship.