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| vote = Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs | entries = 25 | debut = | return = | withdraw = | null = | interval = Jupiter, The Bringer of Joviality | opening = Birmingham, Old and New | Green = Y | Green SA = | Purple = | Red = | Yellow = Y }} The Eurovision Song Contest 1998 was the 43rd annual Eurovision Song Contest. The contest took place in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, following Katrina and the Waves's win in the 1997 contest in Dublin with "Love Shine A Light". It was the UK's fifth win, and the eighth time that the UK hosted the contest, the last being in Harrogate in 1982. The UK has not won or hosted the contest since. The contest took place in the National Indoor Arena on 9 May 1998, and the arena played host to the G8 summit one week later, so much so that presenter and commentator Terry Wogan's hotel room was later occupied by Bill Clinton.〔''The Eurovision Song Contest 1998'', BBC, 9 May 1998〕 Twenty-five countries participated in the contest, with making their official début, even though they had submitted an entry in the non-televised 1996 pre-qualifying round, which failed to qualify into the televised final of that contest. , , and returned to the contest after a . Despite having also taken part in the non-televised 1996 pre-qualifying round, in which they failed to qualify, and returned officially after their last participations in and respectively. , , , , , and all withdrew from the contest due to the relegation rule. Italy did not return until 2011. There was much controversy in the lead-up to the contest, mostly surrounding the entries from , , and : the Greek composer, Yiannis Valvis, was unhappy with the way that the director, Geoff Posner, intended to film his song;〔''Naked Eurovision'', BBC, 31 December 1998〕 many Orthodox Jews objected to the selection of transsexual Dana International for Israel; Turkey struggled during rehearsals to get their song within the three-minute time limit.〔 Dana International eventually went on to win the contest, scoring 172 points,〔After the broadcast it was announced that Spanish broadcaster wrongly tallied the votes and Germany should have got the top mark - 12 points - instead of being snubbed, as it happened. The mistake was corrected and so Germany was placed 7th over Norway. Israel and Norway both received 2 points less than originally and Croatia, Malta, Portugal, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia and Turkey all received one point less than indicated during the broadcast. Originally Estonia, Cyprus and Portugal tied for 11th place with 37 points but because Portugal and Estonia received one point less than indicated during the broadcast, Cyprus was placed 11th over Estonia and Portugal.〕 with the song "Diva", written by Svika Pick and Yoav Ginai. The singer had attracted much media attention both in Israel and Europe since she had undergone gender reassignment in 1993, being the first openly transgender performer to enter the competition.〔 == Location == The United Kingdom, along with their national broadcaster the BBC, hosted the contest at the National Indoor Arena in the city of Birmingham. It was the first time since the that the Eurovision Song Contest was staged in the United Kingdom, and the last to date. This was a record-breaking eighth time that the United Kingdom staged the contest, having done so for the , , , , , , and contests. The National Indoor Arena had been used for several major events in the past, including counting no less than eight constituencies in the hall for the 1992 general election.〔''Election 92'', BBC, 9 April 1992〕 The week after the Eurovision Song Contest, the arena was to host the G8 summit in Birmingham, with Terry Wogan vacating his hotel room to make way for Bill Clinton.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eurovision Song Contest 1998」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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