10 years without Juan Carlos Calderón, the hidden genius of Spanish pop who conquered the worldġ0 years without Juan Carlos Calderón, the hidden genius of Spanish pop who conquered the world

Three Mocedades tour Spain between accusations and crossed demands And in the Spain in which the Franco regime gave its last gasps, it seemed that the Festival had been caught quietly, with notable achievements to offer a better national image abroad. In the United Kingdom alone, more than 1973 million admissions were recorded in 21.Īlthough the thing was about peace and European twinning, the participating countries were eager to win, as if somehow the musical competition replaced war as the continuation of politics by other means, to paraphrase Clausewitz. To the unique showcase that represented for any artist to participate in the contest for its enormous international projection was added that television had already penetrated almost all the homes of the Old Continent, so the contest of the song created 18 years before to twin nations furrowed by the scars of World War II reached stratospheric audiences.

In 1973 Eurovision was in its golden age. And the Uranga, Amaya, Izaskun and Roberto, along with Javier Garay, Carlos Zubiaga and José Ipiña -the six historical- continue on the podium for having interpreted the best song that our country has sent to the contest in its history, nothing less than Eres tú, that musical monument of Juan Carlos Calderón embedded in the sentimental memory of no one knows how many generations. The second place reached by the Bilbao sextet knew then and continues to taste today to authentic victory. This Friday, April 7, marks the 50th anniversary of Mocedades' participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. CARLOS GARCÍA POZO (GRAPHIC Thursday,6April2023-00:06

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