The capital of the United Kingdom, London, provided the settings for the fifth Eurovision Song Contest.

This was despite the fact that the Netherlands actually won the Eurovision Song Contest in Cannes the year before with Een Beetje, performed by Teddy Scholten. However, the Dutch broadcaster didn't want to host the contest again.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1961 returned to the beautiful city of Cannes for the second time in its short life.

The number of participants is rising, and the magnitude of the competition increases. Just like in 1959, the Palais des Festivals was the venue of this year's contest. The presenter of the show was Jacqueline Joubert, who already did this task in 1959. The stage used for the show was much bigger than in previous years, and it was magnificently decorated with flowers. For the first time, the contest took place on a Saturday night which would be its regular home for the decades to come.

After the victory in Cannes in 1961, Luxembourg was the host of the seventh Eurovision Song Contest.

The stage was decorated with twinkling stars, but unfortunately they could not be seen for parts of the evening because there were some problems with the lights in the big auditorium of the Villa Louvigny.

The honour of hosting this year's song contest was handed over by the French to the United Kingdom.

The main reason was that France did not want to host the song contest so soon after hosting it twice in Cannes in 1959 and 1961. Host Broadcaster BBC tried a different approach for the presentation of the Eurovision Song Contest. All songs were performed in one studio, but the audience was located in another. Each song had its own unique staging, and the change of set was done very quickly. Because of that, rumours arose that the performances were pre-recorded which later turned out to be untrue.

The 1964 Eurovision Song Contest took place in the famous Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.

This year, the event was highly political and there were demands that the right-wing dictatorships in Spain and Portugal should be excluded from the contest. There was even some trouble during the contest as just before the Belgian entry, a man entered the stage holding a banner saying "Boycott Franco and Salazar". He was quickly removed from the stage though.

Italy and its national broadcaster RAI hosted this year's contest for the first time.

The number of participants was the highest ever as 18 countries took part. After a year of absence, Sweden returned to the competition and Ireland debuted.

Swedish participant Ingvar Wixell performed his song - originally called Annorstädes Vals - in English instead of Swedish while all the other participants sang in their native languages. This incident led to a rule demanding all participants should perform their songs in their respective national languages.

The capital city of Luxembourg was the home of the 11th Eurovision Song Contest.

The rules for the contest were heavily discussed and many changes were suggested but they remained almost unchanged from the previous year apart from the fact that the national juries could include music experts again.

During the dress rehearsal, the Italian participant Domenico Modugno was not satisfied with the orchestra and left the stage in anger. It was uncertain if he was going to perform during the live show, but he sang Dio Come Ti Amo after all. The song later became a huge success in South America for Gigliola Cinquetti, the winner of 1964.

The contest had a very glamorous setting: the stage included three revolving mirrors and a staircase entrance in the middle.

The juries had undergone a change as well, as half of the jurors had to be less than 30 years old.

During the voting the presenter of the show, Erika Vaal, got confused - she managed to declare the United Kingdom winner of the song contest before the last jury's votes were cast. However, the confusion about the voting would not make any difference: the United Kingdom clearly won for the first time after the country had finished second five times in nine years.

The 13th Eurovision Song Contest which took place in the Royal Albert Hall was the first contest to be broadcast in colour.

France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom broadcast the 1968 contest in colour despite the fact that very few TV-viewers at home owned a colour TV set. However, colour was here to stay and all song contests since then have been broadcast primarily in colour.

Madrid hosted the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest after Massiel won the trophy in London the year before.

For the first time in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, the outcome of the voting resulted in a tie for the first place. Four countries gained 18 points each: France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Since there was no solution for this situation, all four countries were declared winners. Luckily, there were four medals available to the four winning singers - the four medals were intended for the winning singer and three winning songwriters.