[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [canadianclassicrock] From the people who brought you Abba and Celine Dioff ...

Hey Renz,

you were so certain they wouldn't win! How I wish I would have put
some money down at those 11 to 1 odds...

I guess you don't know everything there is to know about the music
business after all... oh, sure, everybody loves Kelly Clarkson and
Mariah Carey, but from now on, when it comes to the Majesty of Rock,
and the Pageantry of Roll, Make Mine Lordi!

Prepare for the Arockalypse!

The day of rockoning is at hand!

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From: Whisky Howl <snerkli@yahoo.ca>
Date: May 21, 2006 12:46 AM
Subject: [canadianclassicrock] From the people who brought you Abba
and Celine Dioff ...
To: canadianclassicrock@yahoogroups.com

Finland's Monster Rockers Lordi Sweep to Victory in Eurovision

May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Lordi, a Finnish heavy-metal band that performs
in monster masks, won the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, the
first time Finland has won the contest in 40 years of trying.

``Hard Rock Hallelujah'' received 292 points from a telephone vote in
38 countries, beating Russian heart-throb Dima Bilan, who received 248
points. Bosnia-Herzegovina's Hari Mata Hari, a star in the former
Yugoslavia before the country descended into civil war in the early
1990s, was third with 229 points.

Lordi's victory will bring the Eurovision Song Contest to Finland for
the first time. Best known for Nokia phones, Finland had never placed
higher than sixth in the Eurovision Song Contest, the world's
most-watched song contest.

``How weird is this,'' the singer known as ``Mr. Lordi'' said in a
televised news conference after the event. ``We're a rock band and we
just won a pop song contest.''

First held in 1956, the Eurovision contest is best known for launching
the careers of performers such as Abba and Celine Dion. Last year's
final in the Ukraine was watched by more than 100 million viewers in
40 countries, three times the number of viewers who watched the final
of ``American Idol,'' the biggest U.S. television hit.

Lordi, rated 11/1 to win the final by bookmakers William Hill on
Friday, beat the favorites, Sweden's Carola and Greece's Anna Vissi,
the host country's entrant. Malta's Fabrizio Faniello avoided the
dreaded ``null'' points when it received one point from Albania,
placing last.

Twenty-four countries competed in the final, including first-timer
Armenia, which finished eighth with 129 points.

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