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The Happy Failure

A Norwegian singer was singing a wonderfully boring song in the European Song Show in 1978. Many singers from different countries were there. At the end of the show people from each country had to decide which song was the best. They also decided which song was the worst. Unusually they all agreed: ‘Norway gets zero out of ten/

Next morning the newspaper stories were naturally all about the Norwegian singer, Mr Teigan, while there were only a few words about the winning singer, Izhar Cohen.

After the show newspaper photographers crowded round Mr Teigan, welcoming him like a popstar.

‘This is my greatest success,’ he said. ‘I have done something that nobody has done before me. I’m the first Norwegian to get zero. After the show they asked me to sing parts of the song sixty times for the photographers.

And I’m going to be on television and singing all over Europe. People have never been so interested in me before.’