Forty years after Eurovision came to a Yorkshire spa town, BBC News speaks to those who were there.
The glitz and glamour of Eurovision came to the newly-built Harrogate International Centre on 24 April 1982
To mark the 40th anniversary of the contest coming to Yorkshire, the BBC has spoken to three people who were there on that very special night.Writer and broadcaster John Kennedy O'Connor, who has written an official history of the Eurovision Song Contest, was one of those lucky enough to be at the 1982 show.
In fact, a third of the seats had to be removed from the venue to allow room for the stage and the commentary boxes.There was also some TV sleight-of-hand. Ms Leeming confessed to nerves ahead of the contest and remembered writing in her diary that she "would give a kingdom for a train ticket home".
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