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While reporting on the Eurovision Song Contest, the New Yorker 's Anthony Lane asked a man named Seppo, from the seven-hundred-strong Eurovision Fan Club of Norway, what he loved about Eurovision. 'Brotherhood of man,' he said - a slightly ambiguous answer, because that was the name of a British group that entered, and won, the contest in 1976. And the concept has a longer history in European music than that:
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