Finnish Metal Band Lordi Shock Eurovision Song Contest
Sunday, 21 May 2006
Written by Stereoboard.com
Eurovision was rocked last night by the surprise win of Finnish metal monsters Lordi.
The scary-rock band scooped the big prize at the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, which was held last night in the Greek capital of Athens.
The finnish group earned the country their first Eurovision success for the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah'', which notched up an astonishing 292 points.
"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.''
The band had caused a huge media frenzy before the event when three Greek organisations were trying to get the band thrown out of the event for promoting Satanism.
The UK's official entrant, rapper Daz Sampson, had a miserable night finishing sixth last with just 25 points. The song 'Teenage Life', which we can only describe as both strange and shit, didn't go down well with the estimated 100 million worldwide TV audience.
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