Lordi: The Monsters Who Won Eurovision for Finland

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

On 20 May 2006, in an Athens arena built for pop ballads and key-changes, five people dressed as latex monsters played a hard-rock song called “Hard Rock Hallelujah” and won the Eurovision Song Contest with 292 points — the highest total in the contest’s history to that point. It remains Finland’s only Eurovision victory, and it is still, twenty years on, the single most improbable thing that competition has ever produced.

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Lordi: The Monsters Who Won Eurovision for Finland