Eurovision Portugal 1974 - Paulo de Carvalho - E Depois do Adeus

"E Depois do Adeus" ("And after the farewell") was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, performed in Portuguese by Paulo de Carvalho.

The song is a ballad, with Paulo de Carvalho taking the role of a man who is faced with the end of a relationship. He tells his lover how he feels, likening her to "a flower that I picked", implying that the relationship was of a comparatively short duration. He also comments on the nature of love itself, singing that it is "winning and losing".

The song was performed sixteenth on the night, following Switzerland's Piera Martell with "Mein Ruf nach dir" and preceding Italy's Gigliola Cinquetti with "Sì". At the close of voting, it had received 3 points, placing 14th (tied for last with Switzerland, Norway and Germany) in a field of 17.

Despite the modest showing in Brighton at the Contest itself, the song achieved considerable fame as one of the two signals to launch the Carnation Revolution in Portugal against the Estado Novo regime of Marcelo Caetano - the other being the folk song "Grândola Vila Morena" by Zeca Afonso, which was the signal for the coup leaders to announce that they had taken control of strategic parts of the country.

Histories of the Contest tend to take a facetious view of this fact. In his Official History of The Eurovision Song Contest, author John Kennedy O'Connor, for example, describes it as "the only Eurovision entry to have actually started a revolution", while Des Mangan suggests that other Portuguese entries (he mentions 1998's "Se eu te pudesse abraçar") would not be likely to inspire coups.

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• Eurovision
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• Paulo de Carvalho
• E Depois do Adeus
• ESC
• Eurovision Portugal
• Eurovision 1974

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@heucatia Pois é, esta cantata deu-nos um azar do caraças!

[heucatia]

É a musiquinha que vou cantar quando me voltar a pôr a andar daqui para fora daqui a um mês, e para aquilo que eu espero ser para sempre! lol Adeus Tugalândia... não vou ter saudades, a vida é demasiado curta e o mundo é demasiado grande... boa sorte para os que ficam, e um conselho, se a vossa sorte não estiver aqui, lembrem-se: " a vida é demasiado curta e o mundo é demasiado grande"... ;)