When Luxembourg hosted the 1973 ESC, they won on home ground and several people involved rated their chances quite highly of repeating the trick when hosting eleven years later.
Their song was seen as a fresh and modern piece of very catchy pop, more bang up to date than the very classical ballad they had won with the year before.
Unfortunately, they were drawn at the dreaded #2 spot, right after the sensation of the year - the synchronised singing and dancing boys from Sweden - and what was expected to be a candidate for victory had to content itself with a lacklustre tenth place.
In all fairness, maybe the draw wasn't the only thing pulling this one down. Model-turned-singer Sophie Carle apparently sang flawlessly in all rehearsals but lost her plot completely on the day of the final, not exactly standing out as the Maria Callas of Luxembourg.
Sophie Carle - 100 % d'amour (Luxembourg 1984)
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