We celebrate all manner of things on birthdays: the winners, the losers, the ‘also-rans’. They all count, and you can guarantee that someone out there will like every single Eurovision song.
So just occasionally, a song might not be quite as well-known, having failed to get through to the Grand Final. For many years, our friends in Croatia had no problems finishing respectably. Then the semi-finals came along, and the world wasn’t quite the same. HRT held its own for a few years before the inevitable happened, and Croatia stayed in the semi-final. Today’s birthday boy, Adolf “Dado” Topić, was part of the act that couldn’t quite cut it. Dado and his Dragonfly pals got points from nine countries, but this wasn’t quite enough. Since 2007, Croatia’s fortunes haven’t been quite the same.
Dado is 73 today.
Sretan rođendan, Dado!
