John Jago  is a Eurovision fan from the United States of America. He is the second last person to tell us of his Discotheque memory. We are doing this because the group THE ROOP from Lithuania picked a song called Discotheque for the 2021 Eurovision song contest. We allowed people to also pick a non Eurovision song, if such a song brings back special memories.

John writes as follows:

I got to know about the Eurovision song contest from my friend Roy in South Africa and in 1988 we both were in Europe at the same time and watched a recorded version of that year’s Eurovision at the house of a mutual Dutch penfriend. Like Roy, I got hooked on the contest but it has never been easy to hear Eurovision songs in the USA. In 1998 I was one evening at a discotheque in New York city and they played DIVA by DANA INTERNATIONAL. That was surely a highlight to hear a Eurovision song played in the USA. These days it is more common as the base of Eurovision fans in the USA grows.