- Mono I Agapi
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"Mono I Agapi/Love Is A Lonely Weekend" 
Single by Anna Vishy from the album Anna Vissi (Re-release) B-side "I'm Gonna be a Fool for You" Released May 1982
(see release history)Format CD single, promo single, radio single Recorded 1982 Genre Pop Length 2:45 Label Minos EMI Writer(s) Anna Vissi Producer Anna Vissi Anna Vishy singles chronology "Autostop"
(2007)"Love Is A Lonely Weekend"
(2009)"Eimai Poli Kala"
(1995)
"Mono I Agapi"Eurovision Song Contest 1982 entry Country Cyprus Artist(s) Anna Vishy Language Greek Composer(s) Anna Vissi Lyricist(s) Anna Vissi Conductor Martyn Ford Finals performance Final result 5th Final points 85 Appearance chronology ◄ Monika (1981) I Agapi Akoma Zi (1983) ► "Mono I Agapi" (Greek script: Μόνο η αγάπη, English translation: "Only love") was the Cypriot entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982, performed in Greek by Anna Vissi. This was Vissi's second Eurovision entry; in 1980 she had represented Greece in The Hague with the song "Autostop", (sung together with the group Epikouri which also featured her sister Lia Vissi), and had then finished 13th.
"Mono I Agapi" was performed eighth on the night, following Switzerland's Arlette Zola with "Amour on t'aime" and preceding Sweden's Chips with "Dag efter dag". At the close of voting, it had received 85 points, placing 5th in a field of 18, Cyprus' best showing in the Contest to date; the country has finished 5th on three separate occasions, in 1982, again in 1997 with Hara and Andreas Constantinou's "Mana Mou" and most recently in 2004 with Lisa Andreas' "Stronger Every Minute".
"Mono I Agapi" is a ballad, with Vissi singing that only love survives the various problems of life. The English language version of the song was entitled "Love is a Lonely Weekend".
The song was translated to Hebrew and sung by Israeli singer Ilana Avital as "Lama Atzuv Li" ("Why am I sad").
Videoclip
Considered one of the best video clips CyBC ever sent to Eurovision, Anna Vissi is singing in various places across Cyprus. At a garden probably in Limassol, at Troodos "dressed" completely in white, at a medieval bridge and most notably at the Petra Tou Romiou area in Paphos where the video clip begins and ends.
It was succeeded as Cypriot representative in the 1983 Contest by Stavros & Dina with "I Agapi Akoma Zi". Anna Vissi returned to the Contest for a third time in 2006, then representing Greece with "Everything".
Anna Vissi Studio albums As Kanoume Apopse Mian Arhi (1977) · Kitrino Galazio (1979) · Nai (1980) · Anna Vissi (1981) · Eimai To Simera Kai Eisai To Chthes (1982) · Na 'Hes Kardia (1984) · Kati Simveni (1985) · I Epomeni Kinisi (1986) · Tora (1988) · Empnefsi! (1988) · Fotia (1989) · Eimai (1990) · Emeis (1992) · Lambo (1992) · Re! (1994) · O! Kypros (1995) · Klima Tropiko (1996) · Travma (1997) · Antidoto (1998) · Everything I Am (2000) · Kravgi (2000) · X (2002) · Paraksenes Eikones (2003) · Nylon (2005) · Apagorevmeno (2008) · Agapi Einai Esi (2010)Live albums Live! (1993) · Live (2004)CD singles "Autostop" (1980) · Mono I Agapi" (1982) · "Eimai Poli Kala" (1995) · "Min Ksehnas" (1995) · "Amin" (1995) · "Forgive Me This" (1997) · "Agapi Ipervoliki" (2000) · "Everything I Am" (2000) · "Still in Love with You" (2001) · "Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (2001) · "Call Me" (2005) · "Autostop/Love Is a Lonely Weekend" (2006) · "Everything" (2006) · "Agapi Einai Esi" (2010)EPs The Remixes: Oso Eho Foni & Aftos Pou Perimeno (1997) • The Remixes (2003) • Remixes 2004 (2004)Soundtracks To Tzitziki Kai I Parea Tou (1980) · Daimones (1991) · Ode to the Gods (1993) · Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou (2002)DVDs The Video Collection (2001) · Live (2005) · Nylon - The Dual Disk (2005) · Eurovision Song Contest Athens 2006Compilations Ta Kalitera Mou Tragoudia (1980) · Oles Oi Epityhies Tis Anna Vissi (1982) · Ta Prota Mou Tragoudia (1993) · Anna Vissi (1999) · Back to Time (Complete EMI Years) (2007) · The Essential Anna Vissi (2007)Related articles Discography · Videography · Awards and nominations · Concert tours · Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest · Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 · Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006Categories:- Anna Vissi songs
- Eurovision songs of Cyprus
- Eurovision songs of 1982
- 1982 songs
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