The contest featured special guests that communicated with the hosts via satellite : Lys Assia , winner of the 1956 Contest greeted the hosts and spectators from Nicosia , Elton John spoke to the presenters live from the Life Ball in Vienna and one astronaut and one cosmonaut — Ed Lu and Yuri Malenchenko — gave their greetings from the International Space Station . The interval act for the contest was a short film directed by Anna Viduleja that featured a sequence of performances by Latvian post-folklore group Iļģi , Renārs Kaupers ' band Brainstorm , Marie N and piano player Raimonds Pauls
1956 Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1956
Eurovision Song Contest 2003