E depois do adeus
It represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, held in Brighton, having previously won that year's Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa.The song's airing on 24 April 1974 at 10:55 p.m. on Emissores Associados de Lisboa Radio Station was one of the two secret signals which alerted the rebel captains and soldiers to begin the Carnation Revolution.[1] On 7 March 1974, "E depois do adeus" performed by de Carvalho competed in the 11th edition of the Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa.De Carvalho performed "E depois do adeus" sixteenth on the night, following Switzerland's "Mein Ruf nach dir" by Piera Martell and preceding Italy's "Sì" by Gigliola Cinquetti.Despite the modest placing in Eurovision, the song achieved considerable fame as one of the two signals to launch the Carnation Revolution in Portugal against the Estado Novo regime under Américo Tomás and Marcello Caetano – the other being the folk song "Grândola, Vila Morena" by Zeca Afonso, which was the signal for the coup leaders to announce that they had taken control of strategic parts of the country.