The Dutch singing duo Mouth & MacNeal was founded in 1971 by Willem Duyn and Maggie MacNeal and achieved success throughout Europe with their "middle-of-the-road sound". In 1972, they achieved international fame with their song "How Do You Do?". Jeanette McKinlay and Peter Petrel covered the song in German under the name "Die Windows" and made the song a top hit in Germany. The follow-up single "Hello-A" spent several weeks at No. 1 in the German single charts in 1972. In the same year they released "You-Kou-La-Le-Lou-Pie", another Top 20 hit. In 1974, they represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest and won 3rd place with "I See a Star", just behind the winning song "Waterloo" by ABBA and "Sí" by Gigliola Cinquetti. Unfortunately, the duo split up shortly afterwards. Mouth formed the duo "Big Mouth & Little Eve" with his new partner Ingrid Kup and died of cardiac arrest in 2004, while Maggie MacNeal went solo from then on.

Spotlight was a music programme for young people broadcast by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) between 1968 and 1978. It was the equivalent of Beat Club or Musikladen in Germany.