On 21 December 2014, Jürgens died of acute heart failure in Münsterlingen, Switzerland, at the age of 80. With Austria's success at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, the first since Jürgens' success in 1966, Jürgens expressed his interest in performing in the interval of the next contest. With his death, the organisers of the 2015 contest in Vienna paid tribute to him with a tribute day in the "Eurovision Village" on 20 May and at the beginning of the Austrian national final broadcast live on ORF 1. At the contest's final, violinst Lidia Baich performed an excerpt of his winning song live on stage during the opening act.