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The United Kingdom won the contest this year with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me" by Brotherhood of Man. [1] The song went on to become the biggest selling winning single in the history of the contest and won with 80.39% of the possible maximum score and an average of 9.65 of 12; a record under the voting system introduced in 1975. [2]
71 songs written by 147 songwriters have won the Eurovision Song Contest, an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union.The contest, which has been broadcast every year since its debut in 1956 (with the exception of 2020), is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world.
With a change in line-up, 'Co-Co' would return in the A Song for Europe 1978 contest, which they would win and go on to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978. The band featured Cheryl Baker who ultimately won Eurovision for the United Kingdom in 1981 with Bucks Fizz. 'Sunshine' also returned two years later, also with a different ...
They won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with "Save Your Kisses for Me". Created in 1969 by songwriter and record producer Tony Hiller, Brotherhood of Man was initially an umbrella title for a frequently-changing line-up of session singers. Early on, they scored a worldwide hit with the song "United We Stand".
On 25 February 1976, "Save Your Kisses for Me" competed in A Song for Europe 1976, the national final organized by the BBC to select its song and performer for the 21st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The song won the competition, beating second-placed "Wake Up" by Co-Co by just two points, and becoming the British entry, and ...
Former X Factor contestant Lucie Jones won the show and earned the right to represent the UK at the 2017 contest in Kyiv, with the song "Never Give Up on You", becoming the 60th UK Eurovision entry. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The song was praised for its impressive staging, and finished 15th in the final with a combined score of 111 points, finishing 10th ...
France had rarely taken the Eurovision route of uptempo, bouncy and lyrically unchallenging pop songs, but had done so with "Un, deux, trois". Prior to the contest most observers noted that the 1976 contest was the easiest for many years to predict, with " Un, deux, trois " and the United Kingdom 's " Save Your Kisses for Me " as the only ...
April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me. April 5. James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai.