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The track was the biggest selling single of 1976 in the UK and the sixth biggest selling for the 1970s in Britain, with sales well in excess of 1 million copies. Globally, the track attained sales of over 6 million, making it the biggest selling winning single in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. [5]
The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was the 21st edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in The Hague , Netherlands , following the country's victory at the 1975 contest with the song " Ding-a-dong " by Teach-In .
Brotherhood of Man had the biggest-selling single of 1976, with "Save Your Kisses for Me", the winning song of that year's Eurovision Song Contest, which spent six weeks at number-one. Elton John had two top 10 singles this year, including his duet with Kiki Dee , " Don't Go Breaking My Heart ", which topped the charts for six weeks and became ...
In early 1976, Hiller was keen for Brotherhood of Man to make an impact in the UK and decided to put "Save Your Kisses for Me" forward to the A Song for Europe competition. This year saw a change to the contest in that, since 1964, one specific artist had performed all the songs (e.g. Cliff Richard , Olivia Newton-John , Lulu , etc.), but 1976 ...
After five second-place finishes, the UK won its first Eurovision song contest in 1967, 10 years after the competition began, with bare-foot Sandie Shaw’s “Puppet On A String” and after that ...
Graham Norton and Petra Mede, the presenters of Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits. In 2015, London hosted Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits, an event to commemorate the 60th anniversary, which was recorded for television on 31 March 2015 and was shown in 26 countries, starting with the UK and Ireland on 3 April 2015. [57]
Eleven Eurovision winners (alongside three non-winners) were featured at the special concert Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, in which ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song of the contest's first fifty years. [85] Ireland and Sweden have won seven times, more than any other country. Ireland also won ...
"Save Your Kisses for Me" is a song recorded by British group Brotherhood of Man, written by Tony Hiller with band members Lee Sheriden and Martin Lee. It represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 held in The Hague, winning the contest.