UK Eurovision entries over the years and where they finished on the leaderboard
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Eurovision is back again for 2021 after a year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, exhibiting some of Europe s most eccentric pop talent.
This year, the UK s hopes ride on the shoulders of 2014 Brit Award-winner James Newman, with earnest single Embers .
The first semi-final took place on May 18, and the preview of Newman’s performance at the second Semi-Final on May 20 looked promising. You can see how the London singer-songwriter fares by tuning in to the Grand Final on Saturday, May 22, which will be broadcast live on BBC One from Rotterdam from 8pm.
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Cheryl was a member of 1981 Eurovision Song Contest winners Bucks Fizz (Image: Getty Images)
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1970: Mary Hopkin, ‘Knock, Knock, Who’s There?’
Welsh folk singer Hopkin gave the UK another second place at Eurovision, after a string of hit singles including Goodbye (written and produced by Paul McCartney).
After she married top producer Tony Visconti in 1971, she withdrew from the limelight, but still sang on several albums he produced, including David Bowie’s Low. After a late-Seventies comeback, she joined a group called Oasis (not the Gallaghers’ band), and sang on Vangelis’s soundtrack for Blade Runner. She is still recording, and released her last studio album in 2013.
In 2018, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her break out single Those Were the Days, produced by Paul McCartney, Hopkin released a new acoustic version of the track.
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