"won twice for Ireland, with ""What's Another Year"" in 1980 and ""Hold Me Now"" in 1987). Several other winners were well-known artists who won the contest mid-career after they had already established themselves, including Katrina and the Waves, winners in 1997 with ""Love Shine a Light"", Lulu, winner in 1969 with ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"", and Sandie Shaw, winner in 1967 with ""Puppet on a String"". Women have dominated the contest since its inception, either performing solo or as a member of a group on 50 of the 67 winning entries . The 2017 winner was a solo male performance by Salvador"
"just lucky that I'm the one that gets to sing it."" ""Love Shine a Light"" did indeed win Eurovision 1997 easily: with its first 12-point score being awarded by Austria the fourth reporting jury ""Love Shine a Light"" assumed permanent possession of first place on the scoreboard with its final vote tally an unprecedented 227 points besting the second-place finishing Eurovision 1997 entrant, the entrant for Ireland: ""Mysterious Woman"", by 70 points. The final vote tally for ""Love Shine a Light"" at Eurovision 1997 set a record unsurpassed until 2004, when the introduction of the semi-final greatly expanded the number"
"You Want Crying?"" Katrina and the Waves Katrina and the Waves (sometimes written as Katrina and The Waves) were a British-American rock band best known for the 1985 hit ""Walking on Sunshine"". They also won the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""Love Shine a Light"". The band's earliest incarnation was as The Waves, a group that played in and around Cambridge, England, from 1975 to 1977 and featured guitarist Kimberley Rew and drummer Alex Cooper. This incarnation of the Waves never issued any recordings, and broke up when Rew left to join the Soft Boys. A more direct"
"Katrina Leskanich Katrina Elizabeth Leskanich (born April 10, 1960) is an American musician, author and former lead singer of British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves whose song ""Walking on Sunshine"" was an international hit in 1985 and who in 1997 won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with the song ""Love Shine a Light"". Leskanich was born in Topeka, Kansas. She is of Irish, German and Czech ancestry. Her father was a colonel in the United States Air Force, and Katrina and her five siblings (four sisters and one brother) moved frequently as children. After she"
"the ""Great British Song Contest"" semi-final broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 7 February 1997, ""Love Shine a Light"" was one of four songs advanced by televote to the ""Great British Song Contest"" final. The ""Great British Song Contest"" final was a live performance show broadcast by BBC TV on 9 March 1997, at the conclusion of which ""Love Shine a Light"" was announced as the 1997 UK entrant in Eurovision, the song having received 69,834 televotes – 11,138 more than the second-place finisher. On the night of the Eurovision 1997 final – held on 3 May 1997 in the"
"the Waves winning Eurovision 1997 was ""more than a dream - it's probably going to be a reality. I mean we wouldn't come here unless we were intending to win...For Eurovision [success] you need a song with a universal message, lighters in the air, Coca-Cola, heartwarming positive 'all-unite' [message]...[Our] song has a universality about it that unites everyone and I think people are looking for that message in Eurovision...they want something uplifting and positive, and I think once in a while a song comes along that says Eurovision and I think that's what 'Love Shine a Light' says and I'm"
"Point Theatre, Dublin – ""Love Shine a Light"" was performed 24th in a field of 25 songs being preceded by the Croatian entry: ""Probudi me"", with the Icelandic entry: ""Minn hinsti dans"", following as the final competitive number of Eurovision 1997. Leskanich would later state she'd supplied her own outfit for her performance on the Eurovision 1997 finale: ""the boys [ie. the Waves] were getting beautiful suits made by William Hunt and my outfit was an afterthought. They came [in] with five different designers and every single outfit made me look like a clown or a chair cover...I ended up"
"Katrina and the Waves Katrina and the Waves (sometimes written as Katrina and The Waves) were a British-American rock band best known for the 1985 hit ""Walking on Sunshine"". They also won the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""Love Shine a Light"". The band's earliest incarnation was as The Waves, a group that played in and around Cambridge, England, from 1975 to 1977 and featured guitarist Kimberley Rew and drummer Alex Cooper. This incarnation of the Waves never issued any recordings, and broke up when Rew left to join the Soft Boys. A more direct ancestor of Katrina"
"Light"". Reacting to the win, Leskanich said it was the second landslide victory in a week; the song won by a record points margin, and Tony Blair had won the 1997 British general election two days previously. The song won by a then-record margin of 70 points over the Irish runner-up. ""Love Shine a Light"" became Katrina and the Waves' biggest-ever UK hit, peaking at no. 3 in the UK Singles Chart. Despite their return to the public eye in the UK, Katrina and the Waves were not able to follow up ""Love Shine a Light"" with another hit, and"
"first Christmas single, 'I Can't Give You Anything but Love' and her new dog-friendly travel guide, 'Metropoodle: My Cornwall Guide' on Amazon Kindle. Katrina Leskanich Katrina Elizabeth Leskanich (born April 10, 1960) is an American musician, author and former lead singer of British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves whose song ""Walking on Sunshine"" was an international hit in 1985 and who in 1997 won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with the song ""Love Shine a Light"". Leskanich was born in Topeka, Kansas. She is of Irish, German and Czech ancestry. Her father was a colonel"
"227 points; it received points from all participating countries, including five sets of 10 points and a record-breaking ten sets of the maximum 12 points. ""Love Shine a Light"" is still regarded as one of the most successful Eurovision winners, and was the closing song in the medleys that opened the 50th anniversary show ""Congratulations"" in Copenhagen in 2005, and the ESC 2006 semi-final in Athens. With this victory, the United Kingdom has five Eurovision wins and it is to date the country's last win in the Contest. For the first time, the fansite House of Eurovision presented the Barbara"
"a former Eurovision winning song and in the second part the candidate songs that were in contention to represent Austria were performed. In the first part, Yela performed ""Love Shine a Light"" (1997), Falco Luneau performed ""What's Another Year"" (1980), The Bandaloop performed ""Waterloo"" (1974), Natália Kelly performed ""Ne partez pas sans moi"" (1988), and Elija performed ""Euphoria"" (2012). When the jury (50%) and public (50%) votes were combined, Natália Kelly emerged as the winner with the song ""Shine"". Austria was allocated to compete in the first semi-final on 14 May for a place in the final on 18 May."
"won the UK general election held two days earlier, on 1 May 1997. In a 2009 interview Leskanich restated her opinion of ""Love Shine a Light"": ""it was such a feel-good, lighters-in-the-air, cheesy number. It would have been embarrassing for it not to win. It had 'I am a winner' written all over it"", while adding: ""Our song was quickly forgotten because we didn’t have any sensational gimmick like Bucks Fizz"" and describing Eurovision as ""a joke...People who take it seriously are the kind of people who get into Miss Universe. How can you have a contest about what's the"
"the band once again were dropped from their label. Throughout the 1990s, Katrina and the Waves recorded fairly steadily, though most releases were available only in continental Europe and/or Canada, and they issued no charting singles. They also recorded the song ""We Gotta Get Out of This Place"" with Eric Burdon for the TV series ""China Beach"" in 1990. By the late 1990s, however, the band had all but disappeared—until they surprisingly (if briefly) surged back into the limelight by winning the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom on 3 May 1997 with the song ""Love Shine a"
"Light"". Reacting to the win, Leskanich said it was the second landslide victory in a week; the song won by a record points margin, and Tony Blair had won the 1997 British general election two days previously. The song won by a then-record margin of 70 points over the Irish runner-up. The song went to No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart (becoming the band's biggest-ever hit) and Katrina and The Waves performed an unprecedented four weeks running on the BBC One TV show ""Top of the Pops"". Katrina and the Waves broke up in 1999. After the Waves broke"
"for a place in the final, Katrina was on the judging panel and gave her advice to the finalists and then performed her winning Eurovision 1997 song ""Love Shine A Light"". In May 2016, Leskanich performed at Let's Rock the Moor! in Cookham, Berkshire plus Let's Rock Bristol and Let's Rock Leeds. In July 2016, Leskanich toured Australia on the Totally 80s Tour with Martika, Berlin, Limahl, Men Without Hats, Paul Lekakis and Stacey Q. Leskanich was the United Kingdom spokesperson for the jury vote at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, as a tribute to the 20th anniversary of Katrina"
"227 points earned by ""Love Shine a Light"" by Katrina and the Waves afforded the last-named number a landslide Eurovision 1997 victory, ""It's My Time""'s point tally only resulted in a #5 placing at Eurovision 2009.) The UK resurgence at Eurovision would be short-lived as at Eurovision 2003 the UK entry ""Cry Baby"" by Jemini would finish last with zero points. ""Come Back"" debuted at the No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart dated 25 May 2002: its strong showing on the 25 May night of competition for Eurovision 2002 failed to buoy the popularity of the track which dropped"
"times: in 1967 with the song ""Puppet on a String"" performed by Sandie Shaw, in 1969 with the song ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"" performed by Lulu, in 1976 with the song ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" performed by Brotherhood of Man, in 1981 with the song ""Making Your Mind Up"" performed by Bucks Fizz and in 1997 with the song ""Love Shine a Light"" performed by Katrina and the Waves. To this point, the nation is noted for having finished as the runner-up in a record fifteen contests. Up to and including 1998, the UK had only twice finished outside the top"
"1979) was also played and accompanied by choreography, which was then followed by ""Love Shine a Light"" (UK 1997) sung by the co-host, Katrina Leskanich, who came out with flag holders of all the nations who ever participated in Eurovision. Throughout the telecast, a number of highlights segments were presented which showed montages of various Eurovision performances which were either interesting, notable or unorthodox. There were 6 assortments, which were under the categories described by the hosts as 'past winners', 'political, daring, larger than life', 'cute men', 'unforgettable interpretation of dance', 'girlpower' and 'close/narrow second-place finishers'. A number of high-profile"
"representative at the 1998 Contest by Danijela with ""Neka mi ne svane"". Probudi me ""Probudi me"" (English translation: ""Awake Me"") was the Croatian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, performed in Croatian by E.N.I. The song was performed twenty-third on the night (following France's Fanny with ""Sentiments songes"" and preceding the United Kingdom's Katrina And The Waves with ""Love Shine a Light""). At the close of voting, it had received 24 points, placing 17th in a field of 25. The song is an up-tempo number, with the girls singing about the best way to wake them up in the"
"in 1997 with the song ""Love Shine a Light"" performed by Katrina and the Waves. To this point, the nation is noted for having finished as the runner-up in a record fifteen contests. Up to and including 1998, the UK had only twice finished outside the top 10, in 1978 and 1987. Since 1999, the year in which the rule was abandoned that songs must be performed in one of the official languages of the country participating, the UK has had less success, thus far only finishing within the top ten twice: in 2002 with the song ""Come Back"" performed"
"home and studio, where he recorded much of his most recent album, ""Tomorrow"". Throughout this time, he studied the philosophy of indigenous people, became environmentally active and, in 2008, he received a GreenTec Award (formerly the Clean Tech Media Awards) in Berlin. Following the dissolution of the band, Nocito based himself in Cambridge, England and produced the Katrina and The Waves' single ""Love Shine a Light"", winner of the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest and a top 10 hit throughout Europe. He also produced and wrote for Hepburn, Gina G, and Orson, and continued to work extensively with Katrina and The"
"Probudi me ""Probudi me"" (English translation: ""Awake Me"") was the Croatian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, performed in Croatian by E.N.I. The song was performed twenty-third on the night (following France's Fanny with ""Sentiments songes"" and preceding the United Kingdom's Katrina And The Waves with ""Love Shine a Light""). At the close of voting, it had received 24 points, placing 17th in a field of 25. The song is an up-tempo number, with the girls singing about the best way to wake them up in the morning - with love, rather than coffee. It was succeeded as Croatian"
"in sequence by Tandy then continues in a different tune. Shine a Little Love ""Shine a Little Love"" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released as a single in the US and UK in May 1979. The song is the first track on their 1979 album ""Discovery"". This was one of the band's most commercially successful singles, peaking at no. 4 in Canada, no. 6 in the UK Singles Chart and no. 8 in the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song subsequently became one of their biggest worldwide hits as well. The 12"" release was"
"Shine a Light (film) Shine a Light is a 2008 British-American concert film directed by Martin Scorsese documenting The Rolling Stones' 2006 Beacon Theatre performances on their A Bigger Bang Tour. The film also includes archive footage from the band's career and marked the first utilisation by Scorsese of digital cinematography for his films, with it being used for the backstage sequences. The film takes its title from the song of the same name, featured on the band's 1972 album ""Exile on Main St."" A soundtrack album was released in April 2008 on the Universal label. This is also the"
"wearing this green blouse I’d been wearing all week that I’d bought in the Cambridge market for £3 [with] a [dark velvet] jacket that my sister had sent me, which was a Donna Karan second and it only had one shoulder pad. So while I was doing the song, I had to remember to lift my left shoulder slightly to even it out with the other"". She also wore black leather trousers and black high-heeled boots. The Eurovision 1997 finale performance of ""Love Shine a Light"" was simply staged with Leskanich singing center stage fronting background vocalists Beverley Skeete and"
"Shine a Little Love ""Shine a Little Love"" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released as a single in the US and UK in May 1979. The song is the first track on their 1979 album ""Discovery"". This was one of the band's most commercially successful singles, peaking at no. 4 in Canada, no. 6 in the UK Singles Chart and no. 8 in the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song subsequently became one of their biggest worldwide hits as well. The 12"" release was also available in white vinyl. Two different promotional videos were"
"– vocals. In 1990, Airey recorded keyboard parts for several songs on Judas Priest's album ""Painkiller"". However, because Judas Priest wanted the album to have a heavier sound than their previous work, it ultimately featured Airey on only one song, ""A Touch of Evil"". In 1997 he arranged and played on ""Love Shine a Light"" by Katrina and the Waves, conducting the accompanying orchestra at the Eurovision Song Contest. The song won the contest. In 1999 he joined Manchester-based melodic hard rock band Ten where he played keyboards on the album Babylon which was released in 2000. He also toured"
"Triad (band) Triad was a Swedish pop band consisting of the trio Janne Bark, Lasse Lindbom and Niklas Strömstedt. Triad is most famous for their 1987-1988 Swedish number-one single hit ""Tänd ett ljus"" (""""Light a Candle""""), one of the Swedish classic songs for the Advent season, just prior to Christmas. The outro includes Christmas and New Year's greetings in different languages. The single topped the Swedish singles chart on 6 January 1988. The song charted at Svensktoppen for eight weeks during the period 20 December 198714 February 1988. It has been subject to many cover versions. The band was formed"
"stands at $10,268,084 making for a total worldwide gross of $15,773,351. Shine a Light (film) Shine a Light is a 2008 British-American concert film directed by Martin Scorsese documenting The Rolling Stones' 2006 Beacon Theatre performances on their A Bigger Bang Tour. The film also includes archive footage from the band's career and marked the first utilisation by Scorsese of digital cinematography for his films, with it being used for the backstage sequences. The film takes its title from the song of the same name, featured on the band's 1972 album ""Exile on Main St."" A soundtrack album was released"
"entries in the contest to date. Since that time, the United Kingdom has won the contest a total of five times: in 1967 with ""Puppet on a String"" by Sandie Shaw; one of four winners of the 1969 contest with ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"" by Lulu; in 1976 with the Brotherhood of Man song ""Save Your Kisses for Me""; in 1981 with ""Making Your Mind Up"" by Bucks Fizz; and most recently in 1997 with ""Love Shine a Light"" by Katrina and the Waves"". The United Kingdom also holds the record for the most second-place finishes, a total of 15. Since the"
"Kisses for Me"" performed by Brotherhood of Man, in 1981 with the song ""Making Your Mind Up"" performed by Bucks Fizz, and in 1997 with the song ""Love Shine a Light"" performed by Katrina and the Waves. To this point, the nation is noted for having finished as the runner-up in a record fifteen contests. Up to and including 1998, the UK had only twice finished outside the top 10, in 1978 and 1987. Since 1999, the year in which the rule was abandoned that songs must be performed in one of the official languages of the country participating, the"
"Shine, Jesus, Shine ""Shine, Jesus, Shine"" (also known by its first line, ""Lord, the Light of Your Love"") is a Christian praise song written in 1987 by Graham Kendrick. The song was voted tenth in a 2005 survey of the United Kingdom's favourite hymns by the BBC's ""Songs of Praise"" programme. However, Damian Thompson, editor-in-chief of the ""Catholic Herald"", called ""Shine, Jesus, Shine"" ""the most loathed of all happy-clappy hymns"". The song was sung by the children of Department of Social Welfare and Development staff and students from the Mary Immaculate Parish Special School at Villamor Air Base for the"