Frances Ruffelle - Lonely Symphony (We Will be Free) (United Kingdom 1994)

[Sardonicus]

I still believe this to be the best ever UK entry, a class song that deserved so much better than tenth place.

Fetching headgear & I also think she has a look of TORI AMOS.

THOUGHTS?

 

[VoR]

I like it, but it never *quite* reaches what it's obviously grasping for IMO.

Definitely one of our better early to mid 90s efforts though.

 

[Whatevar]

I LOVE IT.

When I was in Year 5 I performed it in assembly with 2 backing dancers.

 

[Ellie]

Sink or Swim was better and should have won

 

[Penelope]

It's SO GOOD and 10th was a robbery.

 

[Jacques]

Love this one, definitely deserved better than 10th given that was one of our worst results at the time. I can get lost in that chorus

 

[lolly]

Sink or Swim was better and should have won

That performance does not sell that song.

 

[Ellie]

That performance does not sell that song.

The thing is that they were clearly pushing Lonely Symphony anyway. It was the last song in the line-up and she changed her top to say UK on it first, with no clothes changes for the others.

I actually would have been OK with Lonely Symphony if they had used the arrangement voted for by the public, but Sink or Swim and Waiting In The Wings were superior songs IMO.

 

[lolly]

I have no recollection now of the other songs, but based on that performance it makes sense. She wasn't trying hard to sell Sink Or Swim at least.

 

[Marina Salty]

Absolute perfection

 

[Suedehead]

A TRIUMPH.

 

[Suedehead]

Also I was today years old when I realised she is Sylvia Youngs daughter and Eliza Doolittle’s mother