Sounds like a Scooch/Cyndi fuck up that Terry presided over AGAIN this year
Their journey to the
Eurovision Song Contest final in
The Hague was not straightforward. They only won the UK heat
A Song For Europe after a countback after the initial regional voting had placed them joint first with
Maggie Moone. In an unrehearsed panic, host
Terry Wogan asked each of the fourteen regional juries to cast a single vote for which of the songs they preferred. Some juries voted against the way they had earlier in the show and with the scoreboard unable to keep up, the entire process descended into farce. Regardless, Prima Donna were declared the winners and went forward to Eurovision.
Author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor notes in his
The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History that Triplett is one of only four singers to have sung for the United Kingdom in the competition twice, alongside
Ronnie Carroll,
Cliff Richard and
Cheryl Baker of
Bucks Fizz.
[1] O'Connor also noted that this was the first UK entry, since 1964, not to make the
UK Singles Chart prior to the Eurovision final, eventually peaking there at #48.
[1][2] The group released one more single in September 1980, "Just Got to be You", but failed to chart.
[3] They disbanded soon after, with member Kate Robbins scoring a UK No.2 hit single a few months later.
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