January 18, 20205 yr Author 23 points Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything Petula Clark - Downtown Fat Les - Vindaloo INXS - Need You Tonight Los Del Rio - Macarena Meduza featuring Goodboys - Piece Of Your Heart Steps - One For Sorrow Rod Stewart - The Killing Of Georgie (Part I and II) The Who - My Generation w-rv2BQa2OU Need You Tonight only got to no.58 in 1987 but reached no.2 the following year after INXS had become better known. Four songs by Steps received votes in the first round but none of them have gone through to the semi-finals. The Killing Of Georgie occupied both sides of Rod Stewart's single and is probably his finest song. An eclectic list also includes well known songs by The Who and Petula Clark.
January 18, 20205 yr Funny to see those football songs narrowly missing the cut - I don't recall 3 Lions getting many points last year!
January 18, 20205 yr Author 24 points The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love East 17 featuring Gabrielle - If You Ever Infernal - From Paris To Berlin John Legend - All Of Me Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto Regard - Ride It S Club 7 - Reach 50kP4S0peAs Two songs by S Club 7 received votes in the first round and they have also been eliminated. John Legend's huge worldwide hit goes out as well.
January 18, 20205 yr Author A further six singles have a score of 24 points. Four of them received votes from 2 people and the other two had 3 votes. These songs all go through to the semi-finals on a most votes tie-break. The eight songs above all received 24 points from one person so they all leave the contest. There will be 201 no.2 singles in the semi-finals so one semi will have 51 songs in it. 'Before You Go' by Lewis Capaldi will automatically go into that one in case it has to be withdrawn if it reaches no.1.
January 18, 20205 yr I nearly voted for Somebody To Love but went for another Queen song instead. I'm not a fan of Rod Stewart at all but The Killing Of Goergie is a great song so it got points from me. A song about a homophobic attack (although the word homophobic was not used at the time) was pretty revolutionary when it came out, particularly for a singer of his standing.
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