1981 UK: Bucks Fizz Making your mind up (1st place at Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin)
Performed by: Bucks Fizz Music by: John Danter Lyrics by: Andy Hill Conductor: John Coleman Language: English Placing: 1st (136 points) In late year 1980, songwriter Andy Hill teamed up with John Danter and composed Making Your Mind Up with an eye to entering it into the A Song for Europe finals the following year. Working with his then girlfriend, Nichola Martin, a former singer, they set about recording a demo of the song to enter. This featured the vocals of Hill, Martin and Mike Nolan, a singer Martin had worked with before. Martin then set about gathering a lineup to enter the song with, based around her and Nolan. With the song already entered under the name Bucks Fizz, Martin and future manager, Jill Shirley recruited Cheryl Baker, Bobby G and Jay Aston to the lineup, with Martin herself dropping out. The song was published by Paper Music, which was a yearold publishing company owned by Billy Lawrie himself a songwriter and brother of singer Lulu. Choreographer C br, br,
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