He's going through his Chart archives and came across this from 1995 which I'm sure he won't mind us running here.

No. 36: (52) Love City Groove - Love City Groove

Ah, the Eurovision Song Contest. Hardy perennial and long-standing relic of the days when the combined forces of all the state-run television stations across Europe united to produce a 'who can write the tackiest song' competition. The fact that I can precis the show like that will little risk of a flame shows the way the contest is viewed these days, despite the fact that it remains strangely compulsive viewing for one Saturday evening every May. Britain's proud record in the annual telefest has taken something a battering of late with the Irish having now won three years on the trot and last year's entry Lonely Symphony by Frances Rufelle only coming tenth in the final voting. This year though interest is higher than it had been for years, owing to the involvement in the selection process for the British entry of near-legendary impresario Jonathan King. King is a kind of music media guru, credited with discovering Genesis and 10cc amongst others and having in the past rescued the Brit awards from the ignominity of the 1989 ceremony. His involvement in Eurovision this year led to the shortlist of songs comprising one from just about every trendy musical style of the moment, from commercial pop to rap and indie rock. The winners from amongst all of this were Love City Groove, their eponymous entry being in a soul/dance vein and certainly one of the most credible records to be a British Eurovision entry for years. However the high level of interest in the contest has also been in part due to the number of 'cheat' allegations flying around. The fuss started a week before the telephone vote to choose the songs when it appeared some entrants had hired telephone canvassers to place mass votes on their behalf which resulted in a highly publicised letter from the producer of the show that such actions would not be tolerated. Now, after Love City Groove became the runaway winners of the vote it is being claimed that they broke the rules on exposure of the track. In order to ensure each song had a fair crack of the whip, a restricted embargo was placed on airplay for the tracks, which is all well and good except for the fact that Love City Groove has been available as a white label pressing since the start of the year, has been something of a hit in the clubs and in the week before the contest received plays in breach of the embargo by a number of radio stations, including a spin on BBC Radio One's dance show - much to the umbrage of the losing acts. To me the whole thing seems a little silly as an airplay embargo is virtually impossible to enforce - certainly we had copies of most of the entries up to a fortnight before the voting and only the whims of the playlist committee at Head Office stopped them being played. The arguments I'm sure will run and run whilst the single itself is bound to sell in the runup to next months full competition. I bet the Irish still win again... [Britain's attempt to drag Eurovision kicking and screaming into the modern era. We failed, but marvel that this was indeed our entry that year].