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Engelbert Humperdinck to sing for UK at Eurovision

The UK is sending 75 year old Engelbert Humperdinck to try and win the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Blue didn’t do it. Andrew Lloyd Webber didn’t pass. So now the UK is sending 75 year old Engelbert Humperdinck to try and win the Eurovision Song Contest (how about just sending a good song?).

Humperdinck’s last hit was more than 40 years ago, but he still has a fan base which may generate phone votes.

Humperdinck said: “I’m excited and raring to go.”

The unnamed song is being written by Sacha Skarbek – who teamed up with James Blunt to compose his global hit You’re Beautiful – and Grammy-winning producer Martin Terefe.

But UK rock critic Neil McCormick called it “either an act of desperation or a stroke of genius.”

“Clearly, the notion that our thriving national pop culture should be embodied by a 75-year-old cabaret crooner is someone’s idea of an ironic joke.”

The 57th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in May in Baku, Azerbaijan and airs on SBS.

Tickets for the first Semi-Final went on sale this week.

Source: London Evening Standard

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  1. Haha uk are always doomed in this competition because none of the other countries vote for us! It doesn’t matter who we send! Eurovision= addictive rubbish!

  4. Excuse my pedantry, David, but his last hit was 1977’s “After the lovin'” – a big success in Australia, and he has continued to record and tour since. But i do concede that a 75 year old is an odd choice – but if it were Tom Jones or Cilla Black would it be similarly odd?

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