United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979

Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Country	United Kingdom
National selection
Selection process	A Song For Europe 1979
Selection date(s)	9 March 1979
Selected entrant	Black Lace
Selected song	"Mary Ann"
Selected songwriter(s)	Peter Morris
Finals performance
Final result	7th, 73 points
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
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The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1979. A Song for Europe 1979 was planned to take place at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 8 March.

After a day's rehearsals at the Royal Albert Hall a strike by BBC technicians stopped the show. Audio recordings of the songs were voted on by 13 regional juries: Bristol, Bangor, Leeds, Norwich, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Belfast, Cardiff, Plymouth, Glasgow, Southampton and London. The jury in Manchester could not be contacted and therefore did not vote. The following day, the 12 songs were broadcast on Terry Wogan's Radio 2 show and a recap of the top places, plus an interview with the winners took place on the BBC TV Show Nationwide the same evening.

Black Lace were the winners of A Song for Europe with "Mary Ann" and went on to place 7th at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem, Israel.

Results

Draw	Artist	Song	Place	Points
1	Black Lace	"Mary Ann"	1	132
2	Lynda Virtu	"You Are My Life"	8	82
3	Ipswich	"Who Put the Shine on our Shoes"	5	90
4	Herbie Flowers & The Daisies	"Mister Moonlight"	5	90
5	M.Squad	"Miss Caroline Newley"	11	44
6	Eleanor Keenan	"Call my Name"	3	109
7	Guys 'n' Dolls	"How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?"	10	56
8	Linda Kendrick	"All I Needed Was Your Love"	12	33
9	Monte Carlo	"Home Again (Living With You)"	7	83
10	Sal Davis	"Let It All Go"	9	77
11	The Nolan Sisters	"Harry, My Honolulu Lover"	4	101
12	Kim Clark	"Fantasy"	2	117

External links

• UK National Final 1979