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According To The BBC Website, Pete Waterman Is To Pen This Year's UK Euro Song.
"Hitmaker Pete Waterman is to write and produce this year's UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
The music mogul, who has produced more than 200 hit songs over the past 25 years, said he was "relishing the opportunity" to pen the track. "Eurovision is one of those iconic competitions that has stood the test of time and keeps coming up with great acts, great tunes and great performances," Waterman said. "Life's full of challenges and I'm relishing the opportunity to put my own stamp on this one." 'Track record' Phil Parsons, executive producer of Eurovision for the BBC, said: "This year, with an extremely successful pop writer, the aim is to build on the UK's success while moving on in style and doing something different. "Pete Waterman has an incredible track record of hits that are known all around Europe so we're thrilled that he has taken on Eurovision." Waterman is following in the footsteps of Andrew Lloyd Webber, who created the 2009 effort with US songwriter Diane Warren. My Time, performed by Jade Ewan, came fifth in the contest in Moscow. During the 1980s, Waterman was a member of the highly-successful recording trio Stock Aitken Waterman who launched the career of Kylie Minogue among others. He was also behind the hits of artists from Donna Summer, Geri Halliwell, Westlife and Bananarama to Steps, Rick Astley and Dead Or Alive." What fantastic news. Forget, Cowell and his covers, Pete Waterman is where it is at. Pete has been responsible, along with others, for writing, arranging and producing some of the best pop music over the last 25 years. I have always loved Pete's music, so this is very exciting news for me, for other fans of Pete Waterman and the Eurovision Song Contest. Looking forward to hearing the song. Anyone know when it is going to be released? |
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They could get Dennis Waterman to do it and it still wouldn't matter. In fact they could get a panel together of Bowie, Ray Davies, Brian Eno & Graham Nash, lock them in a room and not let them out until they'd written the best pop song ever created, it STILL wouldn't matter.
It's a stitch-up that we have ZERO chance of ever winning again. Treat it with the contempt it deserves and switch it off. Go down the pub instead. |
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Pete has been responsible, along with others, for writing, arranging and producing some of the best pop music over the last 25 years.
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why dont we just not enter eurovision instead of punishing ourselves year after year trying to win something not worth having .
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why dont we just not enter eurovision instead of punishing ourselves year after year trying to win something not worth having .
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Because we are one of the Big Four who fund the annual sing-a-thon.
To get cheated once is just one of those things. It happens. To get cheated year after year and keep going back again expecting a different outcome smacks of madness. If the Eastern Europeans want a cozy back-scratchathon they should pay for it. |
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hi miles...
oh no... not him again, another round of waterman bashing coming right up! lol actually, his nursery rhyme, cheesy pop might just appeal to the euro voters... |
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Yes the BBC are one of the main countries to fund the contest, but what we pay is the equivilant of 10 minutes of a Doctor Who episode, and for that the BBC get 7 hours of live television which still gets good ratings. It's just fun so why the hell not?
Plus we got a very respectable result last year...how quickly people forget. I'm not sure what having Pete Waterman on board will mean for our results but one thing I'm pretty sure of is that there will be alot of co-writers and co-producers on this. Pete Waterman is (as ever) just the face of it. |
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hi miles...
oh no... not him again, another round of waterman bashing coming right up! lol actually, his nursery rhyme, cheesy pop might just appeal to the euro voters... I wondered how long it would be before you found this thread. I am genuinely excited about it, the Wurovision thing I mean. You can always guarentee a good song when Pete Waterman is involved, purely subjective ofcourse.
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Cynically I don't think the BBC wants the UK to win because of the actual cost of putting on the show.
Occasionally in regards entries, we've put in in a half-decent effort and sometimes we've put in right jokes. At least they've fixed the voting system which gives the UK a chance of respectability but if you think the UK gets stitched up then the French, the Germans and the Spanish have as much to complain about (of those three I think the French have at least 'tried' putting in some listenable songs whilst the Germans and the Spanish have put some right gimmicky entries in there). I pity the act that has to represent the UK. |
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Yes. And why do we do that? Honestly I want to know, why on earth are we funding something that is totally stacked against us? Are the people responsible for making these decisions on how to spend our money utterly stupid?
To get cheated once is just one of those things. It happens. To get cheated year after year and keep going back again expecting a different outcome smacks of madness. If the Eastern Europeans want a cozy back-scratchathon they should pay for it. You probably don't know, but the UK came 5th last year and we got points from 33 countries. How is that stacked against us? The main reason why we did so badly in the past decade is because we sent appalling songs that deserved to be at the bottom of the scoreboard. It's got nothing to do with this 'eastern european bias' hysteria championed by Terry Wogan. :yawn: Also, Eurovision is extremely cheap for the BBC. It costs them just £170,000 for 7.5 hours of entertainment. Compare that to 1 hour of Strictly which costs around £250,000, or 45 minutes of Doctor Who which costs £1m. Finally, the host broadcaster pays for virtually the entire show, the fees that the countries pay to take part is miniscule. ![]() Just thought I'd give you the facts.
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awful news, Pete is completely out of touch with the modern music market. His 'image' for One True Voice proved how stuck in the 80s he is.
not that it really matters who we stick in there, we won't win anyhow. |
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awful news, Pete is completely out of touch with the modern music market. His 'image' for One True Voice proved how stuck in the 80s he is.
not that it really matters who we stick in there, we won't win anyhow. |
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why dont we just not enter eurovision instead of punishing ourselves year after year trying to win something not worth having .
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He hasn't had a hit since Steps and when was the last time before that? Kylie? He hasn't a clue about today's music. He'll probably have some euro-pop style song for them to sing.
We only did well last uyear due to Andrew Loyyd Webber being in the stage |
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He hasn't had a hit since Steps and when was the last time before that? Kylie? He hasn't a clue about today's music. He'll probably have some euro-pop style song for them to sing.
We only did well last uyear due to Andrew Loyyd Webber being in the stage
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They could get Dennis Waterman to do it and it still wouldn't matter. In fact they could get a panel together of Bowie, Ray Davies, Brian Eno & Graham Nash, lock them in a room and not let them out until they'd written the best pop song ever created, it STILL wouldn't matter.
It's a stitch-up that we have ZERO chance of ever winning again. Treat it with the contempt it deserves and switch it off. Go down the pub instead. |
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While One True Voice weren't his finest moment, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the success he had with Steps between '97 and '01. Steps and their records were great, you have to admit it, and Pete was the mastermind behind them.
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thats subjective m8... i detested steps even more then his S/A/W material.
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The reason we don't win is because our songs are shit. Of course the Eastern Europeans vote for each other; they are entrenched in each others' styles of music, so you need to blow that out of the water to come anywhere near the top. We have consistently failed to do that for the past 10 years, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a musical philistine.
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The reason we don't win is because our songs are shit. Of course the Eastern Europeans vote for each other; they are entrenched in each others' styles of music, so you need to blow that out of the water to come anywhere near the top. We have consistently failed to do that for the past 10 years, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a musical philistine.
Norway won with highest ever score Iceland came 2nd UK came 5th Greece came 7th France came 8th Greece won in 2005 and Finland won in 2006. Also, to get into the top 10 in eurovision, you need points from lots of countries as all 40+ vote in the final. It is impossible to do well just by getting votes from a small group of neighbours. |
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Subjective indeed, but Steps married Abba (who I also love) stylie songs with good, quality, up-to-date pop.
only an idiot would criticise abba, whos musical creativity enriched popular music. only an idiot WOULDNT criticise steps! whos generic dumbed down manufactured tripe added nothing to music.
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Forget, Cowell and his covers, Pete Waterman is where it is at. 