'Hold Me Now' is a song composed and performed by Johnny Logan from Ireland.In 1987 Johnny Logan won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song. Logan had previously won with 'What's Another Year?' in the 1980 Contest and would go on to write the winner of the 1992 Contest ('Why Me?' for Linda Martin for whom he had previously written 'Terminal 3' at the 1984 Contest)
The song holds the distinction of being one of the very few self-composed songs to win the Contest, and is regarded by many fans as one of the high points of Contest history, recently being voted the third-best song in Eurovision history (behind 'Waterloo' and 'Nel blu dipinto di blu').
After Logan had been proclaimed the winner with this song, he was overcome with emotion during the reprise and was unable to reach the high notes in this part of the song. As he had when he won in 1980 with 'What's Another Year?', he shouted "I still love you, Ireland".
The song was performed twentieth on the night. At the close of voting, it had received 172 points, placing 1st in a field of 22.
In the UK the single made it to number 2 in the charts and was a top ten hit through out Europe.
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Eurovision Performance
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Single Version
Living A Lie - B-Side
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