Johnny Logan - Hold Me Now

'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
Video
Single Version
Living A Lie - B-Side

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Johnny Logan - Hold Me Now - Album

In 1987 Johnny Logan had won the Eurovision for the second time with the song 'Hold Me Now'.

Following on from that success Logan released a second single that year which was a cover of the 10cc song 'I'm Not In Love', produced by Paul Hardcastle.

An album entitled 'Hold Me Now' was also released but the second single and album release did not provide a sustainable market in the UK so Logan then concentrated on the Irish and Europe market.

The album made it to number 83 in the UK Album Charts for 1 week only.

Tracklisting:
01 - Hold Me Now
02 - Stay
03 - Foolish Love
04 - When Your Woman Cries
05 - I'm Not In Love
06 - Helpless Heart
07 - What's Another Year
08 - Heartbroken Man
09 - Living A Lie
10 - Such A Lady

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Johnny Logan - What's Another Year

'What's Another Year" was Johnny Logan's first Eurovision Song Contest winner, achieving success in the 1980 edition of the Contest. This was Ireland's second Contest victory. Composed by Shay Healy, the song reached number one in the UK for two weeks in May.

The song is often misinterpreted as a power ballad, sung from the point of view of a man who has been waiting for the girl of his dreams to fall in love with him. In reality, the song was written by Shay Healy, about watching his father coming to terms with the death of his wife and companion, Mairin.

When showband frontman Glen Curtin, the original choice of singer, turned down 'What's Another Year', the song was rearranged by Bill Whelan to suit Johnny Logan's singing style.

The success of 'What's Another Year' launched Logan's Eurovision career (he would go on to success in 1987 with 'Hold Me Now'). In addition, the song was selected as one of the 14 greatest Eurovision entries in a special to mark the 50th anniversary of the contest.

In Germany, Johnny Logan released a German language version of 'What's Another Year', entitled 'Was ist schon ein Jahr'.

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Promo Video
Eurovision Performance
UK Single Version
Holland Single Version
Was ist schon ein Jahr - German Single Version
One Night Stand - B-Side

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