Katrina and the waves - Love shine a light (eurovision live)

[gelach55]

This song, and lovely Katrina is best at my life, she `s so beauty and great, i love her voice i listening so often and for a long time, great singer in the world.

[davyboy232]

katrina was an american

[lincsposter]

@davyboy232 She was Canadian by birth! NOT American!

What about this Eurovision? We each select ONE person to hear an entry from every country, but in English! BUT not knowing where they came from! Jury in Gibraltar or Faroe Islands so no knowledge. Secret! This is phase one of the idea! I, like many in Europe are sick of political voting... mainly from countries that do NOT fund Eurovision! What you think?

[saintmirrenmalky]

@lincsposter She was born In Kansas. That makes her American.

[lincsposter]

@saintmirrenmalky I bow to your superior knowledge... but I cannot find if she has taken UK citizenship! She could sing for the UK because she is resident here.

[amy4see]

doing this song in gang show this year XD

i love it

[saintmirrenmalky]

The quintessential 3 minute pop song. Catchy, with feel good factor and a big chorus. I remember watching this live all those years ago. I turned to my then girlfriend and said "Job done. That's the winner".

[HermioneNo1]

I guess it helps being a pro - and they had been ROCKING for some time then!!!:-)

[lincsposter]

When Eurovision was Eurovision!

[Hipsishere]

The song has to be as corney as you can get xD but lovely and defo one of the best ever on Eurovision. I remember everyone going 'yes!' when the assembly teacher used to make us sing it at school in the late 90's when we was like 9 or 10 lol, but shame they don't do real music like that anymore on Eurovision :(

[rafa73i]

Just fantastic ... really catchy song... people of all ages would enjoy this

[tylerdurden786]

Probably best ever Eurovision song. Better than ABBA

[singingindark12]

possibly one of the most beautiful 1st place songs in Eurovision. at least top 3 in my mind...

[rafa73i]

Now, that is an A1

[PierreJeanPierre]

That's how you win Eurovision. Not with a shitty boys band.

[BritainsGotTalentBen]

RIP UK

[fodsaks]

The UK will never win Eurovision again, so long as all the former Eastern block countries are daisy-chaining each other.

[inika17]

@fodsaks

Not all the former eastern block , but only ex-Soviet Union and ex-Yugoslavia .They used to vote each other. Poland , Hungary,Czech, Slovakia has the same problems at Eurovision like western countries

[Ali74]

@fodsaks and also will never win again so long as the UK continue to treat it as a joke

The Eurovision is loved and lampooned in the UK.. it gets viewed for the comedy element..., and no serious UK artist would ever put appear on it. Deadbeats represent the UK.. virtual unknowns...or.. acts who are going nowhere (Blue) and have nothing to lose.

[succeed06]

@fodsaks no one is daisy chaining each other the UK havent won since simply because they have been shit...name me one entry that has been worthy of winning?

[schusterlehrling]

Kimberley Rew was the winner of the ESC 1997, as not the performer wins, but the writer.

It is a song contest , not a perfomer contest.

[RogerHerhard]

she moved from america as she said it was one big shithole

[ksbnr1]

@JoshyouwaMany She may be American but she's lived in the UK since 1976, so she's lived here for 34 years and lived in America for 16 so she's basically English.

[lincsposter]

Who cares where she came from? Celine Dion has sung in Eurovision and nobody cared! This song had great support from all over Europe! I think it still holds the record for the largest winning margin! Please correct me if I am wrong!

[forsey2008]

@lincsposter it was beaten in 2009 by Norway's entry 'Fairytale'

[Palencia1397]

Katrina is from Topeka, Kansas

[MupakJl]

@JoshyouwaMany well that doesn't quite make the band American. As well as it doesn't give America the credit for this song (by that i mean your love :D)

[MupakJl]

@JoshyouwaMany actually it's British. Check the Wikipedia.

[MupakJl]

@JoshyouwaMany what america has to do with this?

[Gloria0017]

it s great song but it s also sad how is obvious that it isnt her voice...

[juannadie72]

@Gloria0017 it IS her voice, it's the video that it's out of synchro with sound

[cnaizhen]

@Gloria0017 Er.. it's a live show and a contest at that, do you think that no one will notice if it is not her voice?

[tan90ful]

awesome song.. i sang this song for my music gcse

[Dendiol]

Would be nice to win again!

[fabbyboy]

Fabulous - I just added a montage of Love Shine A Light from Eurovision 1997

[vheinrici]

epic, greatest song in the world

[TheSkyline400r]

yeaaaaaaa england won something lol yeaaaaa....gud song tho

[thomasparg]

still the best eurovision song in my opinion!

[calvinagain]

one of the best eurovision songs ever

[1967tuncay]

this song would win in every song contest. it was awesome, it was great, it was a song to think about

[andybryant30]

this is cool

[rasmusmarin]

THE best ever....even if i´m from denmark and we won in 2000, this is still the best song ever.....

[Truntesen22]

One of my favorites.. :D

[TheMikey1701]

what a song , the UK will never be able to produce a winner as good as this one for a long time , although anybody feel if politically then Uk coalition works out europe might love us again ? Eurovision 2013/4 - UK ?

[triqualina]

@TheMikey1701 

[MetalheadBLADE]

@TheMikey1701 No, in fact it will make us even worse enemies. They want to recluse us from europe.

[trishaa46]

Awsome!

[farhannius]

ah good times, this is when the rest of Europe would actually vote for us because they didn't hate us politically.

[ChaosDMNS]

@farhannius

Can't speak for the rest of Europe. But I've never met anyone that hates you or heard anything negative about the UK here in Norway, dunno what you mean by "hate us politically" If it's the whole Iraq thing you referring to, then I assure you. we blame the US. not you.

[BluebirdintheSky]

@ChaosDMNS I think too much emphasis is placed on the Iraq aspect, mainly because the first year the UK came last (with 0 points) was the year after the Iraq invasion but the fact was it was a naff song badly performed on the night. Even the "voting for your neighbours" element in Eurovision is mostly down to being the langunages you are most likely to understand. More countries singing in English has almost put an end to that.

[josesepecial93]

Quite possibly the last UK winner in my lifetime, and that is an absolute tragedy. But it's what we will get if we have entries like we did from 2003-2008. This shows what's needed - just a great song. Political voting is a hindrance, some it's farcical, but most years the best song does win. This was great.

[BluebirdintheSky]

@josesepecial93 I thought our 2004, 2005 & 2008 songs deserved to win or at least to be in the top 5. The only reason the 2009 entry did better was because the UK did what other countries do and promoted its song and artist in Europe prior to the competition, and the voting was taken out of being totally in the hands of the public again and a voting panel was reintroduced. Not that the panel always got it right when it was 100% panel voting. They made some right clangers - e.g 1989 and 1992.

[josesepecial93]

@BluebirdintheSky 2004, perhaps deserved to be in the Top 5 in a year with not far off a horrific winner. 2005 was a poor attempt at trying to copy the apparent wanted style, and I know there's a video on here with the audacity to compare it to Greece's win in that year. Just nothing special and not worthy of a Top 5 place as far as I'm concerned. 2008 finished last. I don't think Europe gets it that wrong, and not does 67 in the UK chart.

[HelenDiazOfficial]

ooh beautiful song :) xx

[KrasseChecker]

does anybody know, why this song is not available on any cd???

this is such s shame... :-(

[MrLucyball]

@KrasseChecker

[MrLucyball]

@KrasseChecker amazon should hav it.

[MrLucyball]

@KrasseChecker I got a copy a few months ago from amazon.The eurovision party album is good too. Good luck.

[Derwentcub]

@KrasseChecker I bought the single in 1997, just after Katrina's win. There was this version, plus an upbeat lengthy remix on the same CD. There must be plenty of copies still available on sites like Amazon, I should think. Good luck!

[Derwentcub]

THE best - Katrina is wonderful!

[lmo222]

wow, a eurovision winner with a good song! doesn't happen frequently.......

[dbailey62]

Katrina sure has great pipes!

[Entenminator]

Shine a Light!!!

[meerkeza]

I love this song. Me and my mum love it, i think its one of the few songs that actually shows a unity between all countries :) brothers and sisters :) even if its just for the 3 mins of the song x

[munkus45]

Dear sheffandcare,

go to wikipedia, find Eurovision Song Concert XX (year), analyse voting result from "old" freak european countries. 12 from Cyprus goes to Greece, 12 from Greece goes to Cyprus etc, No comments.

Greetings from Poland, a freek country.

[sheffandcare]

fab song...used to luv the eurovision until those freak eastern european countries start voting for each other

[Chazzoli]

yeah just like the UK and Ireland always vote for each other.

[traineespark]

no... norway --> sweden, france --> germany all them shitty countries in eastern europe do it too.... dont talk s**t!

[robbo5002]

@Chazzoli yeah 2 countries vote for each other is exactly the same as 25 countries voting for each other...

[tranmere28]

erm i think you will be wrong there if you check the history on it very very very wrong

[traineespark]

everyone does it for the neighbours... politics im afraid. always has been!

[93rman]

why did not this song number #1 in UK???'

[MiliMiliane]

Quite old but I still enjoy this song a lot.

[ThePolarLights]

Awesome song!

[niwadiensten]

it is not synchrone but it's a nice number! ;-)

[supermadrid1]

La mejor cancion de la historia de eurovison junto con "waterloo" (SWE) "halleluyah" (ISR) y "la la la" (ESP)

[tektonskodvizenje]

it was the best song in the euovision history :D I like to Partez pas sans moi (1988) Celine Dion, And Yugoslavia :D

[Digge]

great songer! :P

[DenmarkEurovision]

Awesome stage :D

and obviosuly I don't need to tell you how awesome the song is

[dannipinkstar]

its a lovley song :)

[eightiessongs]

This band were truly great musicians and wrote really good songs. I saw them play a college ball in 1988 at Leicester university and they performed a blistering set, even though the hits had dried up and they had no need to try. They did have a deserved hit in America with 'hat's the way'in 1989, but then silence until this great comeback in 1997. A sadly underrated band who know how to deliver a song like this to win hands down. Superb performance on the night as well.

[amaiacm]

Totally agree. I have their Greatest Hits album and they have many great songs.

[LPrulezhard]

love the song, old classic :D keep rockin :D

[colz78]

Its funny to think that UK and Ireland dominated so much of the 90s ESC, yet us Brits winge now that we dont dominate - i dont remember the other countries complain when we had it all sewn up in the 90s!! lol

[0800Hanabi]

THANK YOU. That is a very good point.

[ArtyEffem]

We're only complaining about the blatantly biased voting going on amongst the trash countries that have been allowed to compete more latterly.

All we ever want is a level playing field.

[colz78]

Apparently though, if you took out the bloc voting, the same countries would have scored just as highly, as our patterns were the same.

I see bloc voting is a problem, and having juries back has corrected that.

Got to remember the UK has its own wee bloc with Ireland and Malta. Not as big as the Baltic, Scandinavian or Soveit Bloc, but a bloc all the same!

[Brooksider100]

You weren't in those countries so you have no idea what their 'Wogans' were saying. What a juvenile observation.

[redbomberinc]

Fantastic Song!!

[Cleojasp]

Shit song, shit music, shit people, shit competition - get a life! All shit! XXX

[camagurkah]

GREAT song.....BAD video....!!!! Is this you tube? My gosh!

[Niiiiiiickk]

Bad quality movie, not sync, tough it's a great song!

[marinesfan]

ボビーの原曲！

[love26lotte]

@marinesfan そうです！！

[ritchie69]

1997 was a great year ...............

[PrinzPaiz]

out of sync

[vladimirdmitry]

this is a really good song! No wonder we won, we came 2nd in 98 aswell.

[andehaj]

I agree about that...

You know that Norway came 2nd in 1996, and Ireland came 2nd in 1997?

[vladimirdmitry]

yes they did, Eurovision in the 90's was gr8 4 U.K. n Ireland

[TheLENNON25]

It won Eurovision so nothing wrong with it, great song

[pinksmilesrock]

Oh im singing this in choir its the best song ever invented

[kalurank]

great hymn! deserved to win - OF COURSE!

[AlexHWalker]

I love this song it brings me to heaven I love living in the UK!!! ;-P

[jcclone]

Witten by Kimberley Rew, who has three fantastic solo albums out, as well as having played guitar with the Soft Boys.

In my humble opinion this isn't even close to being one of his best songs.

[heslop01]

Hehe - I remember singing and doing a routine in assembly once when I was in primary school.

Oh the days of being a kid :(

Love this song! - Bought the single (well, my mum did when I asked)

[Annemjoek]

If every ESC-song had this quality, it would be worth it to arrange one!!!

[brandyman32]

correction aharvey THIS IS the best eurovision entry ever puer class :)

[aharvey17]

one of the best eurovision songs ever!!

[Annemjoek]

indeed!!! Fuck that Alexander-boything!!!

[xillax]

@aharvey17

not

[Chimpokomon56748]

I remember noel gallagher said before it was released he was thinking bout entering 'all around the world' in the ESC what an entry that would of been. Could only imagine what daft jacket liam would of worn lol

[sukiesoya]

AMAZING song.

[GlueBubb1e]

Amazingly this song was switched last minute as 'The Samaritans' theme tune to that years Eurovision Song, we were obviously as committed that year as we are this year.

[stratosl]

The only good song that UK ever sent...Where are you now is good, too (1998). After that, SHIT

[FilCroft]

I disagree

[girlinemptyroom]

We wonw we won we won!!

I tell you, England need to remember this and start actually caring again!!

This song is just Awesome!

[K33V4N]

england? dont you mean britain?

[girlinemptyroom]

Yes, I do.

Great Britain!!

Rock!

[Lucienofficial]

United Kingdom!!!

[girlinemptyroom]

Of Course!!

[fabbyboy]

Fab

Check out Katrina's new tunes on MySpace - you can search on Katrina or Katrina Leskanich

[shanksno1]

it's not about winning or losing but the message in this song just brilliant ; ) xx Thanks for posting this, love it xx

[amaiacm]

I remember that night and yeah, they deserved to win the contest. This song is maybe one of the best in the Eurovision history.

[karinebutcher]

One of the best UK Entrants by far!! Shame we have had no success since, but think that has alot to do with Eastern Europe and the Balkans, oh and also not having very good songs!!

[metagaia]

The second performance was more interesting, when she was too drunk to sing properly ;-)

[Lucienofficial]

is that imaani in the back doing backing vocals?!

[lubisko]

Apparently, according to Wikipedia, Miriam Stockley is one of the backing singers.

[sweetasstabz22]

Might have something to do with the lyrics, what beautiful heartwarming lyrics. And we're going to shine a light together, let our love shine a light in every corner of the world! xx

[xdeepinthoughtx]

UK won!

Brilliant. It's a pity we didnt just stop then....saved us the Jemini humiliation.

[parakleo]

I'm very glad to be the first to post a comment on this particlular site. I am a Katrina and the Waves fan. So this was a nice surprise to me that they got back together briefly and did another song.

[cornishkid1]

I just heard this song on the UK Eurovision Decision, in which Andy Abraham won..im dissapointed in that decision but anyway. i love this song! i cant belive it won us the Eurovision!....im so pleased we won! that must have been AMAZING...

[girlinemptyroom]

Um... I tell you, it was MORE than amazing!

I screamed, I have been hooked ever since...

And ever since,. We''ve got nowhere...

Hmmm, maybe I should stop watching...?

(Although, The 1998 entry was awesome... Lindsay Dracass...)

[girlinemptyroom]

Sorry 2001!!!

Dumb Me!!