US songwriter Diane Warren will write the lyrics to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music for this year’s UK Eurovision entry, it has been announced.
Warren, whose songs include Toni Braxton’s Un-Break My Heart and How Do I Live by LeAnn Rimes, said she was thrilled to be working with a “legend”.
Meanwhile, singer Damien Flood has become the first act to be thrown off BBC One show Your Country Needs You.
The act which wins the series will represent the UK in Russia in May.
Warren - who also wrote Cher’s If I Could Turn Back Time, I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith, and Starship’s Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now - said: “I hope that a
song from Andrew Lloyd Webber and me will spell a change of fortune for the UK at Eurovision
“We will write the best song possible for the event and for the artist.”
Lloyd Webber, meanwhile, said he was excited to be working with “one of America’s greatest songwriters”.
“This is a massively new direction for me and I cannot wait to get started,” he added.
On Saturday night’s show, Graham Norton revealed that Flood and singer Charlotte Finlay-Tribe had polled the least phone votes from viewers and asked Lloyd Webber to
save one of the acts.
The act which will represent the UK in Moscow on 16 May will be announced on 31 January.
“I absolutely know that it would be a mistake to put through somebody who didn’t appear to do the song justice,” he said, but insisted he would ultimately support
whichever act won the public’s backing.
He said he did not have a favourite act of the three, but added: “I think I might say there are two.
“If I haven’t got the right act there’s nothing I can really do to change it,” added the musician.
Webber said the song is “a rocky power ballad”, with lyrics penned by Grammy-winning US songwriter Diane Warren.
He said the UK would do very well to secure its first top 10 Eurovision finish since 2002, and this was the initial stage in the country’s musical comeback.
“I think that’s realistically what we can achieve. But, again, we won’t achieve it with the wrong act.”
But he said the finalists in Your Country Needs You “are infinitely better than anything that Britain has remotely conceived of putting near the stage” in recent
years.
Identical siblings Nicola and Francine, Welshman Mark and Londoner Jade will also sing two cover versions during the final show.
The winner, who will represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest final on 16 May, is also expected to go on a European tour to promote the song ahead of the
competition.
Jade Ewen has been chosen to sing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Eurovision Song Contest entry for the UK in Moscow.
The Londoner won the public vote ahead of Sheffield siblings The Twins and Welshman Mark Evans after all three acts performed My Time.
The ballad, heard for the first time, was composed by Lloyd Webber with US Grammy-winning lyricist Diane Warren.
The composer said he would give “101% commitment” to the singer ahead of the Eurovision final on 16 May.
In an interview ahead of the contest, Lloyd Webber said that he feared one of three final acts would be unable to cope with the pressure of performing at the event.
In the live final of Your Country Needs You, 23-year-old Mark, who until recently appeared in pantomine, finished third in the public vote.
Identical sisters Nicola and Francine Gleadall, whose interpretation of Lloyd Webber’s song won praise from song contest fans, were pipped to the post.
All three acts performed two cover versions during the programme, with Jade singing Beyonce’s Deja Vu and Lady Marmalade.
The singer, whose father is blind and mother is partially sighted, choked back tears as she reprised her Eurovision song.
The singer is now faced with the task of reversing the UK’s very poor recent form at Eurovision, including last place at the 2008 final.
She is expected to go on a tour of Europe to promote the song ahead of the competition.
Lloyd Webber has said that a top 10 placing - last achieved in 2002 - would be a “realistic” goal.
Last year’s UK entry Andy Abraham said Jade would do “a fine job”.
“It’s whether or not the public across Europe still take us seriously enough,” he added.
“We have taken the competition seriously, at least the in last couple of years, but it’s whether or not the political voting is put to one side and they just look at
the songs in their own right.”
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officially as he was trying to escape.
His followers attacked several police stations, threatening to overthrow the government and impose strict Islamic law - but
who exactly are the group known locally as the Taliban?
Since the group emerged in 2004 they have become known as “Taliban”, although they appear to have no links to the Taliban in
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Some analysts believe they took inspiration from the radical Afghans, others say the name is more a term of ridicule used by
people in Maiduguri, the city where they were founded.
The group is also referred to as Boko Haram, which means “Western education is a sin” - one of their core beliefs.
Isa Sanusi, from the BBC’s Hausa service, says the group has no specific name for itself, just many names attributed to it
by local people.
If their name is uncertain, however, their mission appears clear enough: to overthrow the Nigerian state, impose an extreme
interpretation of Islamic law and abolish what they term “Western-style education”.
