JOY Eurovision

2 Mar 2012

The United Kingdom releases

National Finals

Intentional or not, the BBC without a doubt definitely did a great job building suspense when it came to announcing their entrant for this year.

After a dramatic Twitter & Facebook wait, the BBC announced only a few hours ago this morning (AEDT) that Engelbert Humperdinck will be representing the UK at Eurovision. Song details have yet to be announced, but it will be a song by one of Adele’s songwriters. Perhaps a bit of History Repeating in Baku?

Here is one of his classics:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx22NriMQFg]

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