Live report

Live report
General information
Genre (s)	pop
founding	1989
resolution	1989
Founding members
singing	Ray Caruana
guitar	John Beeby
bass	Brian Hodgson
Keyboard	Maggie Jay
Keyboard	Mike Bell
Drums	Peter May

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Why Do I Always Get It Wrong   UK 73 05/13/1989 (3 weeks)

Live Report was a British band .

Participation in the Eurovision Song Contest

The band around the Maltese Ray Caruana was founded in 1989 to take part in A song for Europe , the British preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest . With the song Why do I always get it wrong? Composed by John Beeby and written by Brian Hodgson . the group was able to prevail in a field of participants with 12 singers and groups with 111,996 votes against the second placed Julie C with 51,449 votes. At the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 in Lausanne , the band was also successful with the song, which was arranged slightly differently, and achieved second place with 130 points. Despite the good ranking, the song was a commercial flop and the fifth British contribution in a row that could not place in the top 40 of the single charts. The band broke up shortly after participating.

After the dissolution

Ray Caruana took part in the preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest in his home country of Malta in 1994 and took second place with Scarlet song . He now has his own stage show in which he sings songs by Sammy Davis Jr. It has become quiet around the other band members.

Web links

• Live report at the British preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 (video)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart sources: UK
2. ↑ http://www.geocities.ws/national_finals_70s_80s/UK1989.html
3. ↑ http://www.charts-surfer.de/
4. ↑ http://www.geocities.ws/national_finals_90s_00s/Malta1994.html
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.