Steps Could Have Scored Douze Points for the UK at Eurovision
Pete Waterman reveals supergroup were lined up for Eurovision.
There’s a wistful look in the eyes of many British Eurovision fans this week as Pete Waterman’s interview in the Radio Teams reveals a little bit of could-have-been history about the Eurovision Song Contest.
Simon Cowell and the team behind Steps were pushing hard to get their debut single, “5, 6, 7, 8” as the UK entrant into the Eurovsion Song Contest.
With the song released in late November 1997 we’re thinking that they were gunning for the 1998 Song Contest, as the dates fit with submitting the song for the audition process. 1997 of course saw the UK win the contest with "Katrina and the Waves, providing eventual representative Imanni with home advantage.
Would Steps have managed to go one better than Imanni’s second place at the Birmingham NEC? That’s a tough call, as 1998 had the UK, Malta and Israel all in with a shout at the end. The romantic in me thinks they would have managed it…
But the only real-world comparison I can think of Germany’s Texas Lightning in the 2006 contest. Which managed to place 15th. Whoops.
Waterman of course became involved with them after the success of the techno-line dancing hit as Steps went on to be the closest thing to Abba since… err Abba won Eurovision. Strange that.
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