“Making Your Mind Up” by Bucks Fizz, United Kingdom. If you wanted your favourite singer to represent your country at Eurovision, the same rules applied. 4. Eurovision was bringing us unique dance routines, even way back in the 80s, when the song contest was held in Dublin. The group appeared in the UK selection competition Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up on BBC One on Saturday 17 March 2007, singing and performing their song "Flying the Flag (For You)". You must have been living under a rock for the past few decades if you’re unfamiliar with the winners of the 1981 Eurovision. Before Eurovision Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up. “‘Making Your Mind Up’ was a good Eurovision song, no doubt about it, but the outfits and the rip away skirts were the icing on the cake that won the competition for us and I’m pretty sure of that.” Bucks Fizz rehearsing their 1981 Eurovision Song Contest winning track 'Making Your Mind Up' If your favourite show was up for the axe, you could write a letter and make your case for it to be spared, but organised campaigns needed effort – and a lot of stamps. Brotherhood Of Man with Save Your Kisses For Me in 1976 Bucks Fizz with Making Your Mind Up in 1981 Katrina & The Waves with Love Shine A Light in … On 28 February 2006, it was announced that Scooch were to reform for a Eurovision Song Contest bid. ... Cheryl Baker on 40 years of 'Making Your Mind Up' The group was created especially for the UK televised selection contest, "A Song for Europe" (a programme which in later years would be renamed to "Making Your Mind Up"). The four piece repeated the success of Brotherhood of Man by coming out on top in '81, despite criticisms that they were out of key during the performance. The United Kingdom made its debut in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957. At Eurovision in Dublin, they defeated Germany's Lena Valaitis by four points. Perhaps this theme of winning with a fun, catchy tune is best represented by their most recent wins. The UK has also finished second a record 15 times and also has the record for the longest-running string of Top 5 placings. Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up was the national final developed by the BBC in order to select the British entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Bucks Fizz - 'Making Your Mind Up' (1981) If you wonder why a Eurovision winner usually needs some kind of gimmick, then you can probably blame the Fizz and their skirt-ripping routine for that. You just need to say which country they represented so, in the words of the UK’s 1981 winners Bucks Fizz, it’s time to be making your mind up. The 1981 group Bucks Fizz performed the fun bop Making Your Mind Up and Katrina and the Waves' sung the memorable Love Shine A Light in 1997 which was performed again by the participants from Eurovision 2020 in the online broadcast event Eurovision: Love Shine A Light. To date, the UK has won the Eurovision Song Contest 5 times. Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up. MindUP, a signature program of The Goldie Hawn Foundation, is a 15-lesson CASEL SELect Program empowering children through mindful practice based in neuroscience.