A Song For Europe 1984
The television show A Song for Europe was used once again to select the British entry, as it had since the United Kingdom's debut at the Contest in 1957. It was held on Wednesday 4 April and was hosted once again by Terry Wogan. Of the entrants, songwriter Paul Curtis had no less than four of the eight entries (going on to take three of the top four places). Singers Sinitta and Hazell Dean would later go on to become successful chart acts - both under the producership of Stock Aitken Waterman. The latter scoring her first top 10 hit just a few weeks after the contest.
| Draw | Song | Composer | Artist | Points | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Magical Music" | Mike Finesilver | Caprice | 60 | 6th |
| 02 | "Look at Me Now" | Jeremy Hall | Nina Shaw | 78 | 3rd |
| 03 | "This Love is Deep" | Steve Glen, Mike Burns & Nicky Chinn | Bryan Evans | 53 | 8th |
| 04 | "Love Games" | Paul Curtis & Graham Sacher | Belle and the Devotions | 112 | 1st |
| 05 | "Where the Action Is" | Paul Curtis & Graham Sacher | First Division | 79 | 2nd |
| 06 | "Let it Shine" | Paul Curtis | Miriam Anne Lesley | 62 | 5th |
| 07 | "Imagination" | Tony Hiller & Paul Curtis | Sinitta | 77 | 4th |
| 08 | "Stay in My Life" | Hazell Dean & Mike Bradley | Hazell Dean | 55 | 7th |
Edinburgh, Norwich, Belfast, London, Cardiff, Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham were the centres delivering their votes. As usual it was 15 points to their favourite followed by 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 and 5.
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