Power to All Our Friends
Place: 3
(Total Score: 123)
Lyrics:
Power to all our friends\\nTo the music that never ends\\nTo the people we want to be\\nBaby, power to you and me\\n\nThere's one old man\\nSpends his life growing flowers\\nAnd caring for the bees\\nPower to the bees\\nThere's one old lady\\nSpent her days making wine\\nThe wine tasted fine\\nPower to the wine\\n\nPower to the boys who played rock 'n' roll\\nAnd made my life so sweet\\nAnd to the girls I knew before\\nAnd those I've yet to meet\\n\nPower to all our friends\\nTo the music that never ends\\nTo the people we want to be\\nBaby, power to you and me\\n\nThere's one strong man\\nPloughing in the valley\\nHe's living off the land\\nPower to the land\\n\nThere's some young girl\\nLayin' down in Monte Carlo\\nLayin' in the sun\\nPower to the sun\\n\nPower to the boys who played rock 'n' roll\\nAnd made my life so sweet\\nAnd to the girls I knew before\\nAnd those I've yet to meet\\n\nPower to all our friends\\nTo the music that never ends\\nTo the people we want to be\\nBaby, power to you and me\\n\nPower to the boys who played rock 'n' roll\\nAnd made my life so sweet\\nAnd to the girls I knew before\\nAnd those I've yet to meet\\n\nPower to all our friends\\nTo the music that never ends\\nTo the people we want to be\\nBaby, power to you and me\\n\nTo the music that never ends\\nBaby, power to all our friends
The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1973. It was held on 24 February 1973 and presented by Cilla Black as part of her BBC1 series Cilla. Cliff Richard performed all of the six finalists in the final, where the performances were then immediately repeated. He had previously performed one of the songs weekly in the run up to the final. Richard had been permitted to choose two songs for the shortlist of 12 entries, from which a panel including his manager and producer selected the final six. Viewers cast votes by postcards through the mail to choose the winning song and "Power to All Our Friends" was the winner with 125,505 votes, very nearly four times the score of the runner-up "Come Back Billie-Jo" which polled 34,209. Both songs were released as the A & B-Sides of a single, which reached No.4 in the UK singles chart, Cliff's first top 5 hit since "Congratulations" in 1968 and his last until 1979. For the first and only time in the history of the contest, all the entries from the UK final reached the UK singles chart. Following the release of the top two songs, the remaining four were issued as an extended play Eurovision Special single, which reached No.29 in the charts later in the year. The lead track, "Help It Along" was later released as the title track of Cliff's 1974 live album of Christian gospel music. All six songs were eventually made available on CD compilations. Richard recorded German, Spanish and French versions of the winning song. Eurovision Song Contest 1971 winner Séverine reached No.46 in the French singles chart with her French-language version of the song, "Il faut chanter la vie".
Overall Final Postion: 3
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