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}} "Love Shine a Light" was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, performed by Katrina and the Waves as the 1997 Eurovision entrant by the UK and the lead single from the album ''Walk on Water''. It is the group's biggest success since "Walking on Sunshine" 12 years earlier. ==Composition/''Great British Song Contest''== The song was composed by the group's guitarist and regular songwriter Kimberley Rew following a request from the brother of the group's drummer Alex Cooper for an anthem for The Samaritans in recognition of that organization's thirtieth anniversary, Cooper's brother being a member of the Swindon branch of the Samaritans. In a 1997 interview Katrina and the Waves lead vocalist Katrina Leskanich indicated that it was members of the Samaritans who opined that "Love Shine a Light" "was the type of song which would win the Eurovision Song Contest and () at the last minute, (and the Waves ) submitted the song with our £250 (fee )" 〔(THE SAMARITANS SAVED MY CAREER; Katrina's charity lifeline. - Free Online Library )〕 for consideration to vie in the ''Great British Song Contest'', the national preselection round for the UK in Eurovision 1997. It was also reported that Carmina Cooper, the manager of Katrina and the Waves and the wife of Alex Cooper, met up with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's breakfast presenter (and Head of Music) Dan Chisholm to play the track for him: Chisholm's response was to urge that the number be entered in the ''Great British Song Contest'', and after affording "Love Shine a Light" its radio airplay debut Chisholm declared it "the song which will win this year's Eurovision Song Contest". In a 2010 interview Leskanich would state that ''Great British Song Contest'' executive producer Jonathan King had in fact initiated Katrina and the Waves involvement in the ''Great British Contest'' as he'd contacted Leskanich to ask if her group had a song which might be a suitable contender to vie to become the UK entrant at Eurovision 1997. Leskanich would paraphrase her response to King as being: "Yes, we have this song called 'Love Shine A Light' which we’ve never put on a record because it's too cheesy, too ABBA, too Eurovision, so it would be perfect for you."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Metro )〕 Leskanich stated in 2010 that the original plan was that an act other than Katrina and the Waves would be found to perform "Love Shine a Light" for Eurovision consideration but that Warner Bros. Records executive Steve Allan - who Leskanich describes as "a big Eurovision fan...it’s always been his dream to win it" - said: "Look, you guys have a name, we can still do business in Europe. All you need is a hit song, and we want you to do it. And if you do do it we’ll give you a record deal"; adds Leskanich: "So we couldn’t say no." Leskanich would also state that Kimberley Rew had said of Katrina and the Waves pursuing the Eurovision 1997 title with his composition: "I’m not having anything to do with it".〔 In fact Rew would play guitar on stage while Leskanich sang "Love Shine a Light" - Rew being the only instrumentalist onstage -on the March 9, 1997 broadcast of the ''Great British Song Contest'' final which program also featured a taped interview with Rew in which he described Eurovision as "one of those great institutions of life"; also Rew accompanied Leskanich onstage to be congratulated for "Love Shine a Light"'s being announced at the UK entrant for Eurovision 1997.〔(Great British Song Contest 1997 - YouTube )〕 However Rew was absent from the Katrina and the Waves performance of "Love Shine a Light" at the Eurovision 1997 final held on May 3, 1997. One of eight songs aired in the ''Great British Song Contest'' semi-final broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on February 7, 1997, "Love Shine a Light" was one of four songs advanced by televote to the ''Great British Song Contest'' final. The ''Great British Song Contest'' final was a live performance show broadcast by BBC TV on March 9, 1997, at the conclusion of which "Love Shine a Light" was announced as the 1997 UK entrant in Eurovision, the song having received 69,834 televotes – 11,138 more than the second-place finisher. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Love Shine a Light」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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