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| US writer pens UK Eurovision song | US writer pens UK Eurovision song |
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| US songwriter Diane Warren will write the lyrics to Andrew Lloyd Webber's music for this year's UK Eurovision entry, it has been announced. | US songwriter Diane Warren will write the lyrics to Andrew Lloyd Webber's music for this year's UK Eurovision entry, it has been announced. |
| Warren, whose songs include Toni Braxton's Un-Break My Heart and How Do I Live by LeAnn Rimes, said she was thrilled to be working with a "legend". | Warren, whose songs include Toni Braxton's Un-Break My Heart and How Do I Live by LeAnn Rimes, said she was thrilled to be working with a "legend". |
| Meanwhile, singer Damien Flood has become the first act to be thrown off BBC One show Your Country Needs You. | |
| The act which wins the series will represent the UK in Russia in May. | The act which wins the series will represent the UK in Russia in May. |
| Warren - who also wrote Cher's If I Could Turn Back Time, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith, and Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - said: "I hope that a song from Andrew Lloyd Webber and me will spell a change of fortune for the UK at Eurovision. | Warren - who also wrote Cher's If I Could Turn Back Time, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith, and Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - said: "I hope that a song from Andrew Lloyd Webber and me will spell a change of fortune for the UK at Eurovision. |
| This is a massively new direction for me and I cannot wait to get started Andrew Lloyd Webber | This is a massively new direction for me and I cannot wait to get started Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| "We will write the best song possible for the event and for the artist." | "We will write the best song possible for the event and for the artist." |
| Lloyd Webber, meanwhile, said he was excited to be working with "one of America's greatest songwriters". | Lloyd Webber, meanwhile, said he was excited to be working with "one of America's greatest songwriters". |
| "This is a massively new direction for me and I cannot wait to get started," he added. | "This is a massively new direction for me and I cannot wait to get started," he added. |
| On Saturday night's show, Graham Norton revealed that Flood and singer Charlotte Finlay-Tribe had polled the least phone votes from viewers and asked Lloyd Webber to save one of the acts. | |
| The act which will represents the UK in Moscow on 16 May will be announced on 31 January. |