Paul Gambaccini was on Radio 2 this morning explaining/justifying the choice. Apparently the BBC have given up on putting in a pop song that will appeal to the young masses and istead have chosen Engelbert to go for
1) the old geezer vote as no-one else is likely to put in an old geezer (for good reason, they don't stand a chance) and
2) the ultra hip vote.
Apparently he has a big "ultra-hip" following in New York as he sang a song about a Lesbian Seagull in 'Beavis and Butthead do America' in 1996, so that will be high up in the memory of all those people voting from the States - it's a (expletive deleted!) EUROPEAN song contest.
I don't go along with Ross's view, I think they're in La La Land the lot of them, and I don't mean singalong La La
