Name It You Got It~Micky Moonshine~1974

Micky Moonshine, real name Paul Michael Curtis.
English singer, songwriter, record producer from London, who holds the record for the highest number of songs to make the finals of the A Song for Europe contest. Four of his songs have won the UK selection contest with his debut attempt, "Let Me Be The One" by The Shadows, doing best at Eurovision, finishing in second place at the final in Stockholm, Sweden in 1975. His second song to go on to the Eurovision final, which he wrote in collaboration with Graham Sacher, "Love Games" by Belle and the Devotions, caused a storm of controversy when it was booed from the stage in Luxembourg. Curtis and his co-writer Sacher, were accused of plagiarism, and the singers on stage were largely faking their performance.
In addition, Curtis has twice sung his own compositions in the UK national competition, "No Matter How I Try" (1982), and as leader of Duke and the Aces in 1980, performing "Love Is Alive".
Of the four songs that Curtis wrote to win the UK competition, all made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. The Shadows' "Let Me Be The One" reached #12 in 1975; in 1984 Belle and the Devotions' "Love Games" hit #11; Emma (Booth) peaked at #33 with "Give A Little Love Back to the World" in 1990;and Samantha Janus scored a #30 hit in 1991 with "A Message To Your Heart".
Some artists got their first break by recording Curtis compositions and performing them in the Eurovision heat. Hazell Dean and Sinitta both made their TV debuts in A Song for Europe. David Ian was part of two groups who sang Curtis songs, First Division in 1984 and Jump in 1986.
Curtis was married to singer Ronnie France, who herself performed one of her husband's compositions in the 1978 UK final, "Lonely Nights". He had a son in 1978, John-Paul whilst married to Ronnie France. In 1984, Curtis wrote four of the eight finalists for the competition, having written three out of eight in 1982.
Paul Curtis recorded under the name of Mickey Moonshine for one single "Name It You Got It" on the UK Decca label in 1974.

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