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2.2.02

A Song For Europe: Song 5: I Give In
Artist: Surf 'n' Turf
Writers: Jonathan & Peter Maitland, Jackie Collins
Very repetitive pub rock. The worst of the eight songs, but I’ve a horrible feeling that Radio 2 listeners will get this into the last four. Jonathan Maitland is famous to many TV viewers. He used to do Watchdog for the BBC, and now (apparently) does Tonight With Trevor McDonald for ITV. In between times, he has presented House Of Horrors, the programme where he hides in your attic while hidden cameras film the plumber who comes round and pisses in your sink. German readers probably think this is an entertainment show, but in fact it’s done to expose ‘cowboy’ tradespeople. Jonathan seems like a pretty nice bloke and his band is harmless enough, but the song is as dull as you would expect from a group who Maitland himself describes as a "crap wedding and Bar Mitzvah song". You have to admire their front, but not the song.

Further intrigue is added by the group's singer being called Jackie Collins, but no, it’s not that one.


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