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"Come Back" is a
single
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released by
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pop singer
Jessica Garlick
Jessica Julie Anne Garlick (born 1981) is an English-born Welsh pop singer. Garlick made her first steps into show business when she was 16. At that age, she won the Welsh final of BBC One's talent show '' Star for a Night''. The same year she a ...
which was the entry for
2002 Eurovision Song Contest.
Background
Composition
The song was written by Martyn Baylay then an airline pilot from Birmingham who prior to "Come Back" had made seven unsuccessful attempts to place a composition in the
UK national preselection round for Eurovision, also known as ''A Song for Europe''. Baylay would recall: "I had always tried to deliberately write a song for the Contest, I would try anything to get in, I studied form so to speak and tried to create the perfect contest song. None of this was successful, so when I thought I don't care about formula any more, I sent in 'Come Back' and it won." The demo of "Come Back" submitted to the BBC to consider for A Song for Europe featured vocalist
Bernie Nolan
Bernadette Therese Nolan (17 October 1960 – 4 July 2013) was an Irish actress, singer and television personality, formerly lead vocalist of the girl group the Nolans. She was the second youngest of sisters Anne, Denise, Maureen, Linda and ...
.
''A Song for Europe''
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's Eurovision executive producer Kevin Bishop contacted the station's Music & Media Partnership managing director Rick Blaskey who'd recall Bishop advising him that "Come Back" "was written by a pilot from Birmingham who doesn't know anyone in the business and needs some help". Blaskey said of "Come Back": "my favourite song in the competition, so the next day I met the writer and contacted
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anuary 21, 2002and recorded the song on Wednesday." "Come Back" was announced as the UK entrant for Eurovision 2002 following the March 3 television broadcast of ''A Song for Europe 2002'' on March 3, 2002, Garlick's performance of the song having solicited 68,000 televotes—40,000 more than second place.
At Eurovision 2002
Performance
On the night of the Eurovision competition, held on 25 May 2002 at the
Saku Suurhall Arena
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I ...
in
Tallinn
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,
Estonia
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, "Come Back" was performed second, following '
One with "
Gimme" and preceding 's
Manuel Ortega with "
Say a Word". For her Eurovision appearance, Garlick wore a dark red gown which was shredded from the waist down. She was accompanied on stage by five backing singers dressed in white.
Results
The final tally for "Come Back" was 111 points, which technically tied "Come Back" with the entrant "
Runaway" performed by
Sahlene
Anna Cecilia Sahlin (born 11 May 1976), known professionally as Anna Sahlene and formerly by the one-word stage name Sahlene, is a Swedish performer best known as a singer: she placed third at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with " Runaway" ...
for a third place behind the entrants from ("
7th Wonder" by
Ira Losco
Ira Losco M.Q.R. (born 31 July 1981) is a Maltese pop singer. Her career breakthrough came in 2002, when she represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song "7th Wonder". She placed second in the competition, Malta's best ...
) and the winning ("
I Wanna by
Marie N
Marija Naumova-Bullīta (born and professionally knows as Marija Naumova 23 June 1973) is a Latvian singer of Russian descent. Under the stage name Marie N, she sings a broad range of music ranging from pop to musical theatre and jazz, and has ...
). "Come Back" is often cited as having finished third at Eurovision 2002, although in the contest's official rankings "Runaway" is assigned third place and "Come Back" fourth, the preference for "Runaway" being due to its two first place votes (from Latvia and ) while "Come Back" received only one first place vote (from Austria).
Whether considered a third or fourth-place finisher, "Come Back" remains the highest ranked UK entrant at Eurovision since the #2 finish of "
Where Are You?" by
Imaani
Imaani Saleem (born Melonie Crosdale on 1 January 1972) is an English singer, best known for representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song " Where Are You". The song placed second in the contest ...
in 1998, "Come Back" being the first UK entrant to score a Top Ten finish at Eurovision since "Where Are You?". (The
UK entrant for Eurovision 2009: "
It's My Time" by
Jade Ewen
Jade Louise Ewen (born 24 January 1988) is a British singer, actress and a former member of the girl group Sugababes. She began her singing career in a girl group named Trinity Stone, which signed with Sony BMG in 2005 but disbanded in 2007 wit ...
would considerably best "Come Back"'s point total with a tally of 173 points: despite earning the most points for any UK entrant since the 227 points earned by "
Love Shine a Light
"Love Shine a Light" is a song by British rock band Katrina and the Waves. It represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997. It was released as a single on 28 April 1997 and was later included on the band's ninth studio a ...
" by
Katrina and the Waves
Katrina and the Waves were a British rock band widely known for the 1985 hit " Walking on Sunshine". They also won the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Love Shine a Light".
History Pre-history (1975–1980)
The band's earliest inc ...
afforded the last-named number a landslide
Eurovision 1997
The Eurovision Song Contest 1997 was the 42nd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held on 3 May 1997 at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (RTÉ) and prese ...
victory, "It's My Time"'s point tally only resulted in a #5 placing at
Eurovision 2009
The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the 54th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Moscow, Russia, following the country's victory at the with the song " Believe" by Dima Bilan. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union ...
.) The UK resurgence at Eurovision would be short-lived as at
Eurovision 2003 the UK entry "
Cry Baby" by
Jemini
Jemini were a British pop music, pop group from Liverpool, best known for scoring ''nul points'' and finishing in last place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with "Cry Baby (Jemini song), Cry Baby".
Early career
Chris Cromby and Gemma Abbey ...
would finish last with zero points.
Charts
"Come Back" debuted at the No. 13 on the
UK Singles Chart
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dated 25 May 2002: its strong showing on the 25 May night of competition for Eurovision 2002 failed to buoy the popularity of the track which dropped out of the Top 30 over the next three weeks, overall spending a total of six weeks in the chart.
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2002 songs
Eurovision songs of 2002
Eurovision songs of the United Kingdom