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Hello, and welcome to The One Show, with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Tonight, we're joined by a musical legend, in his first television | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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interview since announcing he's representing the UK at Eurovision. | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
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The last waltz with you. I can't wait a moment more. | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
A man, whose name strikes fear into the heart of spell checkers | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
everywhere. It's Engelbert Humperdinck! | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Hi, Engelbert. Or should we be calling you something else? You | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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have various nicknames. Enge. Engel. Bert. Humpy. And did and | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
Elvis Presley having its name for you? No, he didn't, actually. I had | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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a nickname for him. I used to call him El. In your honour, we've | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
filled the studio with some of your biggest fans. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
We're all celebrating the fact that you've been chosen as the UK's | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
entry in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
It's day five of the One Show 1000. And we're almost halfway through | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
our 1,000 mile relay race across the British Isles. Last night, when | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
we caught up with Lucy, she was with the runners of Cairyan, in | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Scotland. Let's see how far the relay has got in the last 24 hours. | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
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Lucy, where are you? We are in a Northumberland now. Underneath | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
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Hadrian's Wall. Alice, hello. very excited. We are waiting for | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
your stint, because they are a little bit late, so we are warming | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
up. You are from a sports club. Newcastle University basketball | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
club. I am holding you back already. She is a proper athlete, good luck. | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
We have brilliant local support. We will meet a few of them in a moment. | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
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And some exciting news. It's just two months until Eurovision. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
And this year's contest is being held in Azerbaijan, who are | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
relative newcomers to Eurovision, only joining in 2008. Have you been | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
there? I have been all over Europe but I have never been there. Before | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
you go, you'll want learn a bit about the place. To save you buying | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the guidebook, we sent Alex Riley to get the lowdown on the country's | :03:44. | :03:53. | |
capital, Baku. And drum up a bit of local support for the Humperdinck. | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
After two flights, four time zones, 3,000 miles, I am in Abba's I shone. | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
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20 years after Abba's I shone gained independence, another | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
seismic events hit the country. The shock win at the Eurovision means | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Baku can for the first time I look forward to this. And maybe a bit of | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
that. I am here... They do you want to buy a carpet, your wife would | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
like it? I am in Baku to find out what the City has to offer the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Eurovision visitor. Because a country cannot vote for itself, I | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
want to persuade the people of Baku to get behind Engelbert! | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Engelbert is hoping to follow up in the footsteps of last year's winner. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
What advice would you give to the UK entry as he approaches this | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
year's competition? The same thing as he has done all these years, be | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
sincere with the public. Not pretending to be anyone else. That | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
is the secret. I have enlisted a massive Engelbert Humperdinck fan | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
to show me around. I have pictures here and even here, I adore him. | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
Her what are your favourite songs from Engelbert? Please, release me, | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
let me go. Will you take me on a tour of Baku's best bits? Let us go. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
We have the second tallest flagpole in the world. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
We have the best hot tea in the world. It is absolutely boiling! | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
We have the best carpets in the world. Hello, again. | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
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Alex, here, the best massage. In this club, this is the most | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
prestigious music venue, what better place to start our campaign. | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
Do you know who this man is? Engelbert Humperdinck. A Uefa and? | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
No This is Engelbert, will you vote for him? Personally, yes, I will | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
vote for him. Now, to head to the Parliament and one of the up and | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
coming politicians. Will you get behind the British entry? Engelbert | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Humperdinck? My colleagues support him as well. Maybe, in the | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
Parliament, you could be drinking from that? Yes, I love Engelbert. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
If I am going to persuade the millions of voters in this country | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
to vote for Engelbert, I will have to appeal to them directly. I have | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
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managed to get myself on one of the You are welcome, I greet you. | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
I would like to convince the people of -- that Engelbert is worthy of | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
your vote in the Eurovision Song contest. Now, all I have to do is | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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to get the show's popular presenter If it will help Engelbert, I will | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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Release me, my darling. Let me go. This went below the official | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Eurovision Song Contest entry. Check it out. Engelbert Humperdinck | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
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will be representing the United I have done anything I can, it is | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
up to Engelbert to secured that victory for Britain. I might go and | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
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buy a carpet now, I wonder where I That was wonderful. I want to give | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
him a hug. He went to all that trouble. It is amazing what he went | :08:49. | :08:58. | |
through, so that Q. When you go over there, you will sound even | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
better than him. We even have these in the studio. We caught up with | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
your biggest fan, Toonzala Gakhraman, the tour guide who | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
recorded a special message for you. I am your number one fan here. | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
Please, come and sing, Please Release Me, let me go. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Lovely, thank you. Engelbert, were you initially | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
surprised when you are contacted? was very surprised. My son, who | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
manages May, he told me the BBC had approached him to ask if I would | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
represent the country in the Song contest. I thought it was a great | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
honour and thanked them for their confidence in me. I will do the | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
best I can with what I have got. It really is a great song. Great | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
lyrics and a great melody. Actually, it has such a strong melody it can | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
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be played with just strings. Shall # If you love someone, follow your | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
heart. Cos love comes once, if you're lucky enough. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
# Though I'll miss you forever, the hurt will run deep. | :10:25. | :10:35. | |
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Brilliant. I love selling ballads. It is all in the performance. On | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
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the night, I shall perform it the best. Matt does love it, he has | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
been singing along. Have you heard that you are first | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
to sing? Is that a good thing? am singing first? It did worry me | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
at the beginning. It is like a horse race. You have to stay in | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
front. I will try to do that as much as I possibly can. I think it | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
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is a good thing. The last time we went first, Brotherhood of Man won. | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
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It could be a good omen. And all of your fans are behind you. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Engelbert's deep voice has been serenading us three years. Having | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
spared a thought for the sides that goes behind those dulcet tones? | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Carrie Grant explains why there is more to sink deeper than hitting | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
the loan notes. -- singing. Music is very subjective. Some | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
people might like that. That was lovely. | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
But what I sometimes yearn for is a rich deep singing voice, it could | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
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be melancholic, playful or moving. # The needle tears a hole. | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
So how do we make that Boyce? There is quite a lot to it so I will need | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
some sides have to explain. What a lovely rich sound. It is | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
about the tone and sound of the boys. Where does that tone come | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
from? That is where the signs comes in. Paul is professor here at the | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
University of Southampton. He recorded an identical note, using a | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
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guitar. Using a trombone. And using a sinner. -- singer. Each of the | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
three has a distinctive character. How can the same note sound so | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
different? The clever computer software can give us a picture of | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
the sounds to show us what is going The trombone, guitar and voice, all | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
playing the same note. But they look completely different. You can | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
see them playing the same note because they are at the same pitch. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
Then you get this harmonic which is generated by each instrument. Some | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
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Ambler fly -- amplified certain frequencies. In some they are | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
missing completely. When someone is hitting a note, they are actually | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
hitting a lot of notes? A lot of frequencies, yes, and some more | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
than others. Take out the weaker harmonics, there are three | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
different spheres -- the three sound the same. That is the | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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It is the harmonics that make them sound like a guitar, a trombone, | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
and a voice. It is Barry White's harmonics that gave him his deep | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
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characteristic voice, even when he was singing quite high. This | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
bizarre looking exercise helps music student helped her own and | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
range when it comes to singing. He knows what was going on inside | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
Barry White's head when he made that sound. Genetically, he is | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
naturally endowed with vocal apparatus that allows him to have a | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
deep, rich sound. The body and the head act as a case to amplify that | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
sound. On top of that, the facial postures work together to shape | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
these cavities to makes sounds. That suggests we can learn how to | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
do this. We it is possible for anyone to resonate widely and | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
create a large rich sound across whatever register they have got. | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
Most of us can find parts of our voice that they did know was there. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
Whilst these singers are all hitting the same note, they are all | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
individual because their anatomy and techniques are slightly | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
different. Sometimes, hitting the loan note is not always about | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
singing low, it is about using a different tone. Sometimes it is | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
just an illusion. Low note saw something you really | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
indulge in, Engelbert? Yes, when I go down low, petards a sexy turn to | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
your voice. And you were saying you have never had a singing lesson. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
have never had a lesson, are they have chosen someone for this | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
contest who has never had a singing lesson. I am sure that is the same | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
for previous contestants. I have played all over the world. If I | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
play in Russia, and people don't speak the language very much, they | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
sing along with me. How do they know the song? You have sold over | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
150 million records which is incredible, but it was quite tough | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
at the beginning, wasn't it? Yes, it took a long time to get there. I | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
worked clubs and places around the country, gaining experience. It is | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
a wonderful apprenticeship and I hope it will show during this | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
performance. During those tough times, did you think it was time to | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
get the singing lesson? No, the funny thing is I went to a lot of | :17:40. | :17:49. | |
auditions and I had a lot of "thank you, we will call you" and I never | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
gave up because I thought the first condition of communication is the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
willingness to take rejection. I have taken a lot of rejection in my | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
life but I kept knocking on the door until it opened. A lot of your | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
success is due to the fact you changed your name to Engelbert | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
Humperdinck. It was down to my manager, who had great foresight | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
about making you a big star. He did change my name. When he first told | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
me, I thought it was a group, it was so long. Did you think it would | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
work? Listen, when you are starving singer, they will give you any name | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
and you will take it. It proved to be worthwhile, they called me | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
pumpernickel and Humpty dump tee. Even when I use this name, Dean | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
Martin, I used to have dinner with him and he never called me Engel | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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Birt. He called me Humpy Bumpy. What do you call him? When you | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
first became famous, did you meet anyone who left you star-struck? | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
can't hear her. Did you meet anyone who left you star-struck? Frankie | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
Vaughan was one of the greatest human beings I have ever come | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
across in my life. I think I talk a lot of lessons from watching him | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
work. He was a great professional man. I think the other person whom | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
I learned a great deal from was Elvis, watching him work, because | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
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he had charm, he was charismatic. There you are. Lucy would have the | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
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same effect on you, where are you? We are right behind the runners | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
here. He has just finished his smile. Thank you so much. Since we | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
met last night, they have got us to where we are now. Here is what they | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
have been up to over the last 24 hours. The runners have been | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
completing the final stages of the 357 mile trek across Scotland but | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
the final trek is proving to be crawling with steep hills. I am not | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
looking forward to the final hill down the road. And busy roads. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
triathlon run it is taking the mile in his stride, but his daughter | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
Rachel is really worried about hers. I am not a runner, that is why my | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
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dad is going to have to run with me. Come on, you are doing well. | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
wasn't going to get up the big hill at the end. She has not done much | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
training so that was good. final stretch is now in sight. With | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
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Nigel crossing the border into England. Fish -- a big thank you to | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
all of our runners, and to everyone here tonight. We have Trinity | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
School, and we have got, ladies and gentlemen, the sun shines steel | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
band. It is not just Sport Relief runners we have here tonight, we | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
have some incredible news. We have both been chosen to carry the | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
Olympic torch through Carlisle. fantastic, how excited will you be? | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
I can't wait. They also have a chance of getting into the London | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
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Paralympic Games, fingers crossed. Two other ladies doing their bit - | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
May I remove your head? How are you doing underneath murk? I am very | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
hot. How will it be on Sunday it in this outfit? We will start by | :22:34. | :22:43. | |
trotting, and end up galloping. I speak to your back end? Are you | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
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OK? I am very well. I will be fine, it is hard work, but it is for a | :22:53. | :23:02. | |
good cause. That is all from us today. We are going to have cut, | :23:02. | :23:11. | |
and fingers crossed in 24 hours' time we will see you in Yorkshire. | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
Excellent, thank you. Good luck to all of the runners. Get your | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
donations in. If you want to get up-to-date with | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
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the latest runners, go to the BBC website. To make a donation now, | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
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The text will cost �5, plus your standard network charge. The whole | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
�5 goes to Sport Relief. For more information, go to the BBC website. | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
Time to go back to school now. This is a boarding-school with the | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
difference in Norfolk. Boarding school used to be seen as | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
a place where posh children were sent by their wealthy parents, but | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
these days the state sector is getting in on the act. State | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
schools are witnessing a surge in popularity, with 88 across the UK | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
and several more due to open soon. They have been called education's | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
best kept secret, so why are a growing number of parents choosing | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
to send their children here? Founded over 60 years ago, Wyndham | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
College is one of the UK's state boarding schools. It may be a state | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
school, but that does not necessarily mean it is a cheap | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
option. The education is free, but the average fees for boarding can | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
be up to �12,000 a year, so do these children think it is money | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
well spent? It gives us a lot of opportunities. You name it, they | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
have got it. You have to do your own washing and ironing and it is | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
good skills for future life. I do miss my parents, but when you have | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
your friends around you don't think about it. I call my mother every | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
night because she misses me a lot. This 12 year-old is one of the | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
newest pupils at the school. It has been really good because I have had | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
my friends here to comfort me when I am upset. Is that when you have | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
been used to being here? Yes. what do you miss most about your | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
home? My bed. This bed is not that bad. No, but my bed at home was | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
really good. Her parents both work full-time and her mother was | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
concerned about the impact this was having on family life. Gymnastic, | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
piano lessons, trying to fit that in around work. My husband works | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
all over the county, so it was a nightmare. As juggling work and | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
home life became more difficult, the family decided weekly boarding | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
would be a good solution. One of the things we considered when we | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
made the choice was actually how much quality time were we spending | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
with the children in the week? Because a lot of it was all real, | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
on to the next thing, we will be late for school. For us, it was the | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
right choice. Experts believe the numbers growing because of | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
increased working hours and the rise in families where both parents | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
work. Any concern or guilt about how the child is looked after is | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
much alleviated at a state boarding school when you know there will be | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
activities, friends, and that makes it much easier for a working woman | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
to give the commitment that employers expect. Hundreds of | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
pupils here stay during the week and go home at weekends. | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
Traditionally it was about sending your child away to boarding school | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
for three months at a time, and that is definitely not the way it | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
is seen now. It is an idea of complementing family life, often | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
during the week. We don't pretend we are doing the same job as | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
parents, but what we do do is provide them with a strong | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
community feel. We are still talking about fees, so does that | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
mean you're excluding children from poorer families? �8,500 see it is | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
good value but it is a lot of money to find, and we know that. We work | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
with charitable trust to make it available to poorer families. | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
mother feels it makes a difference to the family's weekends. Less | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
pressured at home because mostly homework is done so we can | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
concentrate on enjoying ourselves. The children come home happy and go | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
back to school happy. She hoped her other daughter will also go to | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
state boarding school. It is a good all-round situation for working | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
families and I think 11 is a good age to go. It is the way forward | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
for a lot of parents. On that note, how will you school yourself for | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
the next two months before Eurovision? I have eight concerts | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
so I am going to put the song in my show, and learn it like the back of | :29:02. | :29:12. | |
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