I'm Never Giving Up

Infobox Single
Name = I'm Never Giving Up


Artist = Sweet Deams| from Album =
Released = March, 1983
Format = 7" single
B-side = "Two Way Mirror"
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Genre = Pop
Length = 3.00
Label = Arista Records
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Certification =
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NoReviews = yesInfobox ESC entry
artist = Bobby McVay, Carrie Gray, and Helen Kray
song = flagicon|United Kingdom I'm Never Giving Up
country = United Kingdom
year = 1983
as = Sweet Dreams
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language = English
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composer = Ron Roker, Jan Pulsford, and Phil Wigger
lyricist = Roker, Pulsford, and Wigger
conductor = John Coleman
place = 6th
points = 79
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1983uk from Diggiloo Thrush]
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prev = One Step Further
prev_link = One Step Further
next = Love Games
next_link = Love Games (Belle and the Devotions song)

"I'm Never Giving Up", written and composed by Ron Roker, Jan Pulsford, and Phil Wigger, was the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1983, performed by the trio Sweet Dreams.

Sweet Dreams won the right to perform at Munich by winning the UK national final, "A Song for Europe", where they were the first act to perform. At Munich, the song was performed third on the night, after Norway's Jahn Teigen with "Do Re Mi", and before Sweden's Carola Häggkvist with "Främling." At the end of judging that evening, "I'm Never Giving Up" took the sixth-place slot with 79 points. [ [http://www.diggiloo.net/?info.1983uk I'm never giving up - info - Diggiloo Thrush ] ] Sweden awarded the UK its only 12 points of the night.

The song was sung up-tempo and related to the story of the singers "never giving up" in their quest to win back their lover, and restoring their love "the way it was before." The trio was dressed in exercise gear, with McVay colour-coordinated in blue, and Gray and Kray in red and yellow accessories, respectively. Also unique that year was their use of stools as props, sliding off them at one point to signify a key change in the melody.

After Eurovision, the song was placed at #21 on the UK Singles Chart. It would become Sweet Dreams' only hit before they disbanded at the end of 1983.

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