Sandie Shaw in her dressing room at the Top of the Pops studio in 1964. She famously went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK in 1967 with Puppet on a String, a song she hated.

But that is, of course, part of the competition's charm. While entrants used to stick to the current fashions (see Lulu, Sandie Shaw and Olivia Newton-John), over the years, competitors have begun ...

Contributors include BEF's Martyn Ware, Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory, Radio 2's Paul Jones and Sandie Shaw, who sang on Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One and Elly Jackson of La Roux.