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Brown Ale

Brown Ale has been played on NTS in shows including The Uline Catalog w/ Calvin LeCompte, featured first on 5 July 2024. Songs played include Norman Service.

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Brown Ale (Stephenie De Sykes and Stuart Slater).

De Sykes and Slater wrote two UK Eurovision Song Contest entries, Co-Co's "The Bad Old Days" and Prima Donna's "Love Enough For Two" in 1978 and 1980 respectively.

In 1981, she teamed up with Angus Deayton to record a parody of that year's Eurovision winner "Making Your Mind Up" by Bucks Fizz. The song "It's only a wind up" by 'Brown Ale' did not make the UK Singles Chart.

De Sykes and Slater had one other song in the UK final, "All Around The World" in 1983, which was performed by Slater, ostensibly as a soloist, but with five musicians, including De Sykes on keyboards and vocals. The song placed fifth of the eight submissions. Notably, they were introduced by Terry Wogan in all of the broadcasts as "…the husband and wife team of…"

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Brown Ale

Brown Ale has been played on NTS in shows including The Uline Catalog w/ Calvin LeCompte, featured first on 5 July 2024. Songs played include Norman Service.

More than 1 group?

Brown Ale (Stephenie De Sykes and Stuart Slater).

De Sykes and Slater wrote two UK Eurovision Song Contest entries, Co-Co's "The Bad Old Days" and Prima Donna's "Love Enough For Two" in 1978 and 1980 respectively.

In 1981, she teamed up with Angus Deayton to record a parody of that year's Eurovision winner "Making Your Mind Up" by Bucks Fizz. The song "It's only a wind up" by 'Brown Ale' did not make the UK Singles Chart.

De Sykes and Slater had one other song in the UK final, "All Around The World" in 1983, which was performed by Slater, ostensibly as a soloist, but with five musicians, including De Sykes on keyboards and vocals. The song placed fifth of the eight submissions. Notably, they were introduced by Terry Wogan in all of the broadcasts as "…the husband and wife team of…"

Original source: Last.fm

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Norman Service
Brown Ale
Radioactive Records1981