#STORYOFMYLIFE – Day Two with Richard from EI

In this series, we’ll be talking to someone and asking them to pick five songs (over five days) that mean something to them. These may not be their top five songs of all time – merely songs that attach to a specific memory or time in their life.

We continue this series with Sarah from Eurovision Ireland. What’s her second choice, and what’s the story behind it?

Charlotte Nilsson – Take me to your heaven

The Eurovision Song Contest 1999 took place on 29 May 1999, which was my wedding day. I remember being upset and a bit annoyed that my then future husband and I had arranged our wedding on this day because I would miss seeing the contest live, having never missed the live show since 1974! We were also due to go on honeymoon the next day and therefore wouldn’t see the video recording I had set up (no BBC iPlayer then!), so I called my son the next day, who was staying with his grandparents while we were away to ask him the result. He told me that Sweden had won.

Once home, the first thing I did was watch the contest on the recording I had done and somehow felt a connection with the song because of the significance of the day on which it had won. I will always look back with fondness every time I hear Take me to your heaven.

If you have five songs that really mean something to you, drop us a line with them and the stories behind them, and you could feature soon.

Author: John Stanton

Source: Eurovision Ireland