Photo: Portrait of Sandie Shaw at the Astoria Hotel in Brussels (Belgium) on July 18, 1984 for the promotion of the 45 rpm ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Songwriter Chris Andrews talks about Sandie Shaw and Morrissey.

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 ...

Morrissey, the man who rescued Sandie's career when he coerced her into recording "Hand In Glove", once described her as "the most prolific figure in the entire history of British popular music".

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