Johnny Logan leapt into the international spotlight with a hand-down victory for Ireland in the 1980 Eurovision song Contest, after which his winning song, What’s another year? quickly shot to no. 1 in the UK chart and sold three million copies. At the time, many people assumed that he was Irish but, in fact, he was born in Frankstown, near Melbourne, Australia, on 13 May 1954. His real name is Sean Patrick Michael Sherrard and his father, the renowned Irish tenor, Patrick O'Hagen, once sang for President Kennedy in the White House.
In 1984 he wrote the runner-up in the Eurovision Song Contest Terminal 3 sung by Linda Martin and in 1987 Johnny made a triumphant personal comeback to the competition when he won for the second time (no-one else had ever won it twice as a performer) sin...
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