Johnny Logan
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) singing his own composition Hold me now, which also rose to no. 2 in the UK chart. In the same year, he was in the best-sellers again with I'm not in love and also appeared in the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium.
In 1992 Johnny Logan completed a hat trick of Eurovision successes when he wrote Linda Martin's winning song for Ireland, Why me?. He also released a new solo-album, Endless emotion.
In the following year, he toured Norway in a concert version of Which Witch. This opera musical originated from that country but had flopped in the West End of London in late 1992. Logan played the leading role of Catholic Bishop Daniel in, what turned out to be, an immensely successful enterprise. Since then Johnny Logan has continued to sing all over the world and has even performed to an appreciative audience in the Vatican in Rome.
Hits of Johnny Logan:
* What’s another year
* Hold me now
* All I ever wanted
* I’m not in love
* Ginny come lately
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