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Scott Fitzgerald (born William McPhail, 28 April 1948, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, who had his biggest success in the 1970s and later represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Fitzgerald's greatest success was with "If I Had Words", a duet with Yvonne Keeley and also featuring the St. Thomas More School Choir, which reached number three on the UK Singles Chart in 1978. It sold more than one million copies. This version was later used in the 1995 film, Babe, which went on to win a FCCA Award for Best Original Music and grossed $254,134,910 worldwide.
Fitzgerald also starred in the musical film Never Too Young To Rock, which featured himself, Mud, The Glitter Band and The Rubettes.
In 1988, he was chosen to sing the UK's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Go". It was written and composed by Julie Forsyth, herself a former member of singing group Guys 'n' Dolls and daughter of the entertainer Bruce Forsyth. Forsyth joined Fitzgerald on stage at the contest in Dublin, alongside her husband Dominic Grant (also of Guys n' Dolls) and Des Dyer (formerly of Jigsaw), to perform backing vocals. Ronnie Hazlehurst conducted the live orchestration. Fitzgerald came second in the contest, by one point, to Switzerland's entry performed by Celine Dion. According to author and contest historian, John Kennedy O'Connor, in his book The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, this was the closest contest yet, the winning margin being 0.73%. "Go" reached #52 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1988.
In a Daily Mirror article, Fitzgerald was said to have pleaded with the BBC to let him forego the Song For Europe 1989 contest, and be selected automatically, in order to try again at winning the Eurovision Song Contest. Fitzgerald and Keeley reunited in 1992 for the single "United We Stand", which was released on Reb Bullet Records. They were both featured on the Babe soundtrack as the opening song. The soundtrack was released in the United States on 15 August 1995.
Fitzgerald still tours in Europe and throughout the world.
His son, Ki Fitzgerald, is a classical crossover singer, called the Bad Boy of Opera. He was also an original member of the UK boy band, Busted, then using the stage name of Ki McPhail.
Yvonne Keeley (born Yvonne Paay, 6 September 1952) is a Dutch pop music singer. She is the sister of Patricia Paay. Her surname is often misspelt as Keely.
She began her career as a session singer in the music industry in London. She was the girlfriend of Steve Harley of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, and sang on the 1975 hit, "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)". She also worked with Madeline Bell and Vicki Brown.
Most notably she performed as a duet with Scott Fitzgerald on the song "If I Had Words", which reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1978. It was also a hit in Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia and sold more than a million copies.
Keeley was part of the group the Star Sisters which was popular in the Netherlands during the 1980s.
She currently works as radio presenter with the Dutch regional broadcaster Radio Rijnmond.
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