Every Loser Wins Every Loser Wins "Every Loser Wins" is a 1986 song performed by English actor and singer Nick Berry. Written and produced by Simon May, Stewart James and Bradley James, the song was heavily featured in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" throughout the summer of 1986, sung by Berry's character Simon "Wicksy" Wicks and his band, The Banned. When released as a single, "Every Loser Wins" became a success, spending three weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart in October and November 1986. It was the second biggest-selling single in the UK that year (after "Don't Leave Me This
The Loser the form of a continuous first person interior monologue, with no paragraph indentations and a high number of run-on sentences, obsessive repetitions, odd and unexplained uses of italics, and alienating leaps (without transition) from verb tense to verb tense. The Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned a one-act chamber opera by David Lang based on the novel, which had its premiere in September 2016. The Loser The Loser is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1983. The novel does not take place at the time of the events recounted, but at the time its narrator recalls them.