1986 in British music cover of the disco song "Don't Leave Me This Way". The band included singer Jimmy Somerville who had previously enjoyed success with Bronski Beat, and later started a solo career. The Christmas number one single was something of a surprise, a re-issue of Jackie Wilson's 1957 single "Reet Petite". Wilson had died in 1984, but the song been re-issued after being used in a television advert for Levi's, with a new video made of a Claymation version of Wilson. Having first been released 29 years earlier, it broke the record for the longest time between a single being released and
Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 Austria was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, held in Bergen, Norway. For 1986, the Austrian broadcaster, Österreichischer Rundfunk, selected their candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest internally. They chose Timna Brauer, daughter of well-known painter Arik Brauer, and one-half of the world music/jazz duo, "Timna Brauer & Elias Meiri Ensemble," to represent Austria at Bergen. The song chosen to go with her was "Die Zeit ist einsam" ("Time is lonely"), composed by Peter Janda with lyrics by Peter Cornelius. At the Contest in Bergen, Brauer was the sixteenth performer on stage,