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
Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 Cyprus was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, held in Bergen, Norway. For 1986, the Cypriot broadcaster, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, selected their candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest internally. They chose Elpida, then a very popular singer in Greece and the Greek diaspora, who already had experience at Eurovision, representing Greece in 1979. The song chosen to go with her was "Tora Zo," ("Now I Live"), composed by Peter Yiannakis, with lyrics by Yiannakis and Fivos Gavris. At the Contest in Bergen, Elpida was the fifteenth performer on stage, following Germany