Lynch took part in the "" contest in 1962 with the song "There's Never Been A Girl", but failed to win through to represent the UK in the "Eurovision Song Contest". Lynch had more success in 1978, as a songwriter and producer. That year, his song "Don't Bother To Knock", written for the group Midnight, placed second in the contest. The same year he wrote '"Love Crazy", the theme used for "Carry On Emmannuelle", and "You Can't Fight It", the vocal version of the theme to the John Carpenter film "Assault on Precinct 13". In the mid-1960s he owned a record shop, the Kenny Lynch Record Centre in Walker's Court, Soho.