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Christopher Megrath

The Liverpool Songbook performed at Eurovision Grand Final

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The Liverpool Songbook made up of five classic songs from the city was being performed at the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final.

Tonight's final interval act performance is a celebration of the host city’s incredible contribution to the world of pop and its rich musical heritage.

It brings together six iconic Eurovision acts from the past – Italy's Mahmood, Israel's Netta, Iceland's Daði Freyr, Sweden's Cornelia Jakobs, Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands – plus Liverpool's very own Sonia, celebrating 30 years since she came second at Eurovision in 1993.

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Opening the performance is Italy's 2019 representative Mahmood with a beautiful rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Ramping things up a notch is Israel's 2018 winner Netta singing the late Pete Burns' You Spin Me Round.

Icelandic favourite and 2020/2021 entry Daði Freyr performs Atomic Kitten's Whole Again, just days after he handed out free ice cream to fans in Liverpool's Williamson Square. Sweden's breakout 2022 star Cornelia Jakob's performs a strip back cover of Mel C's I Turn To You before Liverpool's own Sonia hits the stage with a vocally superb remaster of her 1993 track, Better The Devil You Know.

Closing the songbook with a hauntingly beautiful cover Of Gerry and the Pacemakers' You'll Never Walk Alone is the The Netherlands' 2019 winner, Duncan Laurence. The final performance sees all of the acts come together on stage to close the Liverpool Songbook before the votes come in.

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