Love City Groove

Love City Groove

Love City Groove represented the United Kingdom in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, with a self-titled song after being the runaway winner in a public vote. The pop/rap song finished tenth with 76 points; and peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart. Love City Groove were formed by Producer/Songwriter, Stephen 'Beanz' Rudden - who at the time was a staff writer at Warner Chappell publishing company. Beanz had worked with fellow Warner Chappell writer Tatiana Mais also known as 'Q-Tee', producing one of her songs and requested that she come in and rap over a song he had written, called 'Sentence of Love'. Q-Tee believing that a male rapper was also needed, arrived at the studio with Jay Williams - a student at the BRIT School For Performing Arts & Technology. Beanz had written this song at his West Hempstead studio in December 1993 where he had met Paul Hardy, who later sang the now famous chorus, 'In the morning, when the sun shines'. In February 1994, Beanz took the rap parts and mixed them in with the new chorus track sung by Paul. He presented the song to his A&R rep, Dave Ambrose at Planet 3 records, which was to be released later that year, however Jonathan King heard it at BBC and requested that the song be submitted for 'A Song for Europe' in 1995. The final line up of the band consisted of Stephen Rudden, Jay Williams, Yinka Charles (aka 'Reason') and Paul Hardy.

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