{"id":199876,"date":"2025-12-19T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/199876\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:06:10","slug":"johnny-logan-on-hold-me-now-i-was-sharing-a-house-with-five-students-in-wandsworth-common-i-didnt-have-any-money-i-hadnt-a-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/199876\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Logan on Hold Me Now: \u2018I was sharing a house with five students in Wandsworth Common. I didn\u2019t have any money. I hadn\u2019t a bean\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nHow We Made\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johnny Logan celebrates his 1987 Eurovision victory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SF Logan 1987.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Johnny Logan celebrates his 1987 Eurovision victory<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the great Irish singers \u2013 the Irish Elvis \u2013 Johnny Logan won the Eurovision in 1980 when he sang Shay Healy\u2019s What\u2019s Another Year. The world, it appeared, was at his feet. Then, for various reasons, it wasn\u2019t, and his career faltered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was a few years until he recovered, courtesy of a song about saying love and saying goodbye&#8230; a song that brought redemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How We Made Johnny Logan celebrates his 1987 Eurovision victory One of the great Irish singers \u2013 the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,6992],"class_list":["post-199876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}